The Day my Heart Multiplied

“How am I going to do it?” I cried “I don’t think I can handle it!”

It was the night before delivering my second child via C-section. Doubts and fears flooded my mind as I held my two-and-a-half-year-old girl.

“What are you talking about?” asked my mom.

“How will I be able to divide my heart in two now?” I responded.

My mother smiled and placed her hand over mine.

“Honey, the love in a mother’s heart doesn’t get divided, it multiplies!”

Peace invaded my heart and calmed my restless mind.

Early the next morning, I walked into the hospital with newfound confidence and calm.

A few hours later, I held my baby girl in my arms as my mother’s words came alive in me.

Five years later, my heart was multiplied again by a baby boy.

Even though they share the same DNA, each one is different in their own unique and special way.

I’m an empty nester now and about to celebrate thirty years of motherhood.

I’ve made many mistakes along the way, and my motherly virtues have been tried many times along this journey. However, the love towards my children has never been shaken, and no matter what, it never will.

I can’t help but think of God’s love towards His children.

• He created us in His image and knitted us in our mother’s womb with such tenderness that He refers to us it inPsalm 139 as “fearfully and wonderfully made”
• We are so special to Him that He declares “Anyone who injures you injures the very pupil of my eye.” Zec. 2:8
• He is constantly watching over us, as Psalm 121 reassures us “your guardian is not asleep. No, the guardian of Israel never slumbers or sleeps.”
• He wants what’s best for us as described in Jeremiah 29:11 For I know what plans I have in mind for you,” says the Lord, ‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future.”
• The ultimate proof of His love is told in John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who never sinned, voluntarily died on the Cross to give us the gift of salvation. He died so that we could live.

All we must do to partake of that gift is: recognize that He died for us, repent of our sins, open the door of our heart and invite Him to take control of our life.

And then, open the gift of salvation and an abundant life, full of love, peace, joy and much more.

He is waiting with arms open wide.