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When I started writing this series on “The Secret Life of Christian
Women,” I promised to always be honest so here goes:
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- 1. Did I marry the wrong man?
- 2. Am I not made to be a wife and mom?
- 3. Where did I go wrong?
Daily, tears fill my eyes as I try to answer these questions
and for a while I felt like God never gave me an answer, until today!
This morning I went for my daily run and accidentally hit
shuffle on my phone (well, it wasn’t an accident in God’s eyes). Steven Curtis
Chapman’s song, “his strength is perfect,” began to play and for the first time
in a long time I heard God’s voice in that song taken from 2 Corinthians 12:9.
“I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength
but sometimes I wonder what he can do through me, no great success to show, no
glory on my own, yet in my weakness he is there to let me know…..His strength is
perfect, when our strength is gone. He’ll carry us, when we can’t carry on,
raise in his power the weak becomes strong, his strength is perfect, his
strength is perfect.”
The words of that song reminded me that I don’t have to try
to do it all on my own and be a super wife or mom. It is time for me to get
realign with God and understand “His Strength” not my own is perfect.
Please listen to this great song and share what you do when these feelings come over you.
I remember so much guilt and just feeling like a failure when my kids were younger, because I wasn't the perfect wife and mother that I always assumed I would be.
ReplyDeleteIt was a lot harder than I thought it would be and I was a lot more selfish than I thought I was going to be, lol!
I just remember many trips to the bathroom (the only quiet place in the house) where I'd get down on my knees and beg God to deliver me from myself and to help me be a better wife and mom and help me with my temper.
Eventually it hit me that I was trying so hard, too hard, and that HE had to do it, not me. I also realized that I was never going to be perfect. Ever. And it was never going to be an overnight process.
The guilt and failure began to stop being a part of my every day life when I accepted that God had to do it and WOULD do it, and I stopped trying to do it and measure it myself.
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