THE LANGUAGE OF MOTHERHOOD
Do you remember seeing the Women’s March immediately after the election of President Trump? I remember being so grieved by hearing the filthy and course language shouted by so many of the women. It was the absolute opposite of womanhood. A rejection of femininity.
I have been thinking of some of the beautiful words that describe motherhood. Can we remind ourselves of some of them?
Blessing, breastfeeding, compassionating (I’ll explain further down), conceiving, consoling, comforting, cuddling, delighting, embracing, encouraging, gestating, guarding, guiding, giving selflessly, keeping watch, loving, leading, longsuffering, mothering, mending broken hearts, making lovely memories, ministering, nurturing, nursing, nourishing, nesting, praying, protecting, shepherding, serving, sacrificing, strengthening, suckling, soothing, satisfying, satiating, sweetening, teaching, training, tenderly caring, and yearning over our children’s souls.
What beautiful words. Titus 2:3 tells us that the older women are “to be teachers of beautiful things” which are all to do with motherhood and being wife. Why is that artists love to paint mothers and babies? Because there is nothing so beautiful.
I mentioned the word “compassionating.” A. W. Tozer says we should change compassionate into a verb. It then becomes “to compassionATE.” When you show compassion, you are compassionating. When you embrace a baby in your womb, you are wombing.
We don’t hear many of the above words in conversations today. And yet they are the description of our lives as mothers. It’s time to get back to the real world.
Have a blessed day,
NANCY CAMPBELL
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