Psalm 131:

My heart is not proud, O LORD
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD
both now and forever more

I felt so connected to God this afternoon in that psalm which greeted my eyes as I flipped open my bible to my favorite book of Psalms. It is true nothing I do is going to affect the world too much or that I am so clever and full of achievements that I can concern myself with great and wonderful things. I am just a mother who is doing what millions and millions of mothers before me have ever done, loving and caring for their families. I sat there alone reading and re-reading softly aloud, and feeling the sound of my own words touch my heart and connect with God. I am still pondering on why its author used the illustration of a weaned child and its mother though. I try to remember how it was when they were weaned but I still cannot understand why, a weaned child and its mother.