A Message for Moms
November 9, 2017
This is a text communication between me and a young mom friend of mine. . . .
Me:
This may be the most challenging season of your life. Mom’s tend to worry. You want to do your very best for the precious treasures God placed in your care.
Age and experience have helped me let go of things I have no control over and areas of worry. The biggest lesson I’ve learned about this is that EVERYTHING is out of my control. God is in control of EVERYTHING! I do confess I was holding onto things.
Yesterday was my breakthrough when I finally choose to let go of the worry of my finances. I share this because if there’s any way you won’t have to wait until you’re 58 to finally let go of things you have no control over, I’d like to be the catalyst.
What you’re going through as a mom right now might seem really lonely and exhausting, but you have no idea the amazing things God is doing in you, that will enhance you as a human for the decades you have left on this planet. If He just handed over a cushy life, you’d never reap the benefits you will now, as the years and tears go on. Never underestimate the beauty of God’s timing.
My young Friend:
So much Holy Spirit led insight and wisdom in your words. I need this written on my arm. The lost days, weeks- now months- they are wearying. This burden doesn’t seem light at all. Reconciling reality and the external with scripture and the eternal- that’s what has me wrestling with God. But I see that you’re right. I know it is true. Even if this load never gets lighter, even if this cloud never lifts from my soul- He is God. And He calls Himself good. Although I feel like that word will make more sense when we finally go Home.