Every day moments.
Oh, how the magic and the mystery of the mundane threatens to escape me at every turn. Caught up in the needs, the meals, the clashing egos, the busy, it’s easy to lose sight of the overwhelming blessing of being. Those things that happen all the time, every day … one day, it will be the last time. I will wake up some totally unremarkable, completely average day and not even realize, “Today, John Mark will call you Mom. And he will never again say, ‘Momma’ with that almost-lisp. It will be gone.” There will be a final diaper for Simon. An end to the way Birdie clutches her hands beneath her chin and squeals, “Adorable!” A last time Phin clenches his teeth and grinds his face into my neck with utter joy.
It will slip away. Silently: the little people I have here, now, today.
I have the blessing of knowing what comes next. My older children have shown me that the next steps are no less beautiful or joy-soaked. There will be laughter and discussions and true, deep understanding. I will discover the amazing people God has placed in my family in a new way. I will enjoy their company. I will want to know them more. I will call them friends.
But they’ve also shown me that this? This sweet, hard, constant, filling daily springtime of my babies lives?
It will pass so, so quickly. And I can never get it back.
So I soak it all in. I drink deeply from each moment, and try to feel the transience of every shriek of indignance, every “Momma! Watch me!”, every new skill discovered. I want to be here, now, in this moment.
For every first, there is a last. I can’t stop it. I don’t want to stop it. I wouldn’t freeze these precious moments, even if I could. But I can hold them close. I can, like Mary, treasure them in my heart.
I invite you to do the same.
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Heather, thanks for this most important reminder (and your kiddos are adorable!)
God must cherish the moments also as he watches each little child grow up into adulthood, then he and the angels rejoice when they consciously make a decision to follow Jesus the Good Shepherd. I loved your photos and the serious look on some of the cute faces.
Thank you for sharing with us here at ‘Tell Me a Story.”