I hope that all of you who are mothers will go easy on yourself and know that you are never alone if you'll only ASK. You are doing the most important job and you will be blessed for your efforts. Don't sweat the small stuff and STOP and enjoy the little moments. They'll be gone before we know it.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Grateful
I was having a rough week. Feeling a little burnt out and discouraged. Well, today I am extremely grateful for prayer and a Heavenly Father who is very loving and aware of me. We had Stake conference today and last night was our adult session. First I must thank my parents for watching the kids last night. I needed to be there more then I even knew before hand. Anyway, Elder Hales presided and the topic was essentially families and parenthood. You can imagine how my prayers were answered. I felt the spirit testify of the importance of my job as a mother and gently teach me how to do better. I learned so much and am very excited as I started applying those things today and saw a difference. So in summary I re-learned some important things. 1. The Lord knows me and my family and cares about us. 2. Prayers are answered 3. Blessings come from being where you should be. 4. Prophets and apostles are on the earth today doing the Lords work. 5. Days can be long but keeping an eternal perspective is critical. 6. Having children is truly a gift and even though I can do better, I am so grateful to be a mother and wife.
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Thanks, Rin. I needed to hear that today.
I'm glad to know that even YOU have bad parenting weeks! Being a mom is awesome and totally crappy! :) I think you know what I mean...not that being a mom is crappy, but that you feel like crud a lot of the time when you're not doing it as well as you'd like. Posts like this make me want to blog again so I can let out my thoughts on things such as this too. Love you! You are awesome!
Obviously I can't share in joy/commiseration of parenting. Hopefully someday... But, I remember having very similar feelings of frustration and failure as a missionary. I think that one of the greatest tools of the adversary is to make us feel like we aren't capable or that our efforts aren't good enough. I think missionary work is kind of like parenting--it's essentially the business of saving souls (although parenting is on a much more involved level). It's not surprising, then, that the adversary would do anything possible to thwart that noble effort. So...I guess you can take it as a compliment that you're obviously doing a good enough job to get some opposition! :)
Don't you love church? Especially when you really get to listen and get a spiritual message. Motherhood is a hard job and easy to feel like you don't measure up. Anyway, I put a special post on my blog for you (scroll down a little because I did like 40 posts today).
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