Wilkes turned three years old in March; Macy turns one today; Owen turns two at the end of June. This is a picture of Kinsey and Jordan’s second child ten weeks after conception. She is due November 1… they will be living in Denver.
In all the discussions and debates about abortion over the decades of my lifetime, I’ve never heard any voice dispute an obvious fact: “If I had been eliminated at any stage of development in my mother’s womb, I would never have been born.”
As a midwife, Kinsey is particularly attuned to the stages of pregnancy and the changing life that is growing daily inside of her. As a mother, she is wondering how she’ll have the capacity to love another child like she loves Owen.
Her sister-in-law Emma can tell her she needs not worry… her love for Macy is just as great as it is for Wilkes. Susan attests to the same truth… her love for Taylor, Kinsey, and Karlyn is constant.
And my mom would share that God gives the capacity to love four children with the love only a mother understands. She has loved all four of us beyond the days we were under her roof, through our ups and downs and to this day. She is the best.
The ability a mother has to love is a God-given gift that blesses the world. When Jesus cried for Jerusalem in His last days on earth, He likened His desire to that of a mother hen’s. This love led Him to the cross where He made the ultimate sacrifice to rescue all God’s children.
Happy Mother’s Day!
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.” Matthew 23:37