Are you getting your theology from the inspiration quotes that you scroll through on Instagram: you are enough, you’re a great mom, you got this…?
I’m not knocking encouragement, and I’m certainly not suggesting that we are all terrible mothers, but what I am suggesting is that, well-meaning though they may be, self affirmation is not what we should be practicing.
Did your home-school crash and burn today because you all met for school with a bad attitude? You don’t need a pat on the back, you need to confess your bad attitude as a family and ask the Lord to give you a new one (attitude, that is, not family ‘)).
When I am overwhelmed and handling issues with my children poorly, I don’t need to hear that I’m a great mom, I need to hear that without Christ I can do nothing. For that matter, we as believers should be most grateful that we, in fact, do not “got this”. We are looking to the One who does. Thank God we are not left to our own devices.
The encouragement we listen to should be difficult. It should poke and prod us to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up (James 4:10).
God bless your Christmas, and may the rest of your school year be bright.