For the Young Mother

Being a mommy has been a big transition for me.  I've talked to several friends about it.  Before we had kids, I was very busy outside the home.  I was working full-time, teaching classes online, and really involved at our church.  We love spending time with people, so there's usually a lot of that in our week.  And I cook low-carb gluten free food for hubby, which takes a bit of planning and time.

Now I've cut back on some of those things because I have the privilege to stay home with our sweet babies.  There's nothing I'd rather be doing!  But it is an adjustment.  I find myself sometimes feeling guilty for being less involved with things outside the home that I used to be able to do.  They're all good things, but I have to keep reminding myself that they're not the main and best things that God has called me to be investing in right now.

A good friend sent an article to a few of us the other day called For the Young Mother: Ministry, Guilt, and Seasons of Life.  It was so confirming and encouraging!  It reminds mommies like me that our primary mission field is our children.  What a high calling, and what a privilege!  It's hard work, and it doesn't always feel like the most immediately rewarding work.  But I want to cultivate a love for our home, like the article says, and delight in serving Christ as a wife and a mother.

Titus 2:4-5 "Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled."