Saturday, October 29, 2011

A Velveteen Mother

"And maybe that is all — a Velveteen Mother is a mother who keeps bending her worn knees with prayers that her child may walk straight paths. Never ceasing to pray for her own crooked heart.

Never forgetting — Train up a child in the way he should go and be ready to forgive him. The Way he should go is down a road named Grace.

Why do I forget that becoming Real — becoming a velveteen mother – it will hurt in a thousand ways?

The weary and the wearing away and it the most beautiful part."

~Ann Voskamp

Read more at:

http://www.incourage.me/2011/10/tiger-mothers-or-the-making-of-velveteen-mothers.html

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