Mother’s Day 2025: Motherhood is a Chapter Book
Mother’s Day 2025: Motherhood is a Chapter Book
Ruth
May 11th, 2025
Motherhood is a Chapter Book
Chapter 1 Focused Nurturer
Chapter 2 Reluctant Leader
Chapter 3 Exhausted Fighter
Chapter 4 Resurrected Hoper
Chapter 5 Generation Advancer
Motherhood Chapter 1 Focused Nurturer
The keys to thriving in this chapter is to understand that…
1) this is a relatively short chapter in the scope of your whole story
2) you will get better at “mothering” as you go
3) live in the moment more than you long for the next moment
Husbands/Father’s it’s not that you don’t have a hand in the nurturing chapter it’s just that what your family really needs is for you to Cover Spiritually, Lead Faithfully and Work Diligently.
Motherhood Chapter 2 Reluctant Leader
Life has a way of making demands for which we aren’t ready.
“Where you go, I will go and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.”
When you find yourself in the reluctant leader chapter, God will lead you out but you have to walk out.
Motherhood Chapter 3 Exhausted Fighter
No one is the same after a hard life/spiritual fight and you’re not supposed to be, you’re are supposed to be wiser and stronger – “battle tested” – this is a good thing but it is an exhausting thing.
Your next life chapter is interconnected to your past chapters but your future is not dictated by those chapters – your future is 100% dependent on God.
God never wastes our hard, He uses it to glorify Him and strengthen us. Remember, this chapter isn’t a dead end, it’s a new life beginning.
Motherhood Chapter 4 Resurrected Hoper
Biblical hope is not a wish, it is a confident expectation that God’s got this and God’s got you! Hope has the ability to sustain life in its darkest, emptiest moments.
Psalm 121 (NIV) A Psalm of Assent I lift up my eyes to the mountains — where does my help come from? [In this context you could say, ‘where does my hope come from’]2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot slip — he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord watches over you — the Lord is your shade at your right hand; 6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will keep you from all harm — he will watch over your life; 8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Motherhood Chapter 5 Generation Advancer
Ruth 4:13-17 (NIV) 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! 15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” 16 Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 17 The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Your story is a good story and you are not alone in your story. Your current chapter is a link in a chain. Let me encourage you…
Don’t get stuck in a chapter.
Don’t define your life by one chapter. One chapter doesn’t define you so one chapter can’t defeat you.
Carry hope in every chapter.
Be encouraged in what God can do through a life committed to Him and His purposes.
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge 30th President of the Unites States of America
Galatians 6:9 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.