I MOPS because I was a mom with a toddler, a marriage looking at its tomb, and a freshly emptied womb.\u00a0I was 12 weeks pregnant when I lost my second baby and gained a depression that started on my bathroom floor \u2013 birthed a pain and emptiness I didn\u2019t know I had laying inside of me. Waiting for friends I didn\u2019t have and love I couldn\u2019t find \u2013 hating myself, my husband \u2026 God. He was no friend of mine.<\/p>\n
I reached out to my HOA Facebook page typing into what I didn\u2019t know was a prayer:<\/p>\n
Dear Heavenly Father, <\/em><\/p>\n Who art in Facebook land, send help. SOS. Lifeline \u2026 Hello? Is it me you\u2019re looking for?<\/em><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t know it at the time; Jesus answered me by way of Kacie (angel and Grecian sassy pants) who was the coordinator at the time. She invited me into MOPS. I was nervous, scared. I was pretty sure that Satan LIT UP inside of me \u2026 I wasn\u2019t a believer and my family wasn\u2019t following that path either. Would I be welcome, really? Oh well, I came anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n My experience here has been one adventure that I didn\u2019t know I needed and I never saw myself going on. It was random porch drops, support through my oldest daughter\u2019s sensory processing diagnosis; it was \u201cI didn\u2019t see you at church this weekend, we missed the girls,\u201d and \u201cHow is your husband?\u201d It was \u201clet us love you through fixing my marriage;\u201d it was applause when I was baptized and \u201cwalking in the newness of life\u201d with me.<\/p>\n MOPS is \u201clet me pray for you;\u201d it is my daughter teaching me what she learned about Jesus on Sunday morning, because I need to know the stories, too! MOPS is loving my family through my youngest possibly having hearing loss and starting therapy for her own special set of needs and anxieties. MOPS is watching my husband being baptized and loving him through that completely! MOPS is loving my family through trials and errors just where we are and helping us when the growing pains feel too tight and difficult.<\/p>\n MOPS helped change the trajectory of my family! I MOPS because Jesus saw me laying on the floor with a\u00a0broken heart and he mopped me up, squeezed out the dirt from inside of me, and dipped me in clean water. I MOPS because I want to be the hands that do that for others. I want to give coffee, lend ears and give hugs that maybe last too long because I\u2019m not great at using my words. At least with a hug, you\u2019re going to KNOW I love you! With MOPS I realized I want to be a good mother because He is a good father and a gracious God who doesn\u2019t waste the pain and mistakes of your past \u2026 but uses them to help fill the buckets of others.<\/p>\n –\u00a0A MOPS Mom<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I MOPS because I was a mom with a toddler, a marriage looking at its tomb, and a freshly emptied womb.\u00a0I was 12 weeks pregnant when I lost my second baby and gained a depression that started on my bathroom floor \u2013 birthed a pain and emptiness I didn\u2019t know I had laying inside of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":9302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102],"tags":[1689,1494,1991,26,765,639,146,79,87,137,55,44,870,1384,263],"class_list":["post-9298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-relationships","tag-baptized","tag-daughter","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-friend","tag-god","tag-husband","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-mom","tag-mops","tag-pray","tag-pregnant","tag-toddler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}