Are you weary? Do you feel like your efforts to mother well, wife well, friend well or love well are a lost effort? When we are deep in the trenches of motherhood, wifehood, and life we frequently cannot see the fruit of all of our work. It can feel overwhelming when our days and weeks of disciplining and training up our children run into each other with little realization of the beauty that takes place in our home.
God tells us in Luke 21:19 that “By your perseverance, you will secure your lives!” But do we believe it? The enemy can be utterly relentless in his efforts to trick us into believing our efforts are lost in vain. Yet, it is little by little that we move forward in progress and love. This week, I pray that we can all trust enough that we persevere through the difficult and the hard, so we may have the grace and joy of recognizing the beauty and fruit which God plans to bring forth from all of the Yeses we say to the work He has laid out before us.