Robyn Barberry shares poetic thoughts.

What if carving out a few minutes every day to look back on the day with gratitude weren’t a requirement, but a special gift to yourself?

God is love. He loved us first – and loves us forever. He knows us best, seeing deep within us to all we are and all we can be. He sees us and loves us fully. He holds us – and the past, present and future – in his hands.

Now more than ever, we must deepen the relationships around us, which afford us an opportunity to encounter God anew.

Maybe it’s time to start a list of quarantine discoveries.

When I think of the mother I want to be, I think of many women in my life who have inspired me—and continue to.

Every step, every milestone, no matter how small, is such a joy because I know what it took for my son to get there. Every smile and every hug are a gift, and I’m keenly aware of this since it did not come naturally at first.

Mother’s Day is bound to be memorable, but not because of the global pandemic we’re all enduring. Rather, because of the immense gift that I have been given in our beautiful, healthy daughter.

As my 10-year-old son and I were chatting about Mother’s Day, we created this song.

If we know the voice of the Lord Jesus well, and we continue to respond to it, then we know what follows it: an abiding peace and confident hope that cannot be taken away.