Overflowing With Love this Weekend.

This guest post from one year ago still rings so true today, especially after experiencing another miscarriage myself and walking with others through similar diffictulies. Man or woman, mother or not, I would encourage you to read and consider how to overflow with love and grace this weekend.

Spring can be so inspiring! It's a season of so much new life. The trees put on their airy spring dresses, flower bulbs burst though the cool dirt and baby animals make their way out into the world. Then, there’s Mother’s Day. Moms everywhere get phone calls, greeting cards, fancy pancakes or scribbled works of art.

If you let the sun warm your skin and think on all of that life, it can be enough to make your heart swell with joy. Unless…

Unless you’ve been longing for new life in your womb or your home and you have not received that blessing.

Unless you have felt the glow of life within, only to have it taken from you before you could even know who that child was.

Unless the places your child sat to eat, ran to play and laid down to sleep are now mournfully empty.

Unless your adult children will not call, or even text, to tell you Happy Mother’s Day.

Understanding other ladies’ hearts
I want us to pause and consider those whose cup to drink on mother’s day is much more bitter than orange juice in bed poured with sticky fingers. But don’t get me wrong sister; healthy understanding for those with hurting hearts does not require, nay has no place for guilt regarding your blessings. We can have joy and be grateful for God’s gifts to us while we hold the space for our hurting sisters.

Continue reading the full post (with a few practical ideas too) right here.