The Work of a Mother

As always, Ann Voskamp, my favorite blogger, has captured the essence of motherhood in her beautiful, poignant style of writing:

"That at the first, at the beginning of everyone that ever was, there is this braving of the pain and no one tells you that this is the way it will always be now– because love is always worth the pain. Just ask any mother — love is a willingness to suffer. Love is patient and patience is... willing to put aside plans for a person, to lay aside self to serve, to set aside agendas to step up to an altar. This is the work of a mother — this strange and peculiar joy in letting go of self to make the joy of another large."