Mother’s are like salt. They are the seasoning that keeps the family from spoiling. But what happens to the family when Mom loses her saltiness?
She is not a wimp (far from it). She has raised her children, held down a job, has gotten her education and kept her family together. But no matter how strong or resourceful she has been or remains, she can be rated for pressure just like the psi on a tire.
There is a point of pressure that can become too much to bear alone. She is human after all. Much like how Jesus asked his disciples to pray with him when His burden was heavy before His Crucifixion, a mom can become pressed beyond measure and may need help.
She may smile while all the while her head is about to pop off because she is a doer. When you are a doer, you don’t measure the pressure. You just do what needs to be done..continually taking on more and more.
The family doesn’t recognize that Mom may be going through somethings herself while she is busy attending to their needs, that she is barely hanging on to what little she has left to give.
The collateral damage of always giving has left her depleted because while she is busy giving and doing, nobody has seen that she needs to be given to as well. Mom knows how to work and give better than she knows how to ask for help.
Heavy and tired, stripped of every emotion, Mom goes to her God in prayer. She cannot do this alone. God reminds her that there is deliverance in pressure and when the pressure eases (and it will ease) there will be a glory, power, strength and blessing that wasn’t there before.
Smile Mom’s! This too shall pass
