Dear Mom

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. —Exodus 20:12

Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. —Mark 10:29–30

Put the goals and interests of

above your own.

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. —Philippians 2:3–4

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. —Psalm 127:1–2

Parenting is a

with God.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. —Proverbs 22:6

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. —Psalm 127:3–5

Do I see children as a

or a burden?

4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. —Deuteronomy 6:4–9

The Way

The Way

The Way

K.I.D.S.

> But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. —1 Thessalonians 2:7

> Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, —Proverbs 1:8

> Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart. —Proverbs 29:17

Power

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. —Proverbs 31:28–31