On Motherhood: Acceptance and Belonging

We’re all looking for community. 

We desire to be accepted and loved and belong to a space and with people who love us and make us feel welcomed. 

Life has given us wisdom as we’ve navigated heartbreak in romantic encounters and friendships for how we deserve to be treated, what we’re willing to give, and what we expect to be given to us in return. There are years that ask questions and years that answer and sometimes in motherhood the years that answer speak to the questions you’ve carried for this very moment. We owe ourselves the belief that we’ve gained something from this life worth sharing.

But adolescence is a journey. I’m entering the adolescence stage of motherhood and it is kicking my ask. It’s like the toddler stage but with questions and naïveté and disappointment. Before I shared this profound insight with my son I cried for a while because as Imani Perry mentions in her book BREATHE: A Letter To My Sons, “[Their] preciousness collides with the ways of the world.” 

There’s mourning that happens in motherhood we fail to give ourselves the space to acknowledge. But even in our mourning the collisions our kids will endure we still have to lean into our wisdom and offer them the beauty of what we have received from our own collisions with the world. 

Leaning is hard. Sometimes it knocks us off our balance and we believe we don’t have the words or we haven’t lived enough to teach with depth. 

But love is deep. 

And the greatest of these is love. So let love lead you in your offerings. 

It’s something they’ll never forget…

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