Mommies

I do not work on Tuesday's and Thursday's so " the bean" and i get to go out and do things. We have gone to see animals in the swamp, continued our story time date, ran errands and today the park. Wow! How much fun it is to devote all of my day to him.

With all these ventures I have run across so many mommies. My thought is that all mommies fall into two categories, mommies who teach and mommies who ignore. I think all mommies fall into both categories at one time or another. and i think (probably optimistically) that all mommies love in one form or another.

There is one Mommy that I want to talk about for a minute. This Mommy was unable to have children for a very long time. One of her passions in life was to be a mother. She yearned deep in herself to be a mother. She was taunted because she was unable to bear children. She would pray every year to become a mother. One year her prayer became, Lord if your give your servant a child, i will devote him to you for the rest of his life. Well shortly after, this woman became pregnant and had a son. The son was then given up and devoted to the service of the Lord. This mother gave her child away so that he could be raised to completely, whole heartedly serve the Lord. She now would only see him once a year.

Wow! How amazing is that? She gave her son for the Lord's service. When I was reading again about this spectacular woman I began to think, would i give my son up? Really, in all honesty, would i give him up to the Lord and only see him once a year? So I came to the thoughts that my answer would depend on my relationship with the Lord. Do i truly trust him, do I truly want to follow his plan, do I believe he has my future, and the future of my child? Wow! My brain hurts, but mostly my heart at times when i really ponder. Will I give my child to the Lord's control. I know we did the baby dedication, but was my heart truly in that "service" or was I just walking through the motions?

So who is the Mommy i was speaking of? Her name is Hannah and you can find her in 1 Samuel. I pray i can always follow her example of devoted my child(ren) to the Lord's service.