Chili and cornbread is my go-to meal in the fall. It’s easy, it feeds many, and most ingredients can be kept on hand in the event that you have an unexpected guest. But best of all, it’s almost impossible to mess up. This is good news for a girl like me. I’ve been known to […]
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Where to Find Lasting Faith
There is a cool and unwavering confidence I sense from people who have walked closely with God for decades longer than I have. It’s like speaking to someone about a mutual friend whom they happen to know far more intimately than I do. And after walking so closely with him they know his character, they […]
The Disintegrating Hope of Vanity
Her silence was deafening. We sat in the middle of a crowded coffee shop, enveloped in a chorus of slurping coffee drinkers and cackling carpool moms, yet all I could hear was her silence. The expressionless stare on her face told me everything. I had been found out. There is a lot of thoughtful work […]
![These days are long, and sticky, and noisy, and busy. They usually come to a close with an aching back and tired eyes. There is not a moment that doesn’t require thoughtfulness and care. And I can’t remember what it ever felt like to not be depended upon.
I have a little posse that rolls with me wherever I go, an audience when I go to the bathroom, best friends that are loyal to the core, a group of disciples that studies my words and actions, and a small crowd of witnesses by my side every time I mess up.
Motherhood is filled with a million little ordinary moments that are seemingly insignificant. But, as Paul reminded me today, this is the very place where I am called, in, “whatever [I] do, in word or deed, [to] do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” Col. 3:17. Even when I’m changing diapers and teaching my kids how to share.
These small, messy, overwhelming, exhausting moments are the very place where God has uniquely chosen for me to witness his lavish grace, depend on him for strength, see the joy of my salvation, and carry out the good work he has called me to do. If you’re feeling tired in your mothering today rehearse relish in these words by Thomas Brooks with me: “Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not.”](http://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/6520ba551e6a6b6a050f0fa6556a60f2/5E04227C/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/70851370_195672301446920_6463125835187775851_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=108 "These days are long, and sticky, and noisy, and busy. They usually come to a close with an aching back and tired eyes. There is not a moment that doesn’t require thoughtfulness and care. And I can’t remember what it ever felt like to not be depended upon.
I have a little posse that rolls with me wherever I go, an audience when I go to the bathroom, best friends that are loyal to the core, a group of disciples that studies my words and actions, and a small crowd of witnesses by my side every time I mess up.
Motherhood is filled with a million little ordinary moments that are seemingly insignificant. But, as Paul reminded me today, this is the very place where I am called, in, “whatever [I] do, in word or deed, [to] do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” Col. 3:17. Even when I’m changing diapers and teaching my kids how to share.
These small, messy, overwhelming, exhausting moments are the very place where God has uniquely chosen for me to witness his lavish grace, depend on him for strength, see the joy of my salvation, and carry out the good work he has called me to do. If you’re feeling tired in your mothering today rehearse relish in these words by Thomas Brooks with me: “Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not.”")
