After Ruthi, my second daughter, was born, I remember
thinking how different her personality was than our first daughter, Sarah. Sarah was a bundle of energy, talkative
(even before she could talk!), loved to be around others, and hated her
naps. She did not want to miss one
stitch of life! Somehow, I thought
Ruthi would be just like Sarah! I
quickly began to realize that Ruthi, unlike Sarah, was very different. She put more thought and focus into
what she did, she observed Sarah a lot, she didn’t talk very much, and she
enjoyed entertaining herself and being alone. She even wanted to
take naps! I found that I needed
to treat each daughter according to her personality. It took different actions on my part to motivate each of
them. Each day I turned to Jesus
for wisdom on how to be the mother they needed.
Being a “life-giver” means not only giving physical life to
a human being by giving your body as a place of nurture, growth and eventual
birth, but also giving life to the mind, soul and spirit of your child after
she is born! A mom knows her own
child. She knows what makes her
child tick, the intricacies of her personality. She knows how to stimulate her thinking and challenge her mind to learn, to discuss, and to figure
out the challenges in life. A mom
knows how to enliven her child’s spirit—to
make her laugh, to cheer her up, to teach her how to be kind and generous, and to
experience satisfaction in life. A
mom guides her child in ways to find life for her (child’s) own soul, by being a living example of
having “soul-life” herself. It
starts with your own personal relationship with Jesus, day-in and day-out.
“I (Jesus) came so they can
have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed
of.” John 10:10 (MSG)
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