Dear WELLthy Mom Raising Your Children Like Arrows

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, I thought about you at 3 am when I heard Babygirl’s little steps in the hallway making her way in our bed. Sanctification in the motherhood journey was foreign to me until I became a mom. I had to adjust my sleep habits to accommodate the every 2 hour feeding schedule but their angel faces make it worthwhile.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, being a mom of three has definitely broken me and consecrated me to a state of total dependence to God. When you look in the dictionary for the word sanctify, you’ll probably see the picture of a parent pleading with God to halt the sanctifying process because the struggle is too real some days.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, before you count yourself exempt from the sanctifying process, please know that each of us have either gone through the process, is going through the process or will go through the process. The motherhood journey brings so many raw emotions from those little beings that I am so glad that they somehow have selective memory when it comes to our motherhood mishaps.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, the past few weeks have been exhausting and have stretched Hubby and I in ways we have never felt before. Depending on the day, I would blame it on Babygirl waking up in the middle of the night to make her way in our bed or our oldest coughing all night because of her fighting seasonal allergies or our middle daughter coming in our bed in the middle of the night to look for her baby sister.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, I was tougher with my oldest two but this time around I am simply done with the tough love. Tough love has its place and time to train and correct when necessary but God showed me one night when Babygirl came in our bed and was searching to nest her little hands in mine before proceeding to snore in peace that as much as my emotions were valid, His love for Babygirl and I was more valuable.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, one night broke me to repentance because through the sleepless nights, the pesky fever caused by allergies, the teenage mood swings, I was cranky and exhausted. I had forgotten in that moment the children I prayed for. I had forgotten the overflow of love I felt when I held each one of them in that delivery room and how much I vow to be there for them no matter what. I repented and took my sleepy self in my oldest daughter’s room and laid on the floor next to her bed praying and holding her hands. She told me the next morning how it was the best sleep she had in spite of the coughs knowing that I was there.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, God reminds me often when days are tough that He had chosen me out of all the women on earth to be mom to my three arrows and that I was called to walk the parenting journey as an act of worship unto Him not unto me. Raising my arrows calls me to keep eternity in mind because Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, arrows are designed and crafted for different purpose from target competition to hunting but the fact remain that they are not only intended for a target but they are intended for maximum impact for that particular target otherwise they are simply for show and remain just that.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, God has called us not to raise our arrows with perfect in mind for showcase but rather with practice and progress in mind for the maximum impact in this world. As much as God has called us to train our children in the way that they should go, I believe God is using the parenting journey to train us in the way that we should go.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, I have made peace to the fact that today is not the only day that I will feel like I have failed God and my girls by letting anger, fear or doubt dictate my parenting response to a situation. However God’s grace overflowing is not just for you and I, it’s also intended for us to extend to our children as we train and prepare them to take their rightful position as arrows to expand His Kingdom for His glory.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, no matter what the motherhood journey brings our way, let’s remember that we are equipped and endowed with everything we need to be our child’s mom. God doesn’t make mistakes and He has called us to dust ourselves off and adorn our spiritual armor as we gear each to train our arrows in the way they should go.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, I heard it say many times that yes the struggle is real but so is our God! We have everything it takes to stand our ground and see it that our arrows are released to fly when God deemed them ready but until then let’s remember that those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, this is my prayer for all of us through this sanctifying motherhood journey to remember that we are not meant to mom alone but to surround ourselves with other moms that allows us to be raw and real about our motherhood struggles yet point us to the One who holds the whole world in His hands, including us and our little arrows.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, I came across this powerful parenting movie “Like Arrows” produced by Family Life and the Kendrick Brothers that is currently available for purchase along with the book. I encourage you to make it your priority to get it because God wants to encourage you to stay the course in this beautiful chaos that is the motherhood journey.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, we both know that raising our little arrows in this world based on God’s Word and ways is counter cultural and the reason why we need to stay anchored and focused on the divine task at hand because greater is He that is in us than he that is in this world.

Dear WELLthy Mom raising your children like arrows, we need to keep eternity in mind at all times and remember our calling because God who began a good work in us when we conceived and gave birth to our arrows will bring it to completion. That is the WELLthy way to go and here’s to us raising together mighty arrows to intend maximum impact in who God has called them to be!

Here are some helpful resources along with the trailer for the movie: