M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood

by Abbie Halberstadt

He has shown you, O mama, what is good and what the Lord requires of you. It’s in his Word. It’s in the daily seeking of him through prayer and petition. It’s in the memorizing of Scripture and the constant application of it to our lives. It’s in the bottom wiping and the belly laughing, the surprise sonograms and the surly teenagers. It’s there, hidden in the mysterious hours of quiet while we nurse our babes, written plainly across the sunlit, wonder-filled faces of our story-rapt toddlers. Moment by moment, day by day, “precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little” (Isaiah 28:10 ESV), we catch glimpses of the ways in which the Lord is molding us into his likeness. There is no shortcut, and there is no generic formula. We must choose to trust in his goodness and be willing to let him tear away at our rough shell until our true skin is revealed, vulnerable and pliable—and bearing the marks of his grace.