Vice-President - Marissa Pineda
This is not the message I thought I’d write. I fully intended to write a Rah-Rah piece about the beginning of the school year and how excited we should be and how September feels more like a beginning than New Year’s or spring cleaning time. But I can’t get a few things out of my head.
First—a quote I found recently: “You are raising a child, not managing an inconvenience.”
Second—in the past four months, I have had two friends deliver stillborn babies, two other friends surprised with babies born with Down Syndrome, and yet two more friends and myself nearly lose children to accidents.
Third—a quote that distills every emotion in each experience mentioned above: “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
We are strong and mighty women. We may not be able to prevent tragedy or escape heartache—but God knows each of us and has created us in His image. In every fiber of our existence, he has created within us an exquisite capacity to love. He who loves deepest, strongest, and longest has made us partners in bearing and rearing and teaching His children. What a gift! What a glad responsibility!
God has a plan for each child. A plan for each of us. My prayer for the coming school year is that we remember who we are and who our children are; that we seek His counsel in understanding His plans, whether we can see them mapped out or not, and rejoice in them. We have much to hope for and look forward to.
Happy new school year! (Now go hug those rug-rats, will you?)
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