As I wait for the day my new little one shall be placed in my arms, I find myself pondering thoughts on motherhood.  I so desire to be a mother that my children will rise up and call blessed and yet there are days when I just shake my head and wonder...what am I doing?  And here I am, awaiting my third child...and still there are so many things that must change in me.  I pray daily that the Lord will show me how to change and that he will do a mighty work in my heart.

I also was looking through a book I have called, Quiet Moments for Mothers, compiled by Joyce and H. Norman Wright.  I came across a passage that is just so true of child birth...here it is:

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.  John 16:21

And this is so true!  All the discomforts we go through and the labor pains(or in my case the pain of surgery) just melt away as we gaze upon the beautiful face of our little one.  I am looking forward to this day.