​3. Lay It All Down

Motherhood. If ever there was a reason for Wine Wednesday. But I think that’s the problem. That old question: from where does my help come from? When we look around, it most certainly doesn’t come from God.

Instead, we take note from the self-help gurus or the new age shamans or the bottle of Jack we keep in the closet. We eat chocolate quietly by ourselves and drink coffee until our eyes go red.

We listen to all the “shoulds” from people who don’t understand how our hearts are breaking and flaking a tiny dust storm in our chests and take another trip to Target to nurse our wounds with a little retail therapy.

And that’s when we see her: the perfect mother. The one that plagues our nightmares, haunts our dreams. She’s the inner core of the person we wish we were. And no amount of downer or upper will ever make her the tangible person we see in the mirror.

But Christ laid it down so that we could be defined by Him. And when we’re defined by who He says we are, all the “shoulds” begin to deteriorate and the “are” comes out to play.

You ARE the mother you were meant to be for your children.

You ARE a beautiful child of God.

You ARE meant to be a part of the kingdom.

The only question is are you ready to lay it all down, too?