How My Day One Perspective of Motherhood Has Carried Me Through the Years

I can remember like it was yesterday holding my newborn in my arms and saying: Precious baby, you and I are going to learn this together. Every day is new for both of us.

Six years later, I find myself holding the very same thought. And truthfully, I’m so grateful. This perspective has freed me—it never demanded that I have it all figured out. Instead, it’s been a posture of humility, an honest admission to my children: I don’t have it all figured out.

From those early days of getting into a groove breastfeeding to today’s challenges of navigating first grade curriculum… From trying to decipher baby cries to now standing beside them in the swell of big emotions—there has always been something new to learn.

But this I do know: every single day, I will keep showing up wholeheartedly. And together, we will keep learning.

And maybe that’s the greater lesson. God isn’t asking for us to have it all figured out. He is asking we steward our children well. He meets us with patience, guiding us step by step, never demanding perfection but always inviting us to walk and grow with Him. We may not be perfect, but we serve a God who is. And the more we walk with Him, the more we point our children to Him—in the quiet, humble steps of parenthood.

What perspective of motherhood has helped carry you through the years?