In honor of Mother's Day, I'd like to share with you one of my favorite quotes from my new favorite book. The main character (aptly named Katy) has just given birth to their 3rd child in the middle of a very trying season of life. A well-meaning friend pities Katy for having "one more mouth to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing." Here is Katy's response:“This is one side of the story to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in God's name, I will make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, her life-long prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!”
May this always be my response to motherhood! I am truly grateful for the gift of my daughter and pray that she would feel herself always welcome to my time, strength, health, care, and prayers.
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