Real Life Real Faith Mommy Matters January Issue | Page 2

Editor's Note

I am so pleased to be the Managing Editor for Mommy Matters Magazine. Being a mother is near and dear to my heart… For most of my life it
has been the most important role I played. I see Motherhood as a gift that God blessed me with. I honor the title of “mummy” and I can
proudly and gratefully say that I am the amazing mother I am because I had an amazing example in my own mother.
I know how to love because my mother taught me. I am able to nurture my children because my mother nurtured me. I lovingly and willingly
support my children because my own mother lovingly and willingly supported me, even when she didn’t understand what I was doing.
Our children come to teach us great life lessons… lessons about love and forgiveness, lessons about understanding, lessons about
compassion and lessons about connection. The scriptures tell us that “Children are an heritage from the Lord and the fruit of the womb is a
reward” Psalm 127:3.
Relationships serve to show us aspects of ourselves and I can say that I have learned much about myself in and through my relationship with
my children. We can miss some of the greatest lessons in life if we refuse to allow our children the opportunity to teach us. My own children
have certainly been some of my greatest teachers in this life time and I believe because I was willing to learn from them, while allowing them
to learn from me, we have been able to forge an amazingly close and connected relationship…. A relationship of respect and honor for I
respect and honor my children and they respect and honor me.
I am blessed to be able to have the relationship with my children that my mother had with me… “Best Friend” is a title that has been given me
by all three of my children, and “best friend” was the title that I gave to my mother.
Mothers, the greatest gift and lesson that we can hand down to our children, is unconditional love and support. Yes, we are often tempted to
go off at the mouth about almost everything, but sometimes we need to learn to just listen… listen and learn. In the listening we are able to
connect with what our children truly need as opposed to what we want to give them. Remember our children learn how and what to be and
do by watching us. Mothers the influence that we have on our children is a great one, therefore it is extremely important that we are always
mindful of the place from which we parent them, knowing that we are creating parents that will one day have their own children. What they
learn from us as a parent is what they will hand down to their children one day.
Remember, it’s not what we leave FOR our children that matters; it’s what we leave IN them that matters most. Teaching your children how to
live from an authentic place, how to honor themselves and all of God’s creations is the greatest legacy that you can leave them with. The gift
that we leave in our children is essentially the gift that we are leaving to the world.
In Love and Light…
Denika Carothers