When Life Gets Too Loud

I must say that I can't think of a more fitting title for a sermon on Mother's Day than when life gets too loud. Especially for mother's of young children, the daily noise in a mother's life can be immense and then things get even louder when friends with children come over.

It's not just our kids that our loud, our lives in general our loud. As men and women, human beings, we live with a lot of noise not just on the outside, but internally. We have loud voices in our head...some are louder than others. It's true isn't it? More than a audible voice it's that we're under many influences. We're being swayed in our thoughts, in our small daily decisions, in our big decisions by the many influences that affect us. We're impacted by those influential thoughts that speak loudly and say to us, "You stink as a mom, wife and friend, you'll never be as good as...You've messed up too many times, you're a lost cause, just give up...You are alone...Things will never get better...You're missing out, so you better do more now."

So what do we do with all the noise.... with all the influences? Normally we respond by busting our butts, don't we? We work really hard. We have to keep working to gain the approval we seek from our spouses, from our kids, from our friends, from our employers, from God.

Join us this Mother's Day as we consider another way to live. It's the freedom to live above approval of others and expectations. It's the freedom of living in in the love of the Father who mothers us all.