Friday, May 6, 2011

5 Minute Friday: Motherhood



It's Five Minute Friday, the part of the week where I link up with The Gypsy Mama.  Each Friday we're given a topic and challenged to write for 5 minutes flat!  No correcting, no incessant re-writing or re-working it.

Instead, you think it, type it and post it.  That's all there is to it.

So here I. . .

GO:


Motherhood Should Come With. . .

M iraculous abandon and infectious happiness, fully
O verjoyed and delighted with the beautiful gift of a child, so
T houghtfully knit together in the womb.  Children are a
H eavnenly kiss from God sent to wrap around our hearts
E nrapturing our very souls, so that we
R aise them lovingly and guide them carefully, this new little soul,
H olding their hand through every twist and turn of life, until it's time to
O pen our hands and let them fly on their own, trusting we've done enough. 
O h yes, Motherhood Should Come With a strong
D esire to love unconditionally, to give unselfishly, to savor completely and to cherish whole-heartedly, each glorious moment of it all.

Motherhood should come with the knowledge that mistakes will be made and nothing will go perfectly.  All we can do is trust the one who blessed us and give our children our very best every minute of our lives.

STOP.

7 comments:

  1. love it michelle , keep up the great work .

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  2. I LOVE it! Honestly, really brilliant use of the five minute challenge. My favorite was for the letter H.
    Thanks for stopping by my blog!

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  3. thanks for your sweet comment! :)
    your post is much more poetic... still just as real!

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  4. Beautiful! I love you tied together all of the "good stuff" of motherhood--the precious, tender loving moments in such an eloquent way. And my hat is off to you for accomplishing that all in 5 minutes! LOL I wrote some reeeeally bad "My Favorite Things" lyrics a few weeks ago for FMF and it was so hard to come up with anything w/in the time frame! Those minutes fly! Thanks for your beautiful poem today. :)

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  5. Oh how lovely! Capturing motherhood in such a way in five minutes must be a sign that this was Divinely inspired! Thank you as always for sharing your thoughts and in such beautiful ways - Smiles -

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  6. Thank you for the sweet comments. On the 5 minutes to write. I usually check out the topic of the day early in the morning and then ponder it while doing my housework. By the time I sit down to type my 5 minutes, the thoughts & words have been moving around and bumping into each other in my head, rearranging themselves before I even begin typing. (Does anyone else think it over before they set the timer and begin?)

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  7. This really is a beautiful post, Michelle. I love you set this post up and love even more the joy within it.

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