Parenting turns ordinary folk into warriors. My mom will attest that I was a very strong-willed, stubborn child. That stubbornness serves me exceedingly well now as a mother. It feels as though all I do some days is pit my will against the wills of my children
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Such good reminders. It’s so easy to allow ourselves to drown in tasks and insecurity. The Lord’s promises are the only thing that allow me to uncover my buried head from the sheets in the morning.
Ha! I do literally pull the blankets over my head in the mornings…warding off rude awakenings. Thank God for his new, fresh mercies. 🙂
Great post Jerusha! 🙂
Thanks, Anna. 🙂
Oh wow…my eyes have just been opened. I SO needed to read your post as it has given me a huge dose of clarity with something I have been battling with since we brought our son home about 18months ago. He has attached great…amazing actually, especially since we adopted him at the ripe old age of 4. I however have been battling with attachment. Thought it might have been our ‘surprise’ of a baby, or this or that…but it’s not. It’s the devil. He’s using this to keep our family fragmented. No wonder. Gosh…thanks for writing this, it has really touched my heart at a time when I am weak from the fight (one strong willed mama here too…but tired). God is good and He’ll make that mother/son bond happen, but this woke and sobered me up to the fact that the devil is at work here too.
I’m so glad, Molly. Our eyes were opened too, and we started to realize that something was at work beyond our human nature which tends toward fear or selfishness. Once we started engaging in spiritual warfare and asking God to show us how best to pray for our son’s freedom and healing, we noticed a difference both in us and in our son!
Jerusha, thank you for sharing this. So true! I love it that you acknowledge the battle and at the same time recognize that we battle from a place of rest in Him. That for me is always the tricky part! I am ready to fight, but it is a danger when I fight from my own strength, rather than from the throne so to speak. Much of our parenting years have been marked by battle, just as you have described and I also have said the exact same thing, “I did not sign up for this!” But I have also realized that what I did sign up for with a full and happy heart was to Jesus and His call. And these 11 years and many battles later I am more thankful than ever to be able to hear His beautiful voice and to be able to say “yes Lord.”
“I am more thankful than ever to be able to hear His beautiful voice and to be able to say “yes Lord.””
Me, too, Beth! Thanks for your ministry. I appreciate your posts so much. 🙂
Well I loved this post on your blog Jerusha and wrote you this REALLY long reply but it got erased somehow and didn’t have time to rewrite it. Not gonna do that now either except to say that I have been thinking these very same things (even discussed this some with Kelly R.). I don’t think I’ve seen the raw effects of evil more clearly then in Joni and the entire orphan issue. Not only that, but the huge battle waging in my own heart is more clear to me today then ever. How wonderful though to know we have a powerful God on our side who has the ultimate victory!
Keep writing, it’s like you are in my head.