It's not yet 7 on a Saturday morning. Everyone is asleep, and I am enjoying the quiet. Recently, I was asked how I could love being a mommy so much when I was the person who never wanted children. I make it look so easy. My husband even said, "Your powers are infinite."
It isn't. I know every mom in the world knows it's hard. I had postpartum despair after each birth, and my body had a hard, hard time catching up with my expanding heart. What helped was having a really involved husband as my co-parent, of course, but ultimately it is a renewing of my mind.
In the dark of night when I'm all alone, from the times I was rocking babies and watching over sick kids to the times I bring God our bills, I realize again and again that love is service. And service is worship. Loving and serving my family is my ministry.
So for all those times I was impatient, unkind, exhausted, and overwhelmed, I had forgotten to tap into the source of all love and strength. So I just plug back in to renew my love for my boys.
And if you're a mommy finding herself spread too thin, like a bit of butter over too much bread, I'm praying for you! I highly recommend prayer because God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. I believe this, and I guess that's how I make it look so easy, how my powers are infinite, because it's not me really who does it all. It's my God. And how blessed I am that the worship He requires of me is to just love the most wonderful people in the world! That's not hard at all.
Happy Mother's Day, mamas! Praying for you to receive love, strength, provision, and the peace that passes all understanding today and every day.
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Romans 12:2 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will."
Ephesians 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,"
Micah 6:8 "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Philippians 4:7 "And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
