Shaping Your Identity Through Motherhood
Whether it’s Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday…“because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 Have a GREAT Saturday, moms….may you experience God’s faithfulness in the areas of your […]
“Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.” Deut 3:27 We can often look at ourselves or our children through the lenses of others. I’ve got them. You’ve got them. We’ve all got them….people in our lives who have something to […]
Do your children ever wander? Maybe at Target or in the grocery store? Have you had a moment when you couldn’t see them or a moment when you could and you could plain as day tell that they were heading in the wrong direction?! Maybe your kids are older and are wandering down a path that has you concerned. We all WANDER…sometimes with good intention, other times out of ignorance or simply because WE WANT WHAT WE WANT.
“But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them.” 2Chronicles 15:4 We look for so many things each day, don’t we? When we can’t find something, we stress and worry yet when our children lose something, stress […]
I have it on good authority that a lot of you are in the baby trenches or the baby dugout as I like to call it, anticipating a time when you can get up to bat and move through those bases.
So much living to do while we are mothering, so much to accomplish, so much that can make our insides feel overwhelmed, anxious and sometimes a little scared. Fear can often run that peace right out of our personal town.
I know some of you moms are needing help in some specific ways today. Will you remember this promise? “For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” (Is 41:13) Sometimes the help God provides looks different from how we would provide it and we often pray that God would solve our problems according to our desires. How many times have we asked God to work His power into what we feel is best and how we want things to go? Guilty!
When I am tired and longing to end the day by dropping my head onto the pillow, I have to remember to thank God for the gift of motherhood He has bestowed onto me…it’s now an integral part of who I am. Motherhood doesn’t completely define my identity but brings definition to how I spend my time and prioritize responsibilities. And I have responsibilities that I didn’t have before…because I am a mom.