I was reading The Gospel Coalition blog and came across this article about Mother’s day being bittersweet for some who long to be mothers themselves. I found the following paragraph to be especially poignant:

Single woman watching your biological clock tick away, I encourage you to look today at your longings through the lens of the gospel. You don’t have to deny your longing or talk yourself into a happy attitude for all the good things you can do without kids. It’s OK to mourn the loss. God said children are a blessing. But after the fall, we do not all get to experience that blessing. The gospel makes up the difference. While you are disappointed in deep ways and that disappointment is real, you will one day sit with Jesus in heaven profoundly content with his work in you through this disappointment. In heaven, you will have no longing for something you missed. You will not be disappointed. May confidence in that hope sustain you.

It seems that many times we try to lie to ourselves about what we want, whether it be a spouse, children, a certain job, getting into a certain collage, or any other situation we don’t have as much control over as we would like to have. We try to tell ourselves that where you are is exactly where you want to be, and try to force yourself to be happy with your current status, or even argue that you don’t really want that spouse/job/college/etc. But this is very important – don’t be shy about your desires. It’s OK to know what you want, even though you don’t have it. Share that desire with God and with your close friends and relatives. But know that as you follow Christ, he is using your situation to bring you closer to the person he wants you to be. Your confidence and your hope is always, only in Christ. Just the same as it will be when you get these desires of your heart. Because of this hope, we must not base our lives or our value on what we don’t have or what will not last, but only on the gospel, which lasts forever. Like the article says, you will not be disappointed with the outcome.