{"id":2329,"date":"2021-01-13T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:06:23","slug":"when-motherhood-feels-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2021\/01\/13\/when-motherhood-feels-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"When Motherhood Feels Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the start of my newest piece for The Gospel Coalition<\/a>. You can read the entire article here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

I mentally ticked down the clock until bedtime: nine hours to go.<\/strong> It was only 11 a.m. Already I was fighting ennui\u2014not because I don\u2019t love my children but because the day stretched ahead of me with the same activities I\u2019d been doing for days before and would be doing for days afterward.<\/p>\n

I am deeply grateful to be a mother. But if I\u2019m honest, sometimes the work feels . . . boring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Particularly this year, many of us have been with our children, and only our children, for most waking hours. Days and weeks stretch ahead and behind in blurry sameness. Much of our work as mothers\u2014whether we\u2019re at home full-time or not\u2014requires repeated tasks. Washing bodies and clothes and dishes, preparing meals and snacks and drinks, driving the same routes to grocery stores and pharmacies and school and church, over and over again.<\/p>\n

But in this season of mothering, I\u2019ve taken great encouragement from the ways God\u2019s Word helps to reframe what often feels, to me, like boredom.<\/p>\n

Sameness \u2260\u00a0Monotony<\/h3>\n

From a biblical perspective, sameness does not equal monotony. The Word declares that \u201cJesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever\u201d (Heb. 13:8<\/a>), and that every gift we have been given is from the Father \u201cwith whom there is no variation or shadow due to change\u201d (James 1:17<\/a>). God is, wonderfully, always the same. He does not change his mind about us. He is consistent in his character and unshakeable in his glory. His law remains, and his truth will endure for all time.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article over at The Gospel Coalition<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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