The Motherhood Journey Newsletter - Week 19

“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Eph 4:32

Hello sweet Mummas,

Oh Welcome Mumma! Nice to see you on the email today. As we gather for a few minutes together to spur each other on in good works I hope and pray that at the end of this email your shoulders would feel a little lighter and your smile will grow a little brighter as you realign your eyes onto the only ONE who can bring you true comfort and joy.

In this space as always, rather then focusing on how our circumstance can change - we are pressing forward to change the way we SEE so that our joy is not rocky, our peace is not reliant on others and our hope is stead fast on the rock. Let’s do this mummas!

Real Life in the motherhood journey:

A little glimpse from our week!

This week was fun! We had a few highlights and also some tough moments (motherhood right?!). We continued healing from our sickness, we were home bound as my husband worked on the car, we had a date night out (which was super special as it was our first one since moving to the country) and also visited a friends church which was rich with fellowship and honour toward the Lord. Amongst this we had many ‘mummy’ moments of kids fighting nap time, school work that needed to be done, school work that was full of inspiration and a poopy incident which was smeared all over the floor with a toy car (praise the Lord this was outside. butttt still not our best moment!). Enjoy the pics oh and p.s our flowers are starting to bloom. eeeep we can smell your incoming SPRING!

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Ways I stay active as a mumma!!

Have you heard the saying, “ The more you do the less tired you feel?”. When I am wanting to veg out more, I often find myself doing ‘non life giving’ activities which build both my tiredness + my fleshly ‘rights’ which can make me grumpy. I have found that in most cases that when I choose to deny my flesh and just pop up I get on a roll and desire to do more. I see the win (like making my bed) and I keep going onto the next. Here are some ways I move my body. I would love to be doing more/different things to this. But its where I’m at currently. I would loooove to hear ideas of how you slip in little movements as a mumma into your life that make you feel good? Email me back!!

First: As soon as I wake I like to do a mini pilates stretch and core exercises on my bedroom floor. This really helps me not have aches and pains and I love strenthcing out my legs, feet, back and arms. Let me know if you wana know the exact exercises I do?

Then: I am trying to do a little run in my fields every second day. Once all the kids are down for rest time (my husband works from home) I pop out for literally 10 mins and do laps up and down the fields. I have just added in doing some strength training from my arms with my husbands weights for 5 minutes. I love this as it gets me out breathing deep in nature and also gets me to deny my flesh. It is so short, but I’m a big believer to just do it rather than weight for the ideal circumstances. its all about consistancy.

Also: Outside of this I’m moving all day, dancing with my kids, cleaning up and we do a family walk each morning into the woods for around 30 mins.

What do you do?

Walking in His truth:

This week mummas I wana share with you some Godly encouragement in training up our children in the way they should go. To train them. Not expect of them or respond with frustration that they aren’t walking in goodness all the time. But instead put in the effort to train them - diligently.

I heard a mumma say that each time she would hear (one of her 6 children) squabbling she would drop everything, run over, sit infront of them and recite this verse to them:

^“ Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. “
Eph 4: 29 + 32

She would then talk through the disagreement with each child and make sure they reconciled.

I was amazed at this. The amount of intentionality and effort. The firmness to hold a value as a family to not allow discord and hold a strong value in unity and respect amongst brothers and sisters. What I also honoured was the fact that this bible verse would have been said sooo many times over that it would be stuck in their heads and they would have clear direction in the future whenever they came across a situation that temped them to function in the flesh.

Although I don’t think its always needed for us to step in, I value this highly in the form and importance of training when children may not be in a maturity where they can figure it out on their own.

May this encourage your hearts mummas as it did mine this week.

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.