Mother’s Day 2009 was a really special day for me.   We snapped this picture of the children and I, and I have just loved it.   If you’ve read my blog at all, you know that I really do enjoy being a Mommy!  

We didn’t know that two weeks later that picture of the children and I would be posted on refrigerators and tucked into Bibles as friends and strangers alike purposed to pray for us as we faced my breast cancer.  

There are women as young as I, with sweet families depending on them, who aren’t there for the Mother’s Day photo the year after their diagnosis.  I have looked at the 2009 picture for a year, asking Jesus to let me raise my children for His glory.   And I’m still here.

I hesitated to add those words... for His glory.   Does it sound overly  pious or a little extreme?   It really is the purpose I have for living, though!   I have found refuge for my spirit and salvation for my soul in the person of Jesus Christ.   I want my life to show the bigness of this Creator God,  the grandness of His pursuit of mankind, and to ultimately live God BIG in my little life.

And it has been almost a year.   I’m still Mommy.   The thought just makes me weep!   We all know we don’t have a guarantee on tomorrow, but for now... for Mother’s Day 2010, I am still the Mommy in the picture, surrounded by sweet hobbits.

My heart wells up with gratitude to God for letting me stay this long, that I am growing stronger, and that we are actually looking over the brink of heading home to try to live a life of wellness again.

I don’t think I can say it enough... thank you to everyone who has prayed for us, for the friends who gave us airline miles to help get our tickets home, for those who have not forgotten us though the road has been long.  

Take a moment to rejoice and marvel with me... I’m still the Mommy!