Are you a mom? Do you need some encouragement today? We're sharing some encouragement as you choose joyfully to give of yourself to your children. Every day. OnTheBlog
As a mother, there is a constant, uncomfortable battle that rages inside of me. It’s not the big or dramatic:Those big questions were settled a long time ago. The constant battle of motherhood is more subtle, more everyday, more hideable. At the center is one question:The Everyday Question isn’t answered one time, with the birth of a child, with the planning of school, or with the decision to discipline. This question is answered every day.
In motherhood, the Everyday Question is answered every time a child’s concern or need must come before my own. And as every mother knows, this is most of the time. Too often, I attend to necessary tasks — leaving the stove to help with pant buttons, helping to search for a beloved toy, excusing myself from a conversation at church to take tired children home for a nap — while my heart grumbles: If I just had one moment to complete a task or have an adult conversation without an interruption.
The Everyday Question must be answered every day. Because motherhood isn’t so much the big, dramatic acts of sacrifice, but the little, everyday, unseen ones. Because we can have a clean house and obedient children and not sacrifice. Because we’re so easily deceived to think we can live for ourselves and be faithful to God in our ministry as moms.
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