Today is my first Mother's Day, and although you're not home with me right now, I'm crediting you for making this the best day I can remember.
I'm also crediting you for teaching your mom ten very important things in the past nine months:
- God is a genius. I didn't realize just how smart He is until you started growing inside me; then it became quite clear. There is no other way to explain the miracle of pregnancy and childbirth than by grand design.
- I didn't think it was possible to love something or someone as much as I love you.
- I look at you and can't believe I am responsible for creating something so blatantly perfect. How could I, with all my faults, make something so wonderful?
- Your daddy is going to be an amazing father. And he already adores you more than I ever could have expected or imagined.
- Your dad & I have an incredible marriage. We are capable of handling a lot, and the reason is that we have each other.
- Your grandmother loves me in a way that no one else ever could. It is a pure, primal, selfless, compassionate, unconditional love that could never end despite my actions or age, and only now am I beginning to fully understand it.
- Things don't always work out the way we expect, but God knows what He is doing, even when we don't.
- The world seemed much safer before you arrived. I realize now that everytime your grandparents worried about me or told me to "be careful," it's because they saw me as completely vulnerable in a big, scary world and because they would do absolutely ANYTHING to prevent me from getting hurt.
- I realize that someday you will be old enough to be your own person, hold your own opinions, and make your own decisions, but I will forever struggle with the concept that you are not "mine" and that I will one day have to let you go.
- Although it's seemingly light years away, that day will come too soon.
Love,
Mom
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