Hey, Mamas-
On this Mother’s Day, 2020, I want to remind you about a few things before we get too far ahead of ourselves today. I know things may be different this year; may feel different this year.
That the days have felt long; sometimes you feel like you’re being too much, sometimes you feel like you’re not enough. I know I cycle through approximately 1,375,864 emotions in a single given day.
But you need to remember something- a pearl of truth in our world’s ever changing tides and our own seas of emotional ebbing tides. Your greatest reality is not how you feel about yourself or see yourself at any given moment, but how God feels about you.
I’m only going to reference one scripture:
Psalm 139 says you were knit together in your mother’s womb; fearfully and wonderfully made.
There is no debate.
When we put ourselves down, the truth is that we’re insulting the perfect work of our Maker.
Mama, you are beautiful.
I want your soul to “know that well,” as the Psalm states.
Rest in the assurance that you are God’s perfect creation and He’s equipped you for the job at hand.
I’m not sure when the paradigm shift occurred- when our culture seemingly began to cast dispersion upon the singular role of motherhood as “not enough”—
That women are meant to do it all—
Hustle harder.
Work full time. Raise your family full time.
And you’d better keep up with the house too; have a healthy Pinterest dinner on the table by 6 pm, and find time to train for that marathon in June.
Our culture says you can do it all, have it all, balance it all- and this is necessary for normalcy and happiness.
And even if you’re not working out of the home full or part time, its almost hard to find a mom without some sort of a “side hustle” these days.
And I am not saying there is ANYTHING wrong with any of these choices-
I own an LLC. I blog on more than one platform, and I enjoy doing these things.
What I am saying is perhaps we’ve forgotten the most noble calling of all. The most important job; the one that would be impossible to assign enough pay but also the only one that can shape the little souls of our households for the future and even eternity.
Motherhood is THE highest calling.
There is no such thing as “just a mom.”
I think C.S. Lewis says it best:
“The homemaker (mother) has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only— to support the ultimate career.... children are not distractions from more important work. They are the most important work.”
Mama, know your worth—
And Happy Mother’s Day. ❤️
