Mom Heart Moments #236

[Jesus said,] “How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!”

I GET GIDDY JUST THINKING about the last week in August. Family Day is a time each year that we gather with all of our children and their families to celebrate the Clarksons. My mother heart longs to have all of us together, close, touching each other, enjoying each other. My children are my beloved ones, the ones to whom I am related —they came from my body, I have nursed them and loved them. They are my brood. We eat our family’s favorite foods and have feasts together. We spend all of our time, just us, talking, giggling, celebrating life, sharing our dreams and thoughts, cuddling together on the couches watching favorite movies, going hiking together, and taking intentional time to remember together all the ways we have seen God answer prayer and provide for us as a family.

It is a time I am blessed to gather my brood under my wings. As a mother, I delight in sharing the company of my precious children and loving and ministering to them and sharing hearts one more time, before they all go back into the world.

And so in today’s verse Jesus shared with us the same mothering example —He longed to gather His brood under His wings, so to speak. Jesus wants a relationship with us. But we, too, must be intentional.

In what ways are you intentional in gathering your family to remember who you are and what you love? In what ways are you intentional about your relationship with Jesus?