Notes From This Episode:

Similar Yet Different

• As women and mothers, we each have different personalities, different ways of interacting with the world and our families, different hopes and dreams, and different roads to walk in our motherhood.
• But we all have one thing in common – our Mother’s Heart
• Our Mother’s Heart is constant, our love doesn’t turn on and off
• We love our children from the moment of conception until death – whether our death or theirs

Characteristics of a Mother’s Heart

• We will do almost anything to get our children what they need and always want what is best for them
• Our Mother’s Heart is tender and forgiving, no matter how deeply or often a child might hurt us.  A mother is always quick to forgive and forget
• Our Mother’s Heart is total and self-sacrificing.  We would do anything for our children

Always Expanding

• Our heart grows as each child grows, and with each new child, a Mother’s Heart loves just as deeply and completely as with the first child
• There is no limit to how many times we can love completely
• “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” – St. Therese of Liseux