MOTHER'S LOVE
Winning Entry of the 2010 Mother's Love Contest 

I'll never forget the day that God made known to me that I was going to have a baby.  He had given me motherhood.  What joy I felt in my heart.  I couldn't see, I could only imagine what was growing inside of me. For eight more months I dreamed and planned for our child. 

It was an uneventful pregnancy but a very difficult delivery.  The labor was 3 days.  I prayed for my child's life knowing this was not normal and sharing those fears with my doctor.  He decided to help nature along as much as he could and we delivered a healthy baby boy.  I cried for my baby to cry.  He was so quiet after his birth.  I was the oldest of 12 children myself, all born at home, they cried at birth.  My doctor said babies get tired from birth also.   Our son was fine - quite bruised but he assured me that he would do plenty of crying eventually.  And he did. 

Being a mother is planning, praying and thinking, working to provide service in one way or another to all you have contact with.  "Mother them."  Babies come first, they are helpless. 

My mother was special because I cannot remember a time when she would not drop what she was doing to help someone else - relative, neighbor or family member.  I know that is why I am the way I am, she was my model.  There is much joy in mothering - it comes back and reproduces itself.  God made us to be this way and why he told Adam and Eve their first command was to increase and multiply and fill the earth.  We Co-Create with God. 

When you hold a little baby it's the most pure joy there is.  I was blessed with five - 2 boys and 2 girls and one in heaven.  I long to know and will know in God's time. 

"Mother's Love" produces Love, Joy, Peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and self control. 

Submitted by Cecilia Beiser

CHOICES 

 WHAT DOES MOTHERHOOD MEAN TO ME 

Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I were raised by my seventeen year-old biological mother.  Thanks to my mother, Jean Breunig, I will never have to know.  My mother was open to adoption and I was the fourth child in our family to benefit from her generosity.

Without any words I learned that motherhood means “joy”.  I admire my mother tremendously.  She gave me her everything.  Her own mother died after giving birth to my mother and her twin brother.  Someone once commented, “Then how did she know how to be a good mother?”  Her mother mothered her from heaven was the reply.

I am very grateful to my biological mother for giving me the gift of life and to my mother who raised me who embraced and nurtured this gift.  I am reminded of these two valiant women who gave their lives for me every time I look into the eyes of my ten beautiful, precious children.

Amazing Video:  THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD

Sometimes we seem to forget that even the smallest of things can be what should be considered THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.  Check out this video:  http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=KKW7WNNX 

"Can I Live" by Nick Canon

"Can I Live" is a powerful song/video written and directed by Nick Canon based on his own true story in 1979.  Nick's mom chose to give him life, and in this song he asks the question of every unborn child whose mother may be questioning life, "Can I live?"  We thank God for Nick Canon's testimony and courage in making this video and standing for unborn life.