The Magic of Motherhood: The Good Stuff, the Hard Stuff, and Everything in Between by Ashlee Gadd

Author:Ashlee Gadd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: religion, parenting
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

It’s a new day, and a new witching hour. We’re up at the river trail again. The boys are both inhaling applesauce pouches, and Carson’s tiny feet are crossed, basking in the warm sunshine on his toes.

There was a time when I thought I would never come back here. It was too haunting, too raw; the trail had lost its magic.

As the bruises on my knees began to heal, I confessed what happened to a few friends. Without a single judgment, my fellow mother warriors offered me a surprising gift: empathy. One by one they each whispered their own confessions—tales of babies falling off beds, toddlers accidentally slipping down the stairs, scary moments in swimming pools, a night of co-sleeping that almost ended tragically. There were mothers all around me who could recall their own Worst Day in an instant. As much as I cringed hearing their stories, I took refuge in knowing I wasn’t alone.

“Mommy do you see that?”

I follow Everett’s little finger and look up to see a white streak of clouds in the sky, arching over the trail.

“It’s like a cloud rainbow!”

I stare at the sky for a minute, suddenly feeling like Noah looking at a promise.

You are more than your worst day.

You are more than your biggest mistake.

I promise, this will not define you.

I push the stroller toward the cloud rainbow, my hands firm on the handlebar with the promise of grace floating right above us in the sky.

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