As a mom of a now 2 year old and 7 month old, life has been quite frankly utterly insane. Navigating motherhood is like a constant cycle of evolution with lots of prayer you are evolving in the direction God would have you go. A lot of things have been on my heart lately and as I have begun to work on myself and strive to break generation curses that have affected me, a specific theme has weighed heavy. This theme is "striving vs. abiding". I think this leads into a lot of things from questions, to statements and really looking inward. Personally God has been speaking this to me in a few realms, contentment being a big one and also reliance. Our culture pushes us to constantly strive to be better and I have noticed this targets moms quite heavily. Now striving toward goals and to better oneself is not inherently bad, however like anything when you devote to much to it or perhaps even begin to worship the idea, goal etc it becomes toxic and perhaps even an idol. I will ...