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Streamline Your Decisions & Smart Night Sleep w/ Jennie Clarke - Downtown - Newsletter
Does your brain ever switch on at night and stress you out, giving you a list of all the things you forgot to do? Author of the book, Remaining You While Raising Them, Alli Worthington provides some simple strategies to help lessen the mental load we as moms carry.
Special Guest
Certified Child Sleep Consultant, Jennie Clarke with Smart Night Sleep, will talk to us about the importance of sleep for a family and we will be able to ask her questions about our little one's sleep habits. Want to learn more? Visit her website HERE!
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Bent Beneath a Load
Michele Wilbert
Hunched over my planner, putting in dentist appointments, soccer practices, and upcoming school events, my mind remembered a whole list of other things that needed to be added to my to-do list. While on hold with insurance to ask a billing question, I started a load of laundry and scrubbed a grass stain out of a uniform.
My mind again wandered back to my to-do list as a voice echoed from my kitchen, “Hello, this is Mary. Can you give me your account number?”
“Oh, that’s right -, I was on hold -, wait, who had I called?” I said to myself.
Our lists as moms are big and often, our stresses bigger. Without realizing it, I had held the stress of the day in my slouched shoulders until I finally had a chance to relax at bedtime and wondered why my back and shoulders felt so tight. Then we add in our jobs, disciplining kids, and helping with homework, and this is just a normal day. Add to this illness, grief and worry, and we are often carrying a heavy mental load.
How can we release the things we carry so tightly that burden us with such a heavy weight?
Psalm 145:14 reminds us, “The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads.”
God gives us the promise of His presence and a helper, the Spirit, who walks with us. We don’t have to pick up things and place the burden of them on ourselves. When we release our worries, the things that preoccupy our mind, and even our to-do lists, God meets us and carries us.
In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus teaches, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” He invites us to come to Him and He will provide rest for our souls. As a mom, this brings me comfort knowing that I am not asked to carry all of motherhood. I can stop the trail of “what if” “thinking, trying to control outcomes, and the everyday weight of being a mom. There is One who will carry it for me. When I am feeling bent beneath the Lord, my God will provide rest for my soul.
Questions:
In what ways are you feeling bent beneath your load?
What things can you surrender to the Lord today to carry?
The MomCo Winter Garden
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