Adding Wings
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Friday, September 26, 2008 9:00 AM
Yesterday, I received an email that was written entirely in Polish.
“Witaj Danielle!” the subject line read.
I might have thought it was spam, deleted it, and moved on, if it weren’t for the photos attached. They were pictures of a young girl and her toddler brother, hamming it up for the camera.
Spammers don’t attach cute pictures of their kids. I was pretty sure this was a mother who was writing to me after reading one of my books which were recently translated into Polish.
I plugged the text into one of those online translators. I knew I would get a pretty rough and mostly awful translation, but figured it would give me the gist of the writer’s message. And that it did.
The title of my book popped up as well as a sentence about “difficult being mum” and “this time with children in the house.”
My favorite part, though, was the last line:
“You have added wings to me and I thank for it.”
This is probably a Polish saying of some sort, but I absolutely love the idea of “adding wings” to someone else’s motherhood.
I never thought about it in quite those terms before, but really, it’s all I ever hope for anything I say or write to do—add wings.
“Wings” is exactly what my mother, my sisters, my friends, and other women of faith have always given me during the hard times in my motherhood. I am thrilled and humbled by the thought that my words have done this for someone else.
We all need someone to give us wings sometimes.
We women have the unique ability to tear each other apart, but we have the unique ability to build one another up as well. We alone can be a voice of hope and encouragement to one another as we take on the challenging work of motherhood.
Let’s add wings to one another. May God give us grace to add wings today. And every day.
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