MOTHERHOOD ISN'T EASY

I’ve always known I wanted to be a mother.

 

Funny enough, I’ve never been very crazy about children.

They’re usually sticky and always unpredictable.

 

Nevertheless, I’ve always wanted my own.

 

It never dawned on me the true weight of Godly motherhood until I was looking down at my very own precious baby boy.

Mine to raise, guide, and care for.

 

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Raising boys in a Christian home in 2025 can be challenging.

 

There are times when I feel like an outcast, or like I am treading these waters alone.

But I often return to the scriptures that God has given us in His word to remind myself:

 

What I’m feeling doesn’t mean I’m doing something wrong.

 

In fact, the Word tells us that we are to be set apart from this world.

Not to be conformed to what everyone around us is doing just because it is the “norm.”

 

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When your child is 6 years old and everyone and their brother at Walmart is asking him what he’s going to be for Halloween, and you have to have that

“We don’t celebrate Halloween” conversation…

 

I won’t tell you it doesn’t get old or that it isn’t awkward.

It does, and it can be.

 

But what I can tell you is this:

The joy, peace, and contentment that God gives me and my children—year after year—when we don’t go with the flow of the world,

far surpasses all of the bad or hard.

 

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When I told my family that I was planning to homeschool my kids one day, I’m sure they thought I was crazy.

There were times when I wondered myself, “Am I crazy!?”

 

But there was this tug on my mama heart that grew stronger and stronger as my son got older.

When the time came, we made the leap.

 

He’s now going into the 8th grade, and I can’t tell you how much God has blessed!

 

There have been hard days.

There have been so many hard conversations.

 

But through it all, God reminds me:

 

There is nothing my children will lose—

and everything they can gain—

from being taught at home with a curriculum that keeps Christ at its center.

 

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In Galatians, God’s word tells us:

 

“Do not grow weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

 

My prayer is that there is more support and encouragement for the Christian mother

who is praying and asking God for direction with her children.

 

That going against what the world is doing doesn’t have to bring so much stress and anxiety.

 

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I’ve been there, mama.

I am there.

 

Keep on keeping on.

 

One day we will finally hear those words that in our hearts mean more than any opinion of anyone down here:

 

“Well done, my child. Well done.”