From Our Worship Music Associate, Jenny Skarke:

First Baptist Church of Texas City
From Our Worship Music Associate, Jenny Skarke:
May 8th, 2021 was not only Mother’s Day, but coincidentally it was also the day I found out I was going to be a mother! I struggle to find the words of how excited I was on that day, but I struggle even more to find the words to describe the feeling of being a mother. I have continued to celebrate my mother every year for all she does for our family, but there are things that our mother has done for us that we don’t have a memory of.
My mother fed me, changed me, bathed me, embraced me while I was crying, rocked me to sleep, cared for me when I was sick, all while running on little sleep. I ask myself... How did she do it? Even though those times were difficult, she still counted the seconds until she could come home to me after work. She would still rush to rock me back to sleep after already trying to put me to sleep four times. I could go on and on. Again… How did she do it?
After Clarke was born in December, I finally understood how she did it. The love you have for that tiny, beautiful, helpless human that you cared for in the womb for 9 months is unlike anything you have ever experienced. You would do anything in your power to make sure they feel safe and loved. And even though they can’t say it in the beginning, you know they love you the same way just by the way they look at you and the way their little hands wrap around your finger. I am now living similar moments that my mother lived with me when I was a baby, and I now understand. These are the years she won’t remember, but I will cherish forever.
Just as I struggled to understand the depth of a mother’s love, the vastness of God’s love can be difficult to fathom. John 3:16-17 says, “16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” And like 1 John says, “We love because he first loved us.” After becoming a parent, I feel so much closer to realizing the gravity of God’s sacrifice and love for us.