Moms in Touch

Jeff and I just got back from the coolest experience.  We got to speak at the Oregon Moms in Touch annual conference, up at the Mount Angel Abbey.  My mom and Dutch came too, so it was a sweet experience for the four of us.  Mom has known many of the women for years and Dutch, well …. Dutch was his crazy self.  He actually didn’t break anything, so that was great, but he did manage to reach into the candy bowl and grab an enormous red hot heart-shaped gummy candy and shove it in his mouth.  He was later covered in pink sticky goo from top to toe.

We only talked for 20 minutes tops, but it was basically just a time where we shared our testimonies of our moms who prayed for us–persevered in prayer for us, and how God has been so faithful to honor those prayes in our lives.  We are the beneficiaries!

I was so humbled to look out at this group of women.  They are saints. These women are all moms, and they’ve devoted their lives to lifting up their children i prayer to God.  Young and old alike. One mom was pregnant, some had kids in their 30s.  But their common goal was this:  to devote their lives to prayer.  I pray that I can be half the mom that these women are–devoting my life to praying for Dutch and any other children God blesses us with. 

ANd for you moms out there–hang in there!  Through diapers, through tantrums, puberty, rebellion … hang in there!  God has been so faithful to me, and I know it is the result of a praying mom.  And any of you MIT moms out there, way to go!  Your prayers matter.