Recently I attended a wives workshop. And I have to be honest when I was first invited to the event it was presented as a women’s conference, which in my mind is very different from a wives workshop. When I got the official invitation, I was less than impressed. A workshop to me spells out work which is in the dang title. I have enough work to do at the moment between spending time with the Lord, keeping Allie alive, trying to be a decent wife to my hubby, keeping up with our home, meals on the table, and somewhere in the midst of all that shower. Taking time away from my family to be given a lecture on what I am doing wrong and a list of what I should be doing right was not the fun outing I had thought it was going to be.
Man was I wrong! I am so grateful that my hubby encouraged me to go and listened to his discernment. That workshop is just what I needed, though it was nothing like I judged it would be. The woman who took the time to pour into us was a seasoned wife for over 30 years with 4 beautifully grown children and she just poured scripture into us. One of my favorite take aways from that day was how she broke down 1 Corinthians 13, specifically the first 3 verses through the eyes of a wife and a mother.
1 Corinthians 13: 1-3
“If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.”
As a momma, if I speak to my baby without love the words I say will be nothing more than the sound of clanging cymbals. I may have all the wisdom and knowledge to guide and protect my child but if I don’t from love it means nothing. If I spend all my days pouring out for my family and sacrifice myself for my children but it doesn’t come from a place of love, it means nothing.
The idea of all that I am doing being done for nothing broke my heart. I try hard to do all that I do from love every day but there are days where I do what I do because I have to. There are moments when I am bitter, touched out, and just over it. I go through the motions of what I know I should do but it isn’t coming from a place of love. Though being called to be a momma is one of the greatest privileges in my life, the idea of trying to do everything from love is daunting. Thankfully this love is not one that I nor you have to produce or fabricate on our own. This love is an overflow and outpour from the love that Christ has for you and I. This outpour of love is available to us daily by taking moments to spend time with Jesus and read His Word. During this section of the workshop I was greatly encouraged to spend time with the Lord, even if that looks like reading a daily devotional or hanging scripture around the house to read for you. However you can get in time with the Lord and read His word, do it. Let God’s love for you fill your heart and overflow into every aspect of being a momma.
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