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I’ve had this piece of paper next to my bathroom sink for a year and a half. Most days I don’t even look at it anymore. But initially each time I caught a glimpse of it, I’d breathe really deep, unsure if I could live out what I’d been called to.
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It was the fruit of my study in Luke. Chapter 18 captured me for four months, the end of which held Jesus’ third foretelling of His death. As I studied the passages surrounding each foretelling, these are the main themes and declarations I discovered. I couldn’t take it all in at once, so I made this list.
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A year and a half later, and I am not the same. He’s used these simple but staggering bullet points to call me deeper into the way of the cross, to release me from the grips of my kingdom, and to draw me into fellowship with Himself—the God who denied Himself of every right, who became the least, the most lowly and humble, entrusted Himself not to man but the Father, and embraced the cross to give me life.
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This paper is simple, but because it captures Scripture and draws me there, it’s powerful. I’m making another one today to replace it, unsure of how else to take in all that the Lord is teaching me. I thought I’d share this one before I threw it away. Maybe I’ll share in another year and a half how God has supernaturally changed my life through this simple method of abiding in His Word.
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Control makes us stiff.
Compassion makes us move.
Control hardens our hearts and clenches our fists.
Compassion makes us tender, open-handed, accepting.
Control sees others as either a hindrance or a servant to what we want.
Compassion sees others as they are—sinners in need of mercy, truth, and grace.
Control is the fruit of the heart that doesn’t trust that the Father will provide everything they need.
Compassion flows from the heart that’s been humbled by the mercy God has shown her, from the heart content in the Father’s love.
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#risenmotherhood #motherhoodissanctifying #thenursingseries #wordsworthnoting

I read 1 Thessalonians shortly after arriving home from the hospital and wept. Paul references nursing mothers and a pregnant woman, and nearly every chapter contains the word “labor” in it.
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I wept mostly because of the affection I felt from the Lord over this verse and the two following it. My labor and delivery was potentially the most intense experience of my life thus far, and as I process it, all I can do is cry and say, “Thank you, God.”
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I’m eager to study more of this book and take in the sweetness of relationship Paul has with these believers. I see so much of what I desire to be true in my relationship with my children, and I praise Him for the Word that teaches, trains, and ultimately transforms me for this good work.
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#risenmotherhood #wordsworthnoting

The dance has already begun, and I’m not sure I know the steps. Shepherding two little hearts entrusted to us to love one another above themselves.
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To see one another not as an imposition to what they want, but as God’s gift to each of them. As their nearest neighbor God gave them to learn their need of Christ and the ways of Christ—considering one another more significant than themselves, serving one another, delighting in laying their lives down for the good of the other.
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The dance is hard, yet sweet. Perplexing, yet rewarding. Sanctifying and sacred. Requiring discipline and grace. But isn’t it the dance God has been teaching me through motherhood all along?
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#risenmotherhood #wordsworthnoting

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