A Mother's Prayer

Hello everybody!

It's good to be back and bloggin' again. Today's post is a thought that has grown on me these last few days and which has ultimately culminated to this idea: A Mother's Prayer.

It begins with understanding love. Love as defined as a feeling of deep care or concern for another (disregarding any crazy Hollywood definition). Love is a feeling that fills our souls (body and spirit) with a wonderful amount of joy and otherwise good endorphins. This love is known to bring peace to the soul, healing to wounds (both seen and unseen). It is a power that can change the world and can change the heart. I personally believe that the latter has a more precious value. Because a changed heart will change the world.

How does this love occur? It occurs when someone of their own free will chooses to love you. This person makes this decision regardless of who you are. Regardless of your faults, your defaults, your habits, your ticks, etc. Because of this love they will do what they see best for you. Sometimes even disregarding their own needs to serve you. The best thing about this love is that: They Choose to Love You. That would be my post title but that is not the end of this post.

There are many levels of love. I do not plan on describing all of these levels. The one that I want to focus on is the love of a mother. A mother will do anything for their children. A mother chooses to carry us into the world. Now we live in a world that would teach us that motherhood has little or no importance. However I still believe firmly in the importance of parents. I was blessed to have a mother and father (and many others) who cared about the way I was raised. A mother who loves her children is an incredible force to the world.

How can a mother help raise her children? It's hard enough to have to raise four children, let alone four children on your own. What can you do? What would you do? Having to support the family, run the family, raise the kids, and do everything that a family has to do. All this pressure for one person suffering human syndrome would be overwhelming and could seem impossible. I know when things seem impossible that I pray. I know that asking God helps. So what does my mother do?

I don't really know. But I imagine. And this is what I imagine. A young woman recently married praying in her heart that she will be able to raise her children well and to raise them in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then as her world falls apart and she has to take responsibility for her family she prays even harder that this will work out. She puts her whole heart and soul into her trust to Someone that she has never seen. Whose voice she has only heard and Whom she knows will help her no matter what. She gives it all to Him.

So what happens next? She gets off her knees and goes to work. She deals with the difficulties of raising children. The fights, the heart breaks, the joys and everything in-between. And how does she survive? She puts all her doubts and concerns on pause because she has asked the Lord to help everything turn out all right. Acting, trusting, and loving. That is how she did it.

So she raised four children. The last one receiving the full weight of these stresses. The youngest being the one who lives through it all for the longest time. And how does the youngest feel? The youngest feels incredibly lucky. He has learned and witnessed this incredible love of a mother putting her full trust in her prayers and thus in the Lord. He has felt the power of her prayers. The prayers that protected him while she was away. The prayers that allowed him to take the stands that he would need in order to become the person that she would want him to be. These are the prayers that changed my heart. The prayers that make me love my mom so much. This is a tribute to you and to all the great mother's out there who put or will put their whole hearts into trusting the Lord and loving their children.

I know you love me Mom, no matter what. And I love you too, no matter what!

Brandon