Did you know that you are a good mom? Let me tell you how I know…
I remember the days well. They were long and I was absolutely exhausted at the end of them. I couldn’t seem to work hard enough or fast enough to get much of my to do list done. There were many interruptions in my days to clean up spilled milk or break up a fight.
It all seemed overwhelming and I was drowning.
The lists of demands were never ending and unforgiving and to top it all off I was supposed to be happy and love taking time to play with my children. Who wrote these rules? They only seemed to set me up for failure.
I was a bad mom.
First it came as just a thought but I quickly owned it and agreed with it. “I must be doing it all wrong because I cannot get this mom thing right. I am constantly failing. I’m a bad mom.”
Of course these were all thoughts and I am not sure I would utter them out of my lips other than discussing my frustrations with my husband. I still wanted to get it right. I still longed to figure it out.
But I just kept failing. More than I was getting anything right I was getting it wrong {at least by my standards}.
One day everything changed.
My heart was forever changed as the veil was removed from my eyes and the truth flooded my world.
I heard myself.
I had heard the lie that I was a bad mom and I bought it, began to agree with it and even speak it over myself. “I’m a bad mom.”
I was becoming what I was agreeing with and what I was speaking over myself.
When God created the world and sat back and surveyed it all He said it was good. You and I and motherhood are part of His creation and He declared it all good.
I’m a good mom. That’s the truth. Not a perfect mom. Not a mom who has it all together but a good mom. That is what I combat the bad mom thoughts with… truth.
I start to become what I believe and agree with. I was agreeing with the lie that I was a bad mom and I was in a rut that I couldn’t get out of that confirmed over and over again to me that I was bad and doing it all wrong. Now that I know the truth, and believe it, I am becoming a better and better mom.
I am a good mom and you are too! Do you believe it?
