Wings to soar

There are some days that I think - why am I doing this? Oh, it’s so hard - the days that never end, the days filled with relationship issues, the days were I just want to go back to bed, the days where no one will sit still or listen for a moment, the days where I feel the weight of their education on my back and really hoping I don’t mess this whole thing up.

Then there are the days where God whispers become louder. He is always talking I just don’t always have the ears to listen…You are doing good work mama. I see you. I see your heart. I see their hearts. In the days of chaos I haven’t left. Rely on me. In the days of sunshine and reading books on the couch. Rely on me. In all the in-between days. Rely on me.

There is a pulling and tugging on my heart in many directions. When I get stuck in the muck of thinking I am the one who has to be everything to everyone in my home it’s messy for my heart.

The truth is - I will never be enough. We aren’t enough, mama’s.

Believing “I am enough” is a heavy weight to carry. Throwing it off as the sun rises and surrendering to and relying on the One who is enough brings a freedom and a hope that we can’t ever get from anyone or anywhere else.

There is a hope and freedom in Christ - “those who hope (wait) for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

Placing our hope in Christ is rather upside down living. We can hear from media, books, well meaning friends - you are enough, you are the one who has to do it ALL well, you can’t be the one who is weak.

You know what - we are weak, we will be weary and we will faint when we rely on our own strength.

Mama’s placing our hope in ourselves, curriculum we choose, books we read, methods we think are best, in what the world tells us, materials we use, in our children’s outcome, in academics and fill in the blank - gives us a false hope and just adds to the weight we were never meant to carry.

Placing our hope in the ONE who is enough gives us a renewed strength with wings to soar to be the women God created us to be as we nurture those sweet souls.