Mother’s Day: a simple Hallmark holiday that seems to have gotten out of hand in our culture and become an all-about-me (aka the mom) day.
Today wasn’t perfect, then again, what day is? I found myself wrestling new feelings as I began to celebrate my first Mother’s Day .....for the first time has caused me to question, struggle and wrestle with: why do we do what we do?!
While everyone will have a different answer for “why we do what we do”...here’s mine.
I found the world telling me I need a day all about me...and so I found myself wrestling with the selfishness of the “I want a day all about ME. I gave birth...so honor me” yet somehow felt it was wrong...I realized that there’s not (for me) anything God-honoring about this type of a mentality.
I realized that Christ doesn’t want us to find our identity in our circumstances rather he wants us to find our identity in Him and Him alone!
I came to the conclusion that it’s nice to feel appreciated, and I like to feel appreciated however that can be done super simply and can happen any day of the year. I don’t need a perfect day all about me to feel appreciated. I feel that keeping things simple is important. Plus, at the end of the day being with family and friends is all that matters. Life is hard. Being a mom is hard. We need friends and family in our corner to uplift and encourage us because we can’t do this alone.
This morning we sang the song New Wine by Hillsong at church. It has a line that says that it’s through the crushing and the pressing that new wine is made. It hit me, life can’t always be easy or a piece of cake. We have to experience the hard times, we have to be crushed and pressed to be able to grow closer to God.
So if you got lost in this same struggle today...or maybe a different struggle, know you’re not alone on the struggle bus. We are all learning and growing together on this journey called life.
<3 Kayla
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