I erased this when posting Finn's pictures! I still mess up this blogging thing! I am re-posting because a couple of people were wondering where it went to! I wrote this after several frustrating things my kids did and God helped to understand a little better my vocation as a mom.
As moms I have decided that we do live a very real poverty/detachment in a very real way each and every one of us each and every day. We live poverty/detachment on daily basis when your clothes get ruined by food, blood, throw-up (fill in your own bodily fluid here)! You cannot be attached to any of your clothes! You must have a spirit of poverty and gladly give them up for love of your children. Secondly it is lived in nicks in the hardwoods, stains on the carpet hand prints on the walls writing on furniture writing on walls writing on (you can put your own object here!) You must have a spirit of poverty to give up wearing white or allowing your children to wear white and you have to maintain a spirit of detachment with some of your children’s adorable clothing! How often does it happen that your favorite pieces or outfits get ruined? Those are the days when you have your boys dressed in their nicest outfits and a big cool hill appears in your day and you turn away for second and there are the boys rolling down the hill and of course what do they have but grass stains! AHHHHH
Onto the second point, moving away from materialistic things we live it within the confines of our day with our time. Our time is not our own. Our children’s cries and needs demand of us at moments when we are not ready or wanting to give of ourselves to someone else. The sound of the hungry or poopy or hurt baby crying and our response is our poverty/detachment lived in every second of our life. The fighting children needing guidance at such inconvenient times…it would be so much easier to just ignore!
Yes moms we do in fact live it and if you are cutting coupons or budgeting and sticking to it you live it even more. If you are trying to figure out how your baby or toddler can use fewer diapers in one day without getting a diaper rash you are living it! Hand me downs, leftover mystery meat pies and mystery meals filled with everything that will go bad in the fridge! Who would have ever thought God builds it right into our vocation. As moms we don’t have a chose as to whether or not it will be demanded of us, but we do have a chose as to how we will respond. Will we embrace it and learn to live and love it or will we fight it hard and let it make us miserable. The happiest moms I know accept and then even come to love it! So let us rise up and learn to live in it and then let us accept it and then we must come to love it!
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