Julia Forrester’s Reviews > Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms > Status Update

God gets the glory for giving me the strength I need to be kind to my children when I feel hurried or annoyed at the end of a very long day. And in times when I let the Spirit's fruit rot because of my sinfulness, The Lord gives me the grace I need to apologize to my kids for my nastiness, insensitivity and unkind words. Bedtime is a maturing experience for all of us.

Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate. When you understand God's plan to give future grace, you have access to what is arguably God's most potent salve against worry and fear. -Ed Welch

My biggest problem is that I live under the illusion that I can do anything I put my mind to while I give lip service to needing God's wisdom. ..my biggest problem is not multitasking or lack of experience in mothering or domestic life. Mothers who feed their soul with the Word of God will thrive as their hearts are taught by God's wisdom.

There are times when we are not motivated by the love of Christ, and we fume at our children not because they break God's law but because they break ours.

Reach out to those around you in mercy and love, serving as a humble servant.

We should take caution lest we think that a mother's greatest problem is a lack of time. How tempted I am to consider a busy season as an obstacle to rejoicing in the Lord!

By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to His will for my life.