M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood

by Abbie Halberstadt

Lie: “You’re always late.” Truth: “I have been late several times recently because my three-year-old is especially challenging right now, and it’s more important to take the time to lovingly address his tantrums than to simply yank him out the door so we can be on time. I’ll plan ahead better next week.” Lie: “You will never stop losing your temper.” Truth: “I am struggling with patience right now, but I can repent of that and be forgiven. I am no longer a slave to sin (Romans 6).” Lie: “She’s killing it, and you’re barely getting by. You will never measure up.” Truth: “She needs God’s grace just as much as I do, and even when I am not ‘wise by human standards,’ God chooses the ‘weak things of the world to shame the strong’ (1 Corinthians 1:27). There is hope for me yet.” I could go on, but my point is that we believe even the most outlandish untruths when we are not grounded in God’s Word. There is no better cure for deceit than the medicine of Scripture.