Finding significance in contentment

As a mom I think that I struggle to find my significance in this world. Is the work I am doing actually making a difference? Then I wonder if I was selfish in wanting to bring another person into this already messed up world. I think about all the bad things in this world, and how I want to make a difference. Yet here I am just making another soup, or looking on pinterest for the newest sensory activity for my little one. But then I am reminded that God had a plan, God wanted to bring my little bug into this world. he has a special purpose for her, and it is my job to help her fulfill and find that purpose, I am supposed to help guide her, I am supposed to help shape her mind, and mold her. I am supposed to be doing this. I heard a quote tonight by Mark Twain “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why”. No offense to Mark Twain, but I feel their are many more than two important days in your life. For me I can think of many times that I thought “this is what I was born to do” Yet some of those things have come and gone. Now I am a mom, and wife. I also have the privilege of being a stay at home mom. I read bogs by moms who tell you that you can’t complain that your job as a stay at home mom is hard, and read blogs by moms that seem like the apocalypse happens in their home on a daily basis. For me and my life I think being a mom is somewhere in the middle. Being a mom is one of the most trying things I have ever faced in my life, there are days I have no idea where the time goes, and days that drag on for an eternity. There are days that I just want to hide and run away, and others that I would never trade for the whole world. Yet when I look at my beautiful daughter I know, I know this, this is what I was made to do. I was made to be her mom. When I talk with my husband or just be with him, I know this is what I was made to do. When I lead a MOPS meeting, or work to get it all set up, I know this is what I was made to do. I think that we spend our whole life trying to figure out what our place is in this world, and we don’t spend enough time being content in where we are right now. I know that all the problems in the world are big, and I am sure that if I am needed God will call me there. But for now I know that I am needed, I am wanted, I am significant, right here and in the right now of motherhood!