Just as we love to lavish gifts on our children at Christmas, even when they don’t deserve it, so does our Father lavish his undeserved grace on us—all year long.

Rather than looking around to other moms for the “right” way to parent, we can fix our eyes on Christ, who will give us all the grace we need for our specific situation and family.

As a spiritual father to many in the early church, the apostle Paul gives us a model for how to instruct our children in a grace-based way.

Intentionally seeking out evidence of God’s grace—in ourselves, our children, and even our circumstances—is a powerful and practical way to battle discouragement in motherhood.

Motherhood is an opportunity to humbly acknowledge our sins and shortcomings—and to point our kids to Christ as the Savior we all need.

As we stop to enjoy the physical nourishment God provides, we see reflections of his greater spiritual provision for us in Christ.

God’s relationship with his children reminds us that discipline and grace can work in tandem, helping us parent our own kids towards both a right obedience and a right worship.

Moms can be gentle tools, used by the Lord to form our children into the image of Christ.

We may not be the moms we thought we’d be, but in Christ, we can be moms who cling to the cross and rest in God’s sufficiency.

In our pain and grief, lament leads us back to trusting the grace of God.

Our bruises can tempt us to be hardhearted and unforgiving. But when we look to the broken body of Christ, we realize we can give grace, because we have received it in abundance.

We often spend our days believing we can mother in our own strength. But it’s okay to acknowledge our weakness—that’s when we see our need for Christ.