Today as we celebrate mothers, I would like to take a step back and celebrate all hearts that nurture. Motherhood can be a source of joy or despair, or a thousand feelings in between. For those who cannot conceive, or who choose not to, Mother’s Day can be anything but a day of celebrating. But the nurturing heart of a woman should be celebrated, no matter where it affects her world.
God is a nurturer. He initiates relationship, He moves into our pain and carries our sorrows. He brings comfort, counsel and understanding. He brings Himself. He makes His heart vulnerable to ours. And there is a huge deposit of this attribute of God in the hearts of women.
Being a nurturer is costly. It takes time and resources, and it makes your heart vulnerable to another’s pain. As you step into nurturing roles, you are not guaranteed a happy outcome. You may never even know the outcome. It requires strength and courage. You will have to lean on the Lord for wise boundaries. Nurturing may look like giving a hug and an encouraging word to a stranger whom you will never see again. It may look like opening your heart and home to the friends your kids hang out with. It may look like a long-term commitment to foster or adopt. It may look like taking younger women under your wing and encouraging their hearts. Or it may look like a complete role reversal as you care for an aging parent.
Being a nurturer is seldom easy, but it also brings great joy and satisfaction. Whatever it looks like for you, I celebrate you as a nurturer! May you experience more and more of God’s heart, and bring more and more of it into your world.
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