Part 11: Surrender (Beautiful reminders from Mitten Strings from God)
I have been wanting to re-share some posts from the days when I was a young mother - gems I had extracted from one of my wow-books*.
I am re-posting the series of 11 parts here, specially for the young mothers around me. May your journey of motherhood be as beautiful and as enjoyable as the Lord intended it to be for us!
[*Wow-books are those that have shaped my life in some ways, and they occupy a special place in my heart and on my bookshelf, treasured.]
When we try to hold on tight to anything, we find ourselves grasping at air.
When we struggle to possess - a person, a time, a way of doing or being - the very thing we seek slips away.
This is one thing motherhood has taught me: Living according to my values does not necessarily mean being rigid in my convictions about what's "right".
Sometimes our children's needs do not coincide neatly with our own beliefs.
And therein lies a challenge.
Do I try to control every aspect of our family environment or do I allow others to help shape it too?
Do I always enforce the rules or do I sometimes step aside and trust my children to find their own way?
In surrender, I clear a space in which something new can grow; I place my faith in something larger than me. I trust.
Then there is another kind of surrender...in being able to trust that your children and partner can manage for a time without you.
For some of us, this letting go is hardest of all - if a thing is going to be done, we want it done our way.
But our own desire for control can become a prison.
It's good for us mothers to remember that while we may be irreplaceable. We are not indispensable.
Life will go on without us - it will just go on somewhat differently.
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