Mothers, God Sees and Knows
Fiona Teong has been reading the book “Treasuring Christ When Your hands Are Full” with the Mums Connect group. She shares a short encouragement and lessons she has learnt from reading this together with the ladies.
In Mums Connect, we reflected together (through our reading of Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full by Gloria Furman) on whether motherhood is a gift and how it shapes our view of God. We’ve come to see that it is – but not a glamorous one. It is often times a refining, sacred calling that unfolds in our hidden, ordinary moments. Whether we are moms at work outside the home or caring for our children full-time, the sacrifices of motherhood matter deeply to God. When we remember that our children are entrusted to us by a loving Heavenly Father, even long hard days take on eternal significance.
We also shared honestly about how easy it is to feel unseen or depleted – especially when our worth gets tangled up with productivity or appearances. At times, this makes it hard to speak openly about the struggles we face in motherhood because subconsciously, we have absorbed the lie that it is not that important. But through God’s Word and the intentionality of sisters in Christ in this season of life, it has helped lift my eyes and remember that God Himself dignifies the role. It has also helped to reorient our hearts when motherhood feels confusing or small.
The gospel reminds me that Jesus entered the ordinary and messy – not to escape it, but to redeem it. And God often does His deepest work through seasons of refinement that feel slow and unremarkable. By the Spirit’s power at work in us (Rom 8:11), these days are not wasted. Learning to see my everyday life as a stay-at-home parent through this lens helps me trust that God is at work, even when little feels visible.