Fellow Moms: You're Not Alone

The other day while driving my daily drop-offs and pick-ups from school, one of my sons thought that it would be really funny to repeat everything that everyone was saying. After about 20 minutes of mimicking from the backseat, another child eventually shot back at him with some joke.

Adrenaline rushing, my son unfastened his seatbelt, leaped over the backseat and began pummeling his brother! I’m driving—on the highway—for that matter, and two of my boys are duking it out in the back seat.

I enlist my third son to attempt to pry the boys apart—did I mention that I was driving. . . on the highway? By the time I arrived at home there was a massive dog pile of wrestling boys in the back seat.

I share this very raw window into my day to encourage you. Fellow mother, you’re not alone!

Sometimes in the activity of motherhood, it can be difficult to stay focused on the bigger picture of what we’re truly building—the hearts of our children. In our weariness we can reduce motherhood to child management instead of discipleship. Stay encouraged. Stay the course.  

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up  (Galatians 6:9)