Comments on: For The Mom Who Feels Insignificant

By: Kayse

Kayse — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:41:24 +0000

In reply to April. I don't think you're late at all. ? I'm so glad it encouraged you!!

By: April

April — Mon, 13 May 2019 17:48:12 +0000

I found this post on Pinterest. I know I’m late, but I have to tell you, as a mother of 5, this post has me bawling my eyes out. My kids range in age from 22 (and married) down to 3. Motherhood is simultaneously the best and hardest thing I have ever done. Thank you for this beautiful post. It spoke straight to my heart. God is so good to have directed me to your site!
Many blessings,
April

By: Katie B

Katie B — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:10:54 +0000

Kayse,
Last night I came home in tears to my husband and I didn’t know why I was so sad. We talked it out and figured out that I was seeking affirmation from everything around me – and last night I didn’t get any – from anywhere or anyone and I was totally deflated.
God broke me last night so I could realize this issue and address it.
I really didn’t know where to start, what to think about or how to go forward without trying to get affirmation from outside of God …and here’s your post. It was perfect in it’s wording and timing 🙂
Thank you so much,
Katie

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:19:15 +0000

In reply to Kameron.

Hi Kameron!
Hope you are well and getting to be with your sweet baby. Your post touched me and I wanted to reach out.
Reading “In Praise of Stay at Home Moms” helped seal the deal for me.
Sending momma love your way,
Shawna

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:47:25 +0000

This is so encouraging, thank you!!! Absolutely agree that the world sets us up for self validation and then…motherhood is not about us 🙂 SO much to learn. This week I just read Isaiah 40 verse 11 and thought about it in connection with Christian motherhood, so I am so encouraged to see it here too.

By: Kameron

Kameron — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:41:36 +0000

I sit here at 4am with my sick, congested 5 month old across my lap reading your wonderful blog. Over the past couple of years I’ve struggled with God’s plans for my career. I have a Masters in Psychology but He has closed that door for me repeatedly. Now I work full time at a job I don’t really love. I’m about to return full time after maternity leave and all I want to do is quit so I can be home to raise my munchkin. I’m feeling more and more that to do that is God’s calling for me… simply to be mom. And it’s soooo hard to jump in with faith that He will provide for our family if I do. Right now I’m on a path I never planned and I feel like I’m gong to fail daily. I’m trying to start a blog in hopes that will allow me to quit my job. But I feel hopeless about it all, even though I can feel it in my core that this is God’s plan for me. This blog is everything I needed to hear. Thank you soooo much! And sorry about the novel.

By: D

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 05:49:20 +0000

I definitely needed to hear this today! I have played this over in my mind for weeks or maybe months now. Sometimes in just tears when my husband comes home from work or from being out of town. I often feel the “need” to work and feel worthless. But I also know everything I am giving to my children daily could not be replaced by somebody else.

Thank you so much for writing this!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:19:04 +0000

Hi Kayse,

Thank you so much for writing this. It was exactly what I needed to hear!

xoxo,
Natalie

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:06:18 +0000

Thanks for the post. I shared it with a friend who was struggling with this when we talked today. Thanks so much!

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:09:21 +0000

Oh man. This is beyond perfect. You captured exactly what I have felt for almost 2 years. (My son will be 2 in October.) Like you, I was “good” at school and received plenty of praise throughout my life for academic accomplishments. I made it through nursing school, graduating with honors, and was feeling pretty highly about myself. And then I got married a month after graduating and was pregnant before we celebrated our first anniversary. A high risk pregnancy that ended in me leaving my job to be on bedrest and becoming a stay-at-home mom shortly thereafter. I wanted to be home with my son, but I had no idea how hard, and sometimes isolating, it can be. I get the comments from random people about when I plan to go back to work, and the condescending “pat on the head” looks, like what I do is cute, but not meaningful or important. A pretty significant contrast from the reactions I got when people found out I was a nurse. But the vocation of mother has humbled me. It doesn’t feed my ego, for sure, but it fills my heart. It has made me redefine what success means to me in this phase of my life. Right now, my roles as wife and mother are my primary focus, and I believe that God will use this time to mold me into the woman He’s calling me to be.