The "Perfect" Mother
When Christina Paulsson shared these thoughts with me, and it occurred that her experience represents the experience of many others and the hope she expresses here might also resonate. Guest post author Christina Paulsson, her mother, and sister. I'm sitting here in my PJs at 4:50 a.m. contemplating Mother's Day. Remembering Mother's Days with hymns of motherhood and sermons on Proverbs 31. Of all the mothers standing up... getting prayed for... being handed carnations. I remember as a little girl being in awe of all of the perfect mommies with their curly headed darlings and longing for the day I could be among them. I think we've got it all wrong. What about the mothers who definitely don't have it all together? What about the dads, daughters, and grandmothers who are left to raise the family when mom is gone? What about those who long to be mothers and never will be? The ones who have lost little ones. John Newton, who lost his mother as a boy and who is famous ...