Pains of Motherhood

Today, is a more serious post. There is so much evil in the world today. It is sad the amount of selfishness and instant gratifications that have such eternal effects. Families are hurting families, chidren are hurting children and mankind is offending mandkind. In life, it is always difficult to have an eternal perspective, yet that eternal perspective could prevent so much evil and travesty in the world today. I want to do everything I can to protect my children from these wiles of the world. Everyday, we work to teach them, guide them and protect them. Unfortunately, we cannot protect them in every situation and for that we have to hope we have armed them with the right tools to protect themselves. I am SO grateful that our loving Heavenly Father has given us the tools and the armor of righteousness but we must arm ourselves everyday. We have been given the power of prayer, the scriptures, and the Holy Ghost to guide us. In addition, we have been armed with motherly instinct. I view it as a grace of God to arm us with such intuition. It is though our heart strings are attached directly to our children. When they ache, we ache. When they hurt, we hurt. When they rejoice, we too rejoice. Sometimes such small offenses can cause such great emotions and larger offenses can cause such eternal destruction. It is unfair that we pay the price of pain among our children for other people's selfishness. Your childrens' pain can be an unsurmountable cross we are sometimes asked to bear. A cross that seems will never lighten. However, we must remember that He paid the price for all of us. We all have incredible worth to Him. He suffered, bled and died for all our sins and our pains. I just hope and pray that all of those mothers fighting so hard to protect your children will remember to arm not only themselves but their children with the armor of righteousness. May we all be protected from the inevitable evil among us. “The terrible things that happen to us in life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight. There is no rope to hang on to, it seems. Mothers can soothe children during those times, through their reassurance. No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childgood goes with her. Memories are very different and cannot soothe you the same way her touch did.” ― Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap