I was having Easter Dinner with the boys when a stranger approached the table and said, “I just wanted you to know that you have beautiful goels. You are very blessed.” She had a heavy accent and, while I didn’t have any idea what “goels” meant, it was pretty clear by her mannerisms that she meant my children. The exchange gave me goosebumps. I thanked her and went on about the day. Although, that word, “goel”, stuck in my head.
Last week the word appeared again in my Bible study. It is a Hebrew word which means “kinsman redeemer”. It strikes me how accurately this stranger described my relationship with my boys in just one obscure word. I was a slave to many things before I had children. I didn’t understand love. Success had a completely different definition. I was in bondage to escapism, pride, fear and control. The birth of my children was the beginning of the change.
“Our first son was born at a time when I didn’t pray very much. However, in meeting him, I felt overwhelming anxiety that I was going to mess him up. I prayed, fervently, one single prayer, ‘God, I will do whatever You tell me to do, but I don’t want to mess him up. If I get only one thing right in life, please let it be my role as a Mother.’ He answered that prayer and continues to answer it every day. The ironic thing is that being a good Mother means only one singular thing, being the best, most authentic version of Me.” – Divorce with Joy – A Divorce Attorney’s Guide to Happy Ever After
I am immeasurably grateful to my children for teaching me who I am. To all the Mothers out there, lift your head high. We are all in this together. We all have days when we feel like we are certainly making mistakes, that we disappoint our children and could be better Mothers. But in reality, we are a couple, quite literally, made in Heaven. We were chosen for each other. It is the one choice in life God didn’t leave up to us. He chose the Mother/Child relationship perfectly. So, this Mother’s Day, treat yourself, hug your babies and take solace in this, all your child really needs is the unconditional love of his Mother.
“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.” — Kate Samperi
The greatest thing she’d learned over the years is that there’s no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.
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