Hello! On this occasion, we are halfway through the month of May. Mother’s Day has already passed and everything that celebration entails.
When you are the mother of small children, we treasure their breakfast‑in‑bed surprises and their handmade cards. When our children are teenagers, we value when they put their phones down and choose to spend time with the family.
But let’s talk about when our children are young adults. The coordination required feels like a military protocol. At 10:00, arrive at church; lunch at 1:00 PM; visit grandma at 3:00 PM; and be home before 6:00 PM to set the agenda and get the house in order because Monday comes quickly and shows no mercy.
If you were lucky, at one of those stops you had all your children together and managed to get that long‑awaited photo.
Now come the graduations and the end‑of‑season tournaments. Everything seems to revolve around others, not around you. But we don’t complain. It all comes in the job description.
It seems almost impossible to find a moment within the whirlwind we live in to pause, breathe, and recharge. But the most important thing is to maintain our connection with Jesus.
In John 15:5–6: “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.” (NIV)
We cannot be the burned branches.
It is time to return and remain in the Vine.
If we are in the Vine, we are one with Him.
What you think, what you long for, what you suffer in silence—everything—in organic connection with the Vine.
Breathing and living through His divine sap.
Living and enjoying the chaos, always mothers.