A Mother's Day Blog

The last few days the anticipation of Mother's Day has been overshadowed a bit by the sheer business of ...well life! This time of year always makes me very nostalgic as I look at my life before I became a Mom and then pregnancies and deliveries, then the awkwardness of not having a clue what I'm doing and the heart-wrenching adventure of just trying to figure it all out...still. With little motivation towards craftiness the rest of the year, I've spent the last 2 days scrapbooking like a mad woman! It's cyclical. The end of the school year, my wedding anniversary, Mother's Day and our boys' birthdays (all in the same month) compel me to sift through hundreds of pictures, take out a loan to pay for the developing, then cut them to pieces, stick them on carefully selected background paper and embellish them with stickers, quotes, scripture verses, dates and places.

I wonder if my children will ever really appreciate the effort it takes to put the history of the past year of their lives down into a book. Yet Mom's all over this country, in some form or fashion, go to great lengths to preserve a piece of the past for their kids. It may be through photos, quilting from old clothes, making home videos, shadow boxes, recipe books or keepsake chests but there is something to be said for remembering where you came from. Why do we do this? It doesn't take a genius to see that we Mom's love our children and want to be remembered by them.

How my heart resonates with God's as I lay out these scrapbooks. That His great love for us motivated Him to put everything important down in a book, so we can know where we came from and what our heritage is! How hurtful it would be for my children to toss aside my labor of love. Their scrapbooks are full of true things that have happened in their history and as a Mom, I was able to show them this history because I was there. Has God not laid out for us the past, present and future in His Word out of His unfathomable love for His people?

Genesis 1:1 says

"In the beginning God created, the heavens and the earth."

My Father knows where I came from because He was there from the very beginning and He wrote it all down and has preserved it through centuries for me and for you. His desire is for us to remember Him and to know Him and his vast love for us. He still wrote it all down in the Bible anyway, knowing that some would not read it, believe it or appreciate it. Now that is a love wth purpose!

If you want to know about your ancestry and the history of mankind read Genesis 1 & 2.
How bad things began happening in our world; read Genesis 3:9-23
How law began; read Exodus 19 & 20
How we will never measure up to the law; read Romans 3:23
Who Jesus is; read the book of John
What God did to make us clean; read John 3:16
How God calls and equips Christians to live on this earth; read the book of James
What Heaven is like; read Revelation 21 & 22