Love without expertise

When I started my garden patch sometime ago, I had limited knowledge about gardening based on high school Agricultural Science lessons, an article here and there, a tv show. More than anything, I was eager to see my veggies grow and to be able to prepare meals from my garden produce. Watching a lettuce sproud up from a few leaves to full head of beautiful juicy and crispy made me so proud and eager to see my mission through. Pure instinct would kick in when ever I saw weeds begin to compete with my crop. Ironically sometimes, something would begin to grow which I did not recognize and I would have to wait for it to grow to see what it is, only to discover I had no business watering it. Similarly, child rearing is a lot like this. We dig in with limited knowledge and a few unexpected surprises along the way.  The one thing you are armed with is love and a desire to see a little person become a beautiful productive adult you can be proud of. That is Love is enough. Yes, it may mean that sometimes you will nurture the wrong thing, or discipline wrong or cause trauma and pain; if done from a place of Love then it can be fixed. 

Happy quarantine Mother's day💐💞