Mother’s Day 2023 – The Chosen

May 14, 2023 – Mother’s Day – The Chosen

 

Mother’s Day 2023 was approaching and I started to think on the subject a little more intently than I usually do. As strange as this may seem, I think about Mother’s Day all throughout the year. I often times find that my mind wanders down a path of memories and what previous eras may have looked like.

 

 

I think on these things while trying to calculate the value of mothers. Well, actually the value is incalculable. Mom, what I have long referred to as ‘the greatest role on the planet’.

So, as today approached, I had laid out a brief idea in my mind as to what I wanted to share with my wife, mother of our children. I wrote her a letter that touched on the ideas that I had been compiling over the last few weeks. She is a very special woman. A woman that I was fortunate enough to find, and ultimately pursue as a partner, a wife, and ultimate teammate.

Then, as I always do, I constantly think of my Mom. In my prayer times, I always thank God for my Mom and my Dad. For one, they were/are the best parents I could ever have. Also though, I know that each of us is a miraculous creation possessing a heart that has been ransomed by the Lord Jesus Christ, and our potential is nothing short of the glory of creation itself.

Even as miraculous as each one of us is, we did not choose our parents. Nor did our parents choose us specifically. There is something terrifically wholesome and awesome about the ‘un-planned parenthood’. As if we are so smart to plan such a thing.

 

 

The Chosen. We are the chosen. Period. God’s plan puts each of us where we begin. We are no less miraculous no matter where that beginning is. God chose the pairings of parents and children. Children and parents.

Awesomely powerful, and equally under appreciated, we were also given free will. We have choices in how we tread through this life.

Today, and everyday really, I am thankful for my Mom. I am thankful for the choices she has made that led her first to be a pastor’s wife and then a mother to four children. Of course there are so many more roles that she has played, but I am focused today on her role as Mom.

I do thank God often that He chose for me my parents and my siblings. I cannot imagine a better support system over every second of my life than the one God provided. Certainly, I have fallen. I have swerved well out of the path that is narrow. I have distanced myself from the support system along the way. Yet, God, and the people that God has put in my life from day one, have remained. The Chosen.

My upbringing, my childhood, my learning along the way are most definitely credited to my parents and the tremendous godly Beal and Peterson families that have been at my beck and call for the entirety of my life.

 

 

Mom, you know, and I know, that God is in control. He has a plan. His timing is perfect.

So, Mother’s Day 2023 is here and I love my Mom more now than ever. I enjoy our frequent chats about everything under the sun. I love coming by the house and not actually entering the house as I stay outside working in the yard, visiting with you, and just enjoying the places around the property where I played as a child.

I love you Mom. I thank you for all the choices and sacrifices you have made for me, and our family. I thank you for all of the love you have shared, taught, and embodied. You downplay accolades and compliments given to you, but you are, and have been mighty, if not immense. That is you Mom. I am so thankful that God gave me you as my mother.

Happy Mother’s Day 2023 !!!