Dear Mothers of the Future Generation,

Mothers of boys and girls, boys and girls who will become future president, future royalty, future husbands, future wives, future mothers, future mothers, the whole world depends on your assignment! A generation you will not even live to see is depending on the lessons that you care to pass on to your children Today.

As a full time working mom who has transitioned into working from home and spending 24/7 with my one and only daughter, I have those days where I get tempted by Indeed.com. Yesterday, I went out for a walk with my daughter and once she sees other kids she immediately ignored me and went to play. So I was on the playground awkwardly watching her play and following her attitudes and reactions to everyone and the thought came up again, “she would thrive at a daycare because she is independent and she loves other children, and I can apply and get a really great job and go back to working outside of my home.” So the thought came and went, then we walked back home. I got her ready for bed, bathed her, guided her on how to brush her teeth, watched her put her pJ on independently then she chose 2 books for our routine night reading. After reading two full stories, she prayed and I sang “Si du nid tombe l’oisillon” until she fell asleep. Nothing out of the ordinary; I have been singing this song to her since she was a couple of days old at the nursery away from me for weeks; I have read for her every day so normal stuff. Then, something came over me and I started speaking things into her life – strong powerful christian words. It was like a 2nd prayer over her sleeping body. Then I remembered my own fight with trauma and several other detrimental cycles I am trying to break in my life, and I said I can’t go back out in the world while I have such an important assignment here with her. This is not taking away from working mothers, this is something I thought out of my own personal experience and transition. I think of everything that was at stake if I spend my life seeing this lady only in the evenings and weekends.

I went to my room and a few hours later as I had an appointment with God, I started reading the bible and journaling my thoughts. I decided to read a verse that I did not get to read the night before from my prayer journal. Guess what it says…… (I’m telling you God works in very mysterious ways)

Ezra 10:4 “Arise, for this matter is your responsibility. We are also with you. Be of good courage, and do it.”

This verse is referring to a time where the Israelites were taking pagans wives and committing all sorts of sexual immoralities like taking their daughters for wives ect…. and the priest Ezra was crying and confessing to God and some of the people came to him to give him courage to lead according to God’s calling in his life. After I read it I wanted to scream “God I f*** love you” but of course I did not say that. I laughed at how fitting this verse was for this moment I was experiencing and I started to think the long distance and the assignments that we have as mothers. Our responsibility to this world and the ridiculousness of unfair statements toward mothers, whether stay-at-home, working-at-home, working part-time or full time.

Because I want this post to be all positive vibes, I will not spend time going over these unfair statements. But I want to send you some affirmations today to step into your power and all of the awesome-ness of your existence.