Sometime in the last couple of months, the Good Lord laid it on my heart that I ought to start a little podcast for Catholic moms (and anyone else who wants to join us!). So, silly me, I did. So, now, along with Make Joy Normal, I have a little five minute podcast that happens most mornings to uplift and encourage the mamas.

It’s called Martha, Martha. Because we are distracted by many things….

Originally published October 11, 2011

Mr. Dickens said, and I think of it often, "It is no small thing when those, who are so fresh from God, love us."

They are perfect and unmarred and unstained by the world, and unbiased and only able to love in the way that we are to love God, and in the way that He loves us.  Unconditionally, with complete and utter trust.  The newborn gazes on us as though nothing in the world matters except holding that gaze. 

I was so worried, when I was expecting my first child.  That she wouldn't like me.  I wasn't really a baby person, and thought that my baby would sense that, or I would compromise the bond by my not baby-ness.  And then she was born.  And then she gazed at me.  She knew, better than I knew, that I was The One.  I was The One, who would carry her, love her, protect her, lay down my life for her....and show her the real One.  The weight of that first newborn gaze and I knew that my responsibility was to show her to the extent which was humanly possible, of the love that God is.

Hold your babies tight, mamas.

Hold them when they cry, in their baby storms.  Be bold and worthy of all the trust in you they are born with.