This Morning I reach out for the word amidst screaming
children who need me before I can even open my eyes to greet the day. I so desperately
wish that there was a specific book in the bible for Mom’s. I love my bread and
I am not knocking The Word, but in this extremely trying moment I am having a
hard time comparing Paul’s being ship wrecked or beaten or put in jail to the
trials I face. My trials seem so trivial, so unimportant in comparison. I guess
I just want to find a verse that says...
“Mommy don’t give up when your kid’s have stained every
white piece of clothing you have, don’t stop smiling just because this is the twelfth
dirty diaper you have cleaned in 12 minutes, chose love instead of wrath when
your children keep fighting over the same stupid stuff, do not be discouraged
when your house is so dirty it would be easier to light a match than to clean
it. Keep on going mom, you will make it, your kids won’t grow up to be total
ingrates, you are doing good, what you do matters. Mom do not waste your time
wishing you were someone else because chances are they think your life looks pretty
awesome. Don’t stop moving forward toward Jesus because he is literally the
only one who can help you today. Mom put down the hair brush that you
desperately want to smack your child with and explain with grace that you are
out of that cereal and have no clean blue spoons today. It will be o.k. , this too
is going to pass. When your child is crying over the fact that she is Not an
only child and then you make it 20 times worse by talking about death (yep that
so happened last night) You are not a failure. You are not a failure because
one fail does not label you. And when you are in your bedroom bathroom
pretending to pee just because you can lock your bedroom door and the bathroom
door allowing for a two room barrier to the noise and the needs, for two whole
glorious seconds and then it sounds as if the dark armies of Middle Earth have
breached your fortress; this is not the time to curl up in the fetal position.
No this is when you go and find that yellow sock that was in plain sight the
whole time. You can get out of bed mom, you can greet this day with amazing
strength and wisdom and power, because you have the God of all things on your
side.”
How many mommies would like a whole book in the bible
devoted to just being a mommy? I would but then again I guess even though my
problems seem so ridiculous, they really are not. I used to say that there is no
possible way to be the Proverbs 31 woman. But then I figured out that she is
every woman in one, she is the stay at home mom, the working mom, the ambitious
single woman, the devoted wife, she is beautiful inside and out. So I realized that
God was not saying I needed to be every woman but rather that he is talking to all
of us in his word, he is saying that although we are all facing different
trials, our trials are not overlooked by him! Whether your prison is a five
story building with a cubicle that welcomes you five boring days of the week, a room of screaming kids, a country ravished by war, A loveless
marriage, or an actual cell that you
find yourself in by no circumstances of your choosing, we have the power of a
loving God to show us how to be joyful in all circumstances and turn what the
enemy means for a prison into a place of Glorious worship to
our king.
We are quick to say that Paul praising God in prison is
nothing like me needing to cry out to God in my own home (when my son keeps interrupting
my only alone time because he can’t find
the baby bowls just the mamma bowls.) We compare our circumstances but the point
is that we have access to the presence of God with just the simple use of
Prayer and worship. We can call down the heavens no matter where we are, no
matter what our circumstance is and he will answer us. We are not less
deserving of his presence just because our lives look so very different. God is
saying when you call to me…. I will answer you!!! So although us moms do not
get our own book in the bible, we get something better, we get the whole thing,
we get to know that all the promises in his word were meant for us too.
He says that nothing is trivial in 1 Peter 5:7 “Casting ALL
your cares on Him, for he cares for you”. All means everything. It doesn’t say “suck
it up for your concerns are stupid,” it says cast them upon him. When I fish... I
cast like it takes all my strength to get that little hook out in the water (I look like a crazy person!) and
so must we, in the middle of our mommy melt down moments cast those cares upon
him and remember: that his truth is for us today, his word is for us, we can not
do this on our own nor were we meant to carry it. He says to cast it on him for
he cares. God cares that I am stressed out, he cares that I am at the brink of
tears and he cares that I just don’t feel like facing my world today alone. He
cares and he has promised to take care of us.
Wow!! I needed that, because all I do all day long is take
care of people, and sometimes I really don’t feel like I have anyone taking
care of me. So guess what Mommies? We get to hold our heads high and know that
this day is not ours, but it’s God’s and with the weight of the world off our shoulders
we don’t have to fret. (Like I am currently fretting about the twelve pounds of
cereal on my kitchen floor because I decided to write this blog this morning
and let my seven and five year olds make breakfast.) But we can say this: God
has this day and I can rise up out of this room and face it with all confidence
in him, that he has my back, and my heart and my mind that I frankly felt like
I was losing this morning. He has this!
Cast your cares on Him!
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