Some Thoughts on a Sacred Relationship

Motherhood is more than a physical and emotional connection between a mother and child. It is a sacred relationship between mother, child, and God. A mother has the highest responsibility on earth: to nurture a child-wrapped soul, the most precious of treasures. Motherhood is the greatest privilege—a divine assignment to walk hand-in-hand with a child, and God.

God has made us mothers a juncture between heaven and earth. From our very bodies, the tunnel of life extends. Within the sanctuary of our wombs, He ignites each mystical flame of new human life. For a sacred second, a mother is permitted to house the presence of God the Creator—the Author and Owner of all human life—as He fuses together the body and soul of the child to be sheltered within us.

And in that pivotal instant, we are forever transformed. We have crossed the threshold of motherhood. Quietly, openly, our body accepts the transfer of new life—the child-soul passed to us from the hand of God. Our minds cannot yet detect this conception, but our bodies can, and do. We switch into pregnancy mode—immediately and automatically. Our body wastes no time in adjusting our interior environment to accommodate the fragile new life now rapidly developing within.

In that instant, our soul has changed, too. The Lord has impressed upon it the invitation to love another soul back to Him. He tethers mother and child to each other, and to Himself. He asks both to grow, spiritually, through this shared experience of familial love. For the love of a kind and faithful mother for her child is the closest model of God's love that exists on this earth. He wants for us to love our children as He loves them—as He also loves us.

If we permit Him, Christ will superimpose Himself, layer by layer, upon our soul. He will help us to shed and bury our old ways, our former self, that we might radiate more of Him. For the heart of a loving mother desires to elevate not herself, but both Christ and her child. The quiet refrain in the maternal soul repeats, reminds us:

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30)

>>> this series continued in… Mothers: Closer to Christ (Part 2)