Dear Becky

Dear Becky,

6 years ago today, you made me a mom. In a room full of emotions and crying babies and crying momma's (crying for different reasons) - I became a mom. 

It's what I always tell you when you struggle with "being the littlest"..that you were the one that made me a mom first. You had and have a BIG job. 

You and I have navigated a lot of mothering these past 6 years - you learning how to be a daughter and me learning how to be a mom. 

I have made a mistake or a hundred - and you have suffered through them. You have struggled to accept that you are worthy of a mother's love - and I have suffered through that. 

Because I see how wonderfully and fearfully God created you. 

Because I know how very worthy you are of love. 

It's not lost on me that me being a mother comes at a great sacrifice to another mother somewhere. I never forget that you were another's daughter first - and that there is great loss there for you in this my journey of motherhood. This journey of great sorrows but also great joy in that God restores and redeems what is broken in our worlds and takes a childless mother and places a motherless child in her arms. 

 

We have come so very far from that room in Guangzhou. I can't wait to see where else God will take us on this journey of me being your mom and you being my daughter. 

My precious daughter who made me a mother -