Motherhood is movement.
It's up and down movement as we
pick up babies and socks and crayons and cheerios,
take laundry upstairs and down,
sit down and jump up ten times during dinner,
get up five times at night to solve nightmares and hunger and sickness
It's sideways movement as we go
from helping with homework to stirring the dinner,
from tucking one child in bed to tucking in the next,
from reading a story on the couch to doing crafts at the table,
from school to soccer to scouts to dance
It's circular, repetitive movement as we
do the same dishes and clean up the same messes
make the same favorite foods and read the same books
answer the same questions and mediate the same spats
Sometimes we wonder
Are we getting anywhere with all this movement?
Is there any forward movement involved
in the side-to-side, the up-and-down, the circular?
The up-and-down, back-and-forth, repetitive motion of water
wears off sharp edges
creates paths
exposes
soothes
gives life
The up-and-down, back-and-forth, repetitive motion of motherhood
refines us
as it wears off our rough spots
creates us
as it exposes our strengths and weaknesses
soothes us
as we learn that our best is good enough
gives us life
as we give life to others
and propels us ever forward
in a twisty, zig-zag path
towards the people we're really meant to be
I am so blessed to be a mom and had a great mothers day with my mom and mother in law and sweet kids!
