Commonality
- Abbey Parsley
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
“Let’s love each other in that, shall we?”
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:13-14
In the mornings on my way to work I like to listen to the radio. I enjoy the banter between the hosts and the callers. This particular morning, a woman called into the hosts and complimented them and the show. The hosts asked her, “You sound like a woman with a 5-year plan. Do you have a 5-year plan?”
The woman, kind of jokingly replied: “Well yeah I do. I have a 4-year-old and a 9-month-old, so my 5-year plan is raising them on very little sleep, one day at a time, for the next 5 years. And then the next 5 years.”
I don’t know if this woman was a stay at home mom or a working mom. I don’t know what political party she supports. I don’t know if she breastfed or formula fed her babes. I don’t know if she’s a gentle parent or an authoritative parent. I don’t know if she homeschools or chose public school. I don’t know if she likes sports, or drinks caffeine, or works out, or has a sweet tooth, and shoot, I don’t even know if she’s married!
What I do know about her is that as soon as I heard her response, we had an immediate commonality. She could have said anything, but she chose to put the focus on the fact that she’s a mama. And I feel like that’s something that needs to lasso us all together right now. Despite our differences (which are 100% God designed, and pure goodness), we’re all mamas. Let’s love each other in that, shall we?
Action Steps:
Take it one day at a time. Savor those days, too. Write down one good thing at the end of each day. I’ll go first: my middle teenager hugged me good and tight.
Text a mama friend something that you’ve adopted or learned from her. Her heart will swell.
Turn up that radio, ya never know what you’ll hear.
Prayer: Father, I, for one, am so grateful that you created a commonality in us but also created us so unique. Help us to have open eyes and ears to not discount experiences with others based on what we thought we knew. Thank You for pulling us in tightly in commonality as mamas.
Written by Abbey, a mama with a sweet tooth