I so enjoyed the posting at "Raising Homemakers" today and wanted to share it here. I so often feel like a failure as a mom. I just want to get this "mom thing"
right. This article was an encouragement to me and I hope it encourages you too. Click on the link below to read the whole article.
I’m not sure there are any words more frequently bounced around the heart of a mom than some version of “I’m a failure.” (I heard that amen.)
In fact, I am prone to wake up in the middle of the night only to start rehearsing all the ways I’m letting my kids down, all the inadequacies and deficiencies, what I’m not giving them, and on and on. Until one night around 3am, as I was praying all my fretting back to the Lord, He’d had enough.
“Are you trusting in your good parenting, or are you trusting in Me?” He asked point blank.
Um, whoopsies (to borrow daughter’s terminology.)
That night stopped me short because He had just placed His finger on an idol in my life: my self reliance and overemphasis and worry over being a good mom.
The Bible teaches it’s not my own good parenting choices or how together I am as a mom that God wants me to feel confident about. Paul said it this way, “I place no confidence in the flesh…” (Phil 3:3) I’ve learned that failure can, in fact, be very useful because it exposes the object of my faith.
God has allowed me to be utterly broken as a mom in order for me to get this lesson right. In it all, He has shown me He wants me to transfer my trust from myself (my good choices, my hard work, my skills and abilities, my wisdom, etc) to Him and His character. Because God’s good plans for my life and my children’s lives never depended upon me in the first place.
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