A liturgy for: When Your Child Needs You
As moms, we’re constantly needed, and we can’t always meet those needs. Accepting that someone is going to feel overlooked - accepting that we can’t be everything to everyone - it can often feel like failure. But in our kids’ need for us, could it be that they’re showing us how God intends for us to relate to him? I wonder if, as moms, we might actually embrace our limitations and our inability to meet every need as a pathway to God? When we come up against our finite nature, what if, instead of anxiously striving to do more or, on the other hand, sinking into shameful defeat, we simply called out to God? Perhaps there is freedom in dependence - freedom in becoming like a child before the Lord. Read the full devotional and more like it at Renewed Motherhood!
Marriage in the Little Years - a liturgy
The strain the little years can put on a marriage is real. You and your spouse are most likely operating on a less-than-ideal amount of sleep and time for yourself. Your kid(s) require so much energy, so much time, and it’s understandable to often feel like you have nothing left to give your spouse at the end of the day. But with all that's already on our plates, I wonder if what we most deeply need is not more goals or practical steps but simply to surrender our marriages to the Lord? To stop striving for just a moment and to ask God to supply what we need to love our spouse well? Click to find more liturgies for the little years like this at Renewed Motherhood!