My mom takes her camera everywhere with her. She is always snapping pictures of the beauty around her. It is one of her gifts from God.
The other night, I got my hands on her camera roll and ended up crying tears of gratitude.
On so many occasions, my mom captured the candidness of my life, the beauty that is motherhood. I didn’t know the majority of these photos existed. And they stopped me dead in my tracks.
There have been so many moments in motherhood where I have seen my mom watching me with a gentle and all-knowing smile. One child might be crying from getting hurt and the other one is running away from me, but she is just looking at me with admiration. I didn’t understand. What could be so endearing about this?
I have caught her with tears in her eyes as my little ones lay their heads on my chest or pull me in for a sweet embrace. She was seeing something so tender and beautiful that she could not stop her tears.
She could always see the beauty in the everyday, messy, chaos that is motherhood.
Even when I couldn’t.
These photos are one of the most beautiful gifts I have ever received.
A true snapshot into what I live and breathe for.
I am not a physically confident person, I struggle with my own insecurities and self-doubt, but I would be lying if I said, I didn’t see anything but beauty in these pictures.
It’s like I can feel the tenderness and raw love from these photos.
And I don’t think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than a mother’s love.
Take the picture…the precious gift of a delicate moment captured in time is immeasurable.
Thank you, mom.
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