Sin Boldly

Here's what I've been chewing on lately...

It's from a book that my friend Jane recommended I read. The book's called Sin Boldly. It’s written by Cathleen Falsani, a religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Here’s what she writes in one chapter:

A friend of mine, who lost his mother when he was a young teen, believes that the love of a mother for her child, that unconditional love that the Greeks called agape is, in fact, the first experience humankind has with grace. Mothers, and women in general, he argues, are special vessels of grace, both for their own children and for others. The disposition of the soul of a woman who is a mother is open to the flow of grace in a special way because of the powerful selflessness mothering engenders in creators for their creation. (p. 171)

Falsani then goes on to describe how a group of women in Kenya…mothered her “in a way that forever changed the way I think about motherhood and grace.”

Though I don't feel particularly "grace-full" this evening (I wasn't very patient with the melt-downs that all 3 kids had), I do feel refreshed and renewed with this quote - ready to lavish them with my small attempts at grace.