What A Mama’s Got to Take Hold Of

Some days I wonder.  I wonder if I’m doing this mama thing right. I wonder if we’re making the right decisions with these little ones He’s made from us.

I question everything…school, friends, church, schedule, activities.  I question all of it.  Is this the right way forward?  What about this and what about that…and I can see forward just a few years with these little ones, hearts that once beat inside of me soon marching out of the house to a beat all their own.

I’m not sure I like the thought of my heart walking out of my body and headlong into all the dangers and worries and burdens of this world. Because Jesus promised it:

‘In this world you will have trouble….’

One look at the life of Christ and anyone who says they have any desire to follow that man must know they’re heading toward the trouble He took head on.  It’s one thing to know that I’ll have trouble but quite another to swallow the fact that my big (but still little) Carolyn or my growing Brennan will have it too.

I could spend hours like they were money buying up stocks and bonds of worry and anxiety over how to raise these little ones to be ready for all the world’s trouble.  But Christ didn’t say ‘take charge’ or ‘take over’ or ‘take care’.

‘Take heart.  I have overcome this world.’  John 16:33

So today when I take little Elaine into my arms, take Rebekah up from her crib, take Carolyn and Brennan’s hands, I’m praying for grace to take hold of my heart. To take up my world of fears and anxieties and questions and second guessing and take it to Christ-the One who will soon take over this world.

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