Such A Great Mom
As a mom, from one time or another, you have heard someone say how great of a mom you are. My friends say it to me, and my instant reaction is, "No, I am not." In my head I start running through all my failures that day, week, month, heck the past 10 years.
Today, I felt like a complete failure. My patience was non existent, my house was a disaster,and my anxiety was through the roof. Too much to be done and not enough time to do it, let alone enjoy my family. I honestly wanted to break down and crawl in a hole. But, I am a mom of three, that is not an option.
I pulled my big girl panties on, slapped some make up on, and off to church we went. We got there on time, which in itself was a miracle. Dropped the kids off to their classrooms, got to our seats, and I took a deep breath. In my head I was thinking, "Okay Brooke you got this. No one is aware of how you're feeling, well except your husband. You have your smile on, you shared some pleasantries with your friends, and now you are worshiping. You can do this."
Even though I am actually the one who loads the sermon into the computer for production, some how when our Pastor preaches, he preaches it in a different way than which I took it while inputing it into the system. I had no idea that today's sermon was going to be about failures. Or feeling like a failure at least. It struck a nerve. Although I was pretty good at holding it together in church (I am an ugly crier, I hate crying in front of people), I was not at home.
Back to my original paragraph. As moms I feel like we all feel like failures, no matter how much our friends and family tell us otherwise. The truth of the matter is, we aren't failures until we give up trying. Each day is a lesson. We live, we learn, and we try to do better than the day before. What we do need to do, is stop trying to prove ourselves. We are enough.
So I figured I would show you what a "Great Mom" looks like.
A mess.
A pile of a week's worth of laundry that you cleaned but didn't get time to fold. Dirty dishes in the sink because you didn't have time to clean them. Scrambling from one thing to another. Packing lunches and realizing that you should have gone grocery shopping. Dirty floors. Unmade beds. The list goes on. Lost patience, and regretting it a second later. Tears at night.
We all fail. We all have our struggles. There is no perfect mom, dad, friend, stranger, or star. We are all perfectly made imperfect. And God, He loves us that way. He loves every flaw, every failure, triumph, stumble, rise. He loves all of it. He wraps His arms around us like we do our children when they have fallen. He wipes our tears from our cheeks and kisses our foreheads. All we have to do, is run to Him.
Pastor Mark says it much better than I can. If you would like to see today's sermon, you can go to http://www.churchatviera.com/live/
If you visit it the site after 4/23/17, you can go to http://subsplash.com/churchatviera/s/5028f94/ and click on Unbelievable Forgiveness.
Today, I felt like a complete failure. My patience was non existent, my house was a disaster,and my anxiety was through the roof. Too much to be done and not enough time to do it, let alone enjoy my family. I honestly wanted to break down and crawl in a hole. But, I am a mom of three, that is not an option.
I pulled my big girl panties on, slapped some make up on, and off to church we went. We got there on time, which in itself was a miracle. Dropped the kids off to their classrooms, got to our seats, and I took a deep breath. In my head I was thinking, "Okay Brooke you got this. No one is aware of how you're feeling, well except your husband. You have your smile on, you shared some pleasantries with your friends, and now you are worshiping. You can do this."
Even though I am actually the one who loads the sermon into the computer for production, some how when our Pastor preaches, he preaches it in a different way than which I took it while inputing it into the system. I had no idea that today's sermon was going to be about failures. Or feeling like a failure at least. It struck a nerve. Although I was pretty good at holding it together in church (I am an ugly crier, I hate crying in front of people), I was not at home.
Back to my original paragraph. As moms I feel like we all feel like failures, no matter how much our friends and family tell us otherwise. The truth of the matter is, we aren't failures until we give up trying. Each day is a lesson. We live, we learn, and we try to do better than the day before. What we do need to do, is stop trying to prove ourselves. We are enough.
So I figured I would show you what a "Great Mom" looks like.
A mess.
A pile of a week's worth of laundry that you cleaned but didn't get time to fold. Dirty dishes in the sink because you didn't have time to clean them. Scrambling from one thing to another. Packing lunches and realizing that you should have gone grocery shopping. Dirty floors. Unmade beds. The list goes on. Lost patience, and regretting it a second later. Tears at night.
We all fail. We all have our struggles. There is no perfect mom, dad, friend, stranger, or star. We are all perfectly made imperfect. And God, He loves us that way. He loves every flaw, every failure, triumph, stumble, rise. He loves all of it. He wraps His arms around us like we do our children when they have fallen. He wipes our tears from our cheeks and kisses our foreheads. All we have to do, is run to Him.
Pastor Mark says it much better than I can. If you would like to see today's sermon, you can go to http://www.churchatviera.com/live/
If you visit it the site after 4/23/17, you can go to http://subsplash.com/churchatviera/s/5028f94/ and click on Unbelievable Forgiveness.
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