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Hey Mama, You’re Going to Get Through It (I’ll Tell You How)
You need to know something.
Just because I write about home and family, marriage, and the joys and gloriousness of motherhood, doesn’t mean I spend all my days with a throng of happy, smiling children around me, basking in their sweet revelries, reflecting on how easy parenting is.
Some days, if you could peek into my home, you’d find me on the floor in my bedroom, tear-stained face, heart aching, attempting a prayer that will only come out as a desperate, “God, please help me.”
Since the Fall, we’ve been in trouble. (“In this life, you will have trouble…” John 16:33) It helps me to know that even though it feels so rotten, difficulty is a normal part of every life and Jesus predicted it, so part of getting past it is to embrace its reality, nod, and refuse to give it more power by gasping at its unexpectedness.
Parenting is where I find the most chiseling of life’s trouble. But it’s also where I know the Lord wants to mold me. So many times I get caught up in wanting someone else to change, when He whispers, “It’s really more about you right now.” How painful that is.
When I get in that desperate place, I know what I am to do.
I am to let go.
