The Motherhood Journey Newseltter Week 17

“ And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Cor: 12:9

Hello sweet Mummas,

Welcome to another week! A week of giggles, a week with our champions, a week of knowing the Father through each high and low. He is there with you, watching over you with pleasure as you serve. Let’s do this together mummas!

Wherever you land reading this right now, know this….

Amongst the Vegemite smiles, amongst the milk poured all on the floor, amongst the tantrums or lack of sleep: no one around you needs to change before you do. You are the essence and fragrance and life of the home. You cant control others or circumstances. But you CAN choose who you are going to show up as… with the Help of the Holy Spirit. Nothing is stopping you being the mum you want to be except your own brain.

Let’s do this thing together mummas!!

Real Life in the motherhood journey:

A little glimpse from our week!

We don’t have too much to report on this week other the normal joyous mundanes that make up country life with four kiddos. We did school work, went for family walks each morning, did errands and played together. We started our first little journey of being gluten and reined sugar free which has been fun thinking up new recipes. My period also returned this week for the first time since birth - which tomorrows ‘girly chat’ podcast is going to be sharing more importance of the significance of that. I have felt a holiness of Gods sacred hand this week in experiencing a season of releasing (Flo turning one soon and no longer a baby) and my body preparing for the next adventure to come. Because of this, days have been slow and closely knit with Holy Spirit, which it should always be right….

Get some ideas!

How meal times have changed; hopefully you can get some inspo:

Breakfast
Was: Sourdough toast with scrambled eggs and sauerkraut
Now: Baked potato smashed and cooked in butter, scrambled eggs with tomato relish and sauerkraut

Lunch:
Was: Left overs OR Sourdough with toppings
Now: Left overs OR Chia seed puddings (YUM!) and GF english muffins with toppings

Dinner:
All of our normal meals however we now arent having pasta or a bread component (which I did alot since sourdough add ons to soup or curry is just the best right?)
Now we are doing more meat and veg, rice dishes or grain free lassanga ect.

In between is pretty usual with greek yogurt bowls, smoothies and lots of now GF baked goods. cause you gotta have baked goods straight out of the oven multiple times a week when your home all the time 😄 . A cup of tea and a warm cookie is all I need!!!

Walking in His truth:
 My encourgaement for you mummas this week is that YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH. ahhhhhh peace. Let a big breathe out and let this reality in. Cause when you grasp this you can now stop trying so hard.

We have soo many voices saying we need to be enough or more or better or like someone else in sooo many areas of motherhood. In this age where we have at our finger tips everyones lives and opinons we can feel drowned by expectation.

Something that I need to do constanstatly is slow my pace down, refigure out my priorities and make sure my mind is set and my hands are geared to work on only what the Lord says. Let everything else drop.

Truely mumma, His GRACE alone is PERFECT in each area of our weakness. Just let Him in and let Him be ENOUGH. In this place you can go from trying to survive and enjoy thriving in motherhood!!!

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If you follow my insta you will see that I did a reel about being ‘enough’ in motherhood because I heard this song ‘The Truth’ by Megan woods. It moved my heart instantly to our motherhood journey. These key lines stood out to me:

How many times can you hear the same lie
Before you start to believe it?
The enemy keeps whisperin' to me
I swear these days it's all that I'm hearin'

When I feel like there's so much noise
Livin' rent-free in my head
Heaven finds me in a still small voice
And it sounds like grace instead

The truth is I am truly loved
By a God who's good when I'm not good enough
I don't belong to the lies, I belong to You
And that's the truth

If you havent heard this song, I encourage you to go listen to it on repeat, especially if you need a little slap in the face of the reality of God in the midst of an ever consuming world of distraction.

Love always
Ellie from - The Motherhood Journey x

p.s Im always here for a chat! My heart is to go deeper with you mummas in these emails. So if anything stands out to you or you wana chat more, shoot me back a reply! I love journeying alongside you.