Like many other moms out there, I have worn a variety of hats since the day I first became a mother. I have donned the chauffeur’s chapeau, the chef’s toque,  the nurse’s cap, the helmet necessary for my position as the maligned chief of the get-ready police, and the one I’m having the hardest time removing, the band mom bonnet. I have worn all of these at one time or another, and like a stock-car driver (minus the money, fame, and fancy car, of course), I have felt the need to change hats every ten seconds so all my sponsors would be represented in the many pictures. With two boys, I have even found it necessary to wear more than one hat at the same moment, but now that my youngest has graduated from high school, I own a collection of hats that have stretched out, fallen apart, and no longer fit. Without a hat to wear, I have struggled, and have been asking myself, “Who Am I?”

Several months removed from my son’s graduation, I have put all my hats on a shelf, although I will admit to sneaking  into the closet to try on the band-mom bonnet every once in a while, but I have yet to become accustomed to not wearing a hat. So, I have done what many hat-less moms before me have done, I went shopping for a new hat. With no hat in hand, I stepped out in faith and chose to cover my head with a new, shiny business-owner bowler. Even though my husband thinks I chose the wrong style, and my boys question why I even want a hat at all, I am trusting God’s voice in my ear. I know it won’t be easy, and I may fall flat on my face, but I  will gladly wear this hat, and, should the hat stretch out, fall apart, or no longer fit, I will once again set out on an expedition to find a new hat.

With my bowler on my head, and my God lighting the path before me, I am starting Expressions of Faith, a business selling gift baskets and personalized accessories that I hope will encourage and empower people to enhance their Christian walk of faith.  My bowler may feel awkward at first, and it may even hit the deck before all is said and done, but there is a headpiece always available to each one of us, and it will never stretch out, fall apart, or fail to fit. It is the coronet we each receive simply for being a child of God. For as it says in John 1:12,

“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name,                                               he gave the right to become children of God.”

In God’s Love,

Kim