Kristen wrote about this:
"...So much anxiety in these few short years! Then I thought of the writer who said: “There is nothing easy about good mothering. It can be back breaking, heart wrenching and anxiety producing. And that’s just the morning.”
However, that quote is not entirely accurate. Yes, good mothering is hard! But it hasn't produced anxiety in me. Rather, it has revealed the anxiety that was already there in my heart. Mothering has revealed my sin of unbelief in God, in who He is and what He's promised to do. So often I have sought relief from my fears in a doctor’s reassurance that “everything is going to be OK.” Too many times I’ve run to the pediatrician instead of running to God."
What a kick in the pants reminder: my anxiety is my sin of unbelief in God! I am going to chew on that for a while.
2 comments:
That is an awesome post. I have been getting a lot of encouragement lately from the Girl Talk blog too. Hope you guys are doing okay.
Wow! Remember my anxiety that recently welled up so strong since Thomas is finally very mobile? I thought it was just a normal part of mothering during this unstable constantly tumbling stage...guess I'll actually have to take responsibility for it and repent from it...that's gonna be hard! I often feel so justified in having it...I'm wrong.
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