This website serves many purposes as we feel compelled to share our story with others and endeavor to encourage other families in raising their children in God-centered, healthy homes. However, another purpose has recently been added to the list of priorities here on this site, as I’ve recently experienced the loss of my dear and precious mother.
The irony of the situation that I am in is that I have only just begun to chronicle my own journey of being a marathon runner of sorts, as I attempt to raise my children with all the energy I can muster together, at the same time, dealing with the loss of my own mom. Maybe it’s not so ironic. She was that way. It was she who taught me that the term “supermom” was nothing to be sought after. Supermoms often burn out. They get frazzled and eventually sometimes quit. Supermom is not the goal, she taught me. To be a mother who sticks in the game, who plays even when the court gets rough and sweaty and stinky and just plain nasty…..that is what it means to be a marathon mom. A mom who loves and just keeps going and going and going. Life sucks and she just keeps going and going and going. The goal in sight, constantly, that her children grow up to love God with all their heart, mind, soul and strength, and that they love others, just as Christ loved us and as she modeled her love to her children, too……
That’s a real marathon mom. May God help me as I charge forth in the race of motherhood. May the lessons she taught me be forever burned onto my heart.
I promised her before she died that I would share her story. So, back to the irony, or maybe it’s not so ironic, like I said….
I will share it here. Within the category The Journey Home: My Mother’s Story, you will find out about her and learn more about WHY this website even exists. It’s because of her. It’s because of who she made me become.
It’s been three weeks to the day and my heart is challenged to even press the words into the keyboard. I miss her so.
May you be blessed by her testimony. May you be encouraged as I share my heart, for her, for the sake of my own healing and grief, and as I keep my promise to her chapter by chapter.
The Journey Home: My Mother’s Story
Hugs,
Brandy
