Motherhood is "transforming"

From a blog post - "Motherhood is application"  I thought this was really good.  The author, Rachel Jankovic, writes a lot about motherhood and compares it to the Gospel.  This post in particular pulled at some strings this morning.  This is just a small part of her post... three random paragraphs that I thought summed it up.

If I had to pick one word to describe motherhood, I think that word would be “transforming.  The days of a busy mother are made up of millions of transformations. Dirty children become clean, the hungry child fed, the tired child sleeping. Almost every task a mother performs in the course of a normal day could be considered a transformation. Disorder to order, dirty clothes to clean, unhappy children to peaceful, empty fridge to full. Every day we fight against disorder, filth, starvation, and lawlessness, and some days we might almost succeed. And then, while we sleep, everything unravels and we start again in the morning — transforming.

In the same way we take the food we eat and make it into something the baby can eat (and our bodies simply do this without us willing them to), so we take what we believe about God and the gospel and faith and life, and we apply it in the places that seem too little for it.

As you go about your daily transformations, set your heart on the truth. Mimic the gospel in what you do. Bring peace, bring order, bring joy, bring laughter. Bring it because it was brought to you. Give, because it was given to you. The gospel is not too big to fit into little situations. It is too big not to.

Read it in full:   http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/motherhood-is-application