05/10/2026
I know Mother’s Day can bring up a slew of emotions for many. I remember my first Mother’s Day. Christian was under 3 months old and his twin, my daughter Eve, passed a day after her birth. She passed from a condition called Trisomy 13. I’m still her mother. I felt like half of me was missing and the picture was incomplete.
Beautiful vessels of life hear me-
If your bassinet is empty you are still a mother.
If your baby didn’t make it to birth passing in utero, you are still a mother.
If your baby never took their first breath after hours of labor and woke up in the arms of our Savior you are still a mother.
The Bible says that He knit us together in our mother’s womb- look at the scriptures below!
Psalm 139:13–16 says we were knit together in our mother’s womb — formed with intention, detail, and divine care.
Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…” — meaning God’s knowledge of us came before our earthly beginning.
If your adult children are prodigals and staying away from you, you are still a mother.
If you prayed for more arrows in your quiver but only have one, your motherhood still matters.
If you adopted children and loved then enough to give them a better life, you’re a mother.
If you care deeply for others and nurture them, you have a mother’s heart.
If you went through IVF you are still a mother.
Motherhood is not defined by what we lost, or blood relations, or even how we are treated. It’s about what we fought for, believed for, bled for and sacrificed for: our baby!
There is nothing a mother won’t do to protect and provide for her child or children.
For me, the desire to have children had me begging and weeping like Hannah. I remember all the tests and disappointments of negative. Here we are 14 years later!
And now mothering of teens in a new level unlocked.
While motherhood isn’t for everyone and that’s okay, Motherhood is indeed a journey, a beautiful and fulfilling journey that deserves to be perceived as the gift that it is.
Happy Mother’s Day!
I pray you look in the mirror at whatever stage in motherhood you are, and recognize how important you are,to those around you. Not because of what you do for others, but for who you are as a person.
