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Hungry to Know Them

10/7/2019

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How a Mother Feels When She No Longer Spends All Day Every Day with Her Child

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PictureMicaela is making a lot of progress using her gate trainer. However, she is so busy looking around that she forgets to steer.
My eyes traveled down the hall and settled on the door of Micaela's classroom. It was hard to keep my feet from picking up into a trot. "No running in the halls"... even for mommies. 

I reached the door sporting a happy collection of kindergarten decorations and turned the knob. Micaela was waiting for me inside, her EA helping her cut out a pair of paper shoes for her paper person.

I took a seat at the child-size table, my knees coming up to my chest in the tiny chairs. Fascinated, I watched her pudgy fingers work the sissors up and down with the EA's guidance. Her little pink lips made a perfect "o" as she concentrated on her work. 

My arms ached to hold her, but my mind and heart filled with a hunger I had never considered. I wanted to watch her like a biologist sitting before a beehive or astronomer measuring stars.

I wanted to know her. 

I was hungry to know her.

Micaela has a limited vocabulary. Adela, as a kindergartener, would come home and tell me about the games she played at recess and complain about her homework. Learning about Micaela is a constant challenge. How I long to know what is going on in her sweet head.

However, I admit that I feel the same about Adela. I love having someone stop me and tell me what my girls did that day in school or have a friend recount a funny thing they said. I want to know if they ate their lunch and if it tasted good. I want to know when they were sad and what made them laugh.

I want to know everything. It is a hunger that makes me catch my breath. 

Did God breathe this into me? A distant echo of what He feels about me? Of how He longs to be invited into to every intimate corner of my world? Or, is it an invitation to long for knowledge of our Abba Father the way we long to know the constantly progressing character of our loved ones?

Eventually, the shoes were cut out and my girl was handed back to my care. The EA let me know the answers to some of the mysteries: what she ate, what she learned, what made her angry, and how much she smiled. But, the challenge to know my girls continues. 

I am so thankful for family dinners and bedtime prayers. They are the moments in daily life when I get to peek inside their world. I like to believe that my Heavenly Father thinks about me the same way, that He gobbles up our every conversation. That He anxiously awaits the moments that I come to Him, to be held inside His arms.
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It is such a precious kind of hunger. 
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Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
       See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23-24, NIV
This is one of the most powerful parenting books I've ever read. 

​Are you eager to know and understand your loved ones better? How do you see this mirrored in your relationship with God?
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10/10/2020 11:51:55 pm

A mother will love the people that she loves with all her heart. I will be fair and I will ensure that justice is alive. Mothers and Fathers should get the honor that they deserve. Let us express that love that we have for our parents. They will do everything unconditionally and that is the truth because they are parents. They just want the best for their children. We are all considered as a living proof in this statement. Let us share the positive news.

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