Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother

by Abbie Halberstadt

I still had not mastered the art of leaning heavily on the staff of Christ’s enoughness in times of stress.

And it has been all the sweeter knowing it was Christ’s work in me, not my own “toughness,” that made the change.

I have had to learn and remind myself often that, for many of us, when we’re hurting, our suffering is too all-encompassing to fathom anyone else’s reality without it.

All suffering is hard. But not all hard things are suffering.