On Mother's Day

I don't really like Mother's day. As someone who always wanted lots of children, and most likely won't have any, what I'd like to do is just ignore it. But I do appreciate this post from Practical Theology for Women. I especially appreciate that Wendy doesn't try offering earthly consolations and substitutes, she just lets it be what it is. But she does point us to the gospel and to heaven, which is where the only real consolation is found.

Single woman watching your biological clock tick away, I encourage you to look today at your longings through the lens of the gospel. You don’t have to deny your longing or talk yourself into a happy attitude for all the good things you can do without kids. It’s OK to mourn the loss. God said children are a blessing. But after the fall, we do not all get to experience that blessing. The gospel makes up the difference. While you are disappointed in deep ways and that disappointment is real, you will one day sit with Jesus in heaven profoundly content with His work in you through this disappointment. In heaven, you will have no longing for something you missed. You will not be disappointed. May confidence in that hope sustain you.