Mother's Day

 Mother's Day 2019. The Weekend turn out completely different than I had expected. The day was much harder than I anticipated. Mother's Day this year consisted of taking care of a very sick almost two year old oh, I'm being coughed on, cleaning up messes oh, barely getting to church to teach and running a sick baby home. I am so thankful for the many gifts that God has given me and my kids and yet I have to admit on Sunday I was struggling with the hardness of motherhood. Friday night when I was up with Joel who had croup and was wheezing and coughing I kept thinking of John Piper sermon, motherhood is a call to suffer. And yet, though it may be a different suffering then persecuted believers around the world are facing, it is a stripping of self and self reliance and something that makes me depend on God more. Motherhood.  is not an easy calling but I feel like above all things it is one that has sanctified me the most. God has used it repeatedly to reveal the idols of self in my heart and desires that I want above God. And so for that I am thankful that God continues even this weekend to use it to strip away things and make me more like Christ. I am so grateful for the work God has called me and I continued to be reminded and need reminded that he is at work and helping me with a high calling to Shepherd my kids and raise them to know Christ.I do have a deep-seated burden for moms that we would see our role as Kingdom builders and not insignificant in the kingdom of God. A few years ago, I was reading a book called The Invisible Woman and was reminded again of how we are building little cathedrals. We may not see the effect of our work for years to come or we may never see it but God sees and he is helping us build a build little cathedrals to the glory of God.