Let’s celebrate motherhood in every season. Welcome to our time of tea & reflection together…dear friend…

I’m doing something different today, I’m brewing two tea blends in one pot! I have Lady Grey & French Earl Grey teas… It’s amazingly good, with a slice of toasted gf banana bread topped with butter & a drizzle of maple syrup…scrumptious!

In many parts of the western world mothers enjoy a time of celebrating their motherhood with their children, grandchildren & maybe even their great grandchildren on an annual day deemed to honor them on Mother’s Day!

However all mothers around the globe know that motherhood has many seasons of celebration & doesn’t just happen on one particular day of the year.

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Being a Mama is the most important & rewarding job in the world that a woman can be called to do (whether biologically, adoptive, step, foster, kin or familial) & also the most challenging!

There are many seasons within motherhood…

The arrival of Spring… brings that promised new life, the long awaited child has finally arrived & joined the family…& it feels as though they have always been.

Spring times...herald the Joy of watching our child’s budding new growth bloom into something wonderful & amazing.

Summer times...bring hot & sweltering days of doing the hard yards of parenting through love, sweat & tears in the heat waves of life…leaving us feeling weary & tired. Wondering if this season will ever end with its constant source of heat & pressure!

Autumn times…with its welcomed temperate days & beautiful colors, this is the season in which our child seems to be in that time of contentment. All seems right with their world & ours!

Wintery times...seasons of quite contemplation, where our child is becoming or has become their own person. Though still needing those times of joining us around a warm & cozy hearth of love & support, especially when those stormy blasts of life come blasting…

Of course just like our crazy weather patterns where we can experience temperate,  hot & cold temperatures in one day. We can also experience all four seasons of parenting in one day!

However, as our child transitions from one season to the next

Traversing from being a toddler, through childhood, adolescence & adulthood we also need to adapt & transition to the seasonal changes of motherhood.

Our babies, who were totally dependent upon us for their every need back then. Is not what an adult daughter or son living in their own life needs nor wants from their Mama.

We need to respect this, although this may be difficult at first, it’s necessary for building a healthy adult relationship with them.

They will always need our love & support in some form or another & what shape that takes may need negotiating over the changing seasons in both lives.

But, we can still continue that all important personal cheer leading for them ~ 1 encouraging & supportive Mama = a full cheer leading squad!…Cheering encouragement like;

 You can do it!  

I believe in you!

You’re doing an amazing job!  

You’re the best!  

I love you & think you’re awesome!

As you may know if you have joined me here previously that I have chronic health conditions which have greatly impacted every area of my life, limiting my capacity to support my family in the ways I desire.

But one of the greatest supportive roles we can do as their Mama’s, is pray & I can still do this!

It’s a very important love in action that we can do each & every day as the following highlights;

“…The heartfelt prayer of the righteous is powerful & effective…” 

James 5: 16

Until next time,

Jennifer

 You’re most welcome to join me in The Reading Nook

Or in Prayer

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