He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor of the Lord
Proverbs 18:22
You will find Proverbs 18:22 plastered all over MW's site LOL. This scripture has brought me through my greatest trials and moments of doubt. MomWifery is my place of transparency of my journey of being a wife and mother. The things that it's taboo to say outloud, I share here. I am using my voice and experience to speak against the silent expectation to be perfect instead of the grace to become. I can admit I was not a flawless wife when I accepted my ring or a flawless mother the day I birthed our first child...BUT yes I am becoming! In my eyes, that is what makes me perfectly me.
Wifey, you are a good thing. Mommy, you are chosen. It's not the ring, the dress, being completely made up in the delivery room, and the perfectly matched fits and brands that makes you good and chosen. It's because God said so! When God decided to send life to your womb he didn't do so because of any earthly thing. He did so because he had a plan. His plan includes every part of you. Yes, even when you are exhausted, broken, insecure, frustrated, or mad. Every part that you feel you dont have together, he accounted for, and made provision for. Having this truth written on your heart, that you are good and chosen is a indestructable foundation on the days the world tells us that we don't match up.
May I share my testimony with you?
From the age of 9, I knew what I wanted to do in my career. I took the proper steps to make that happen in high school and was well on my way. I told my grandmother, she wished me well, and encouraged my little soul, two months before her sudden transition. I had even more drive to accomplish this goal that I have been holding for so long. Mid journey, I met my now husband and we had our first child. I spent my first years of motherhood trying to balance both my career choice and motherhood. I was failing at both. The loses I missed in motherhood held greater weight in my heart so that's where transitioned to a housewife.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
At every opportunity, that silent expectation would raise its ugly voice through naysayers and it wasn't so silent. Being a stay at home wife and mom, I have been called lazy, a gold digger, overprotective and crazy. I can laugh at it now but there was a time that it drove me to rage. Mind you I have been a mother who worked more than I was home, I have been a mother who worked while still tending to our home, I have worked from home, and I have also not worked at all. On each path, an aspect of me being a wife and mother has been judged and criticized. I have even taken the negative criticism to "better" myself. Nothing was ever good enough. I share this testimony to share this......Wifey, you are a good thing! Mommy, you are chosen....because God said so! That's it, no other reason...but hey...that's the greatest reason.
Whatever God put in your heart to be as a wife and mother of your household...do it! Society may not agree, maybe your friends and family will not agree...Be you! The true you. Without the big flashy things of life, who are you? This is what Grace Walk is all about. Finding God's truth in our story and living it unapologetically. Flaws, highs and all.
Be blessed!
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