Guest Blog Post By: Naomi Quijano
What has Motherhood taught you?
What a stumping question! Would it be too honest to admit that this calling with its most valuable lessons are still evolving day by day? Because, well, it definitely is. Motherhood continues to teach me, grow me, and expand me daily. Who would I have become had I not embarked on this journey of Motherhood?? I’ve pondered those words in the depths of my heart countless times. Motherhood has a way of reshaping all you’ve ever known of your own childhood and heck, your own adulthood!
One grand lesson of motherhood that has refined me in is the immense potential that I carry within my own capacity. Often times, it’s buried, unseen, or lies dormant. God intentionally crafted us women to carry & fulfill this role of “tender soul.” I used to think that motherhood consisted mostly of caretaking, which, in a sense it does; but God purposed us with abilities that we still cannot explain. A wiring of genius is what I think it is!
Motherhood has taught me how to heal not only for the sake of my children, but for my own wholeness as well. It has given me vast insight to the importance and value of abiding with my Creator. Now, more than ever, I feel the depth of love that God has for me, His own child. Through this lens, motherhood shifts. Your visuals are more keen, your grit stronger, your boldness stirred, and your faith unshakable.
Motherhood also has another teaching side: the side that opens the reality that we are delicate to the touch. Mainly in our souls. Our strengths become our weaknesses because of the depths we are willing to go & the things we often sacrifice. This season of Motherhood has taught me that I am worthy of being selfish. Not everything I have to do has to be a benefit to everyone else. Placing myself as a priority in my own life is not greed; it’s maturity.
I want my daughters to see what maturity in womanhood and motherhood looks like. I am the closest living example. Motherhood has its charge of many things, and it will continue to unravel us while teaching us. But I want the lessons of my potential & capacity in motherhood to be one of Grace & rest. Not of rushing & living overwhelmed. Motherhood, above all things, has taught me that I lack nothing when I have communion with the Father. He is the only one who can bring my identity as Mother to fruition. If anything, Motherhood has taught me that I am nothing without being His daughter first.
MAMMA ARIANNA 