Diana will receive jewelry from Savage Heart Jewelry – one piece to wear and another to share.

Thank you to all who wrote their Mother Letters and shared them here. We treasure your words.

If you had the opportunity to write your own Mother Letter to another mother, what would you say?

Now’s your chance.

Maybe it’s to a mom in your play group that’s struggling with potty training, a mom that is having difficulty in her marriage, a mom that just doesn’t feel like she ever does enough, or even your own mom to say ‘thank you’ for all the ways she taught you to be the mother you are today.

Write your own Mother Letter on your blog and share what would encourage another mother.

Then link up here through May 8, 2012.

Join us as we celebrate motherhood. Let’s flood the blogosphere with encouragement for mothers. Let’s join hands and make it clear that we’re all in this together, this beautiful art of motherhood.

{We’ll randomly select and announce a winner on May 9, 2012. The winner will receive a piece of Savage Heart jewelry specifically designed for Mother Letters. Plus a second piece of jewelry to give to the mother the winner had in mind when she wrote her Mother Letter. What a sweet way to say Happy Mother’s Day.}

Amber and Seth Haines, curators of Mother Letters, live their gritty story in the South, have four sons, a rock house, and rare friends.

Amber loves the funky, the narrative, and community among the broken, and she knows the mess and glory of motherhood.

You can find her creative outlets, for nonfiction, at theRunaMuck  and, for eclectic jewelry, at A Savage Heart.

Seth Haines is a justice-lover and guitar-player who began Mother Letters as a gift to Amber. He talks about the intersection of faith and art at Seth Haines.

Together Amber and Seth believe in the power of story and in the redemption of people and marriages.

Learn more about their story.

These and all the mothers lending their pens to Mother Letters share their hearts, their journey, their mess and glory of motherhood in the pages of Mother Letters.

Why would they take the time to encourage you? Because they care about you. They understand what it’s like. They relate to the complexities and beauty of being a mother.

And they wanted you to have this compilation of encouragement for the 2am feedings, the confusing teen years, the moments when you wonder if you are good enough or just plain crazy. {They can relate to all of it . . .and the moments in between.}

Mother Letters was written for you, from one mother to another. You were at the heart of each letter, love pouring out for you with encouragement, so you can better embrace and express the art that you are curating and creating each day with your children and your family.

Meet each of the Mothers.