Happy Holy Week!

Everyone wants to enjoy parenting but so many of us are struggling. What's the key to delighting in this calling? 

Everyone wants to be a loving, joyful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle and self-controlled parent. But in this world marked by sin and decay, our efforts are never enough. Yet, through the power of the Holy Spirit living in me, more and more, God is working to make me holy.

The key to enjoying parenting is resting in the power of the resurrection and submitting the authority of Jesus in my life. The more obsessed we are with the gospel of Jesus Christ and the glory of God the more we will thrive in the good work he has for us to do. 

Parenting ought not to consume or overwhelm me because I am consumed and overwhelmed by something far greater – Jesus Christ the Righteous (1 John 2:1). 

Elizabeth Eliot states, “God is my heavenly Father, and he loves me with an everlasting love, and the proof of this is the cross.”

A delighted mother’s joy doesn’t come from what she does but who she is.