Moms, we are not alone.

Being “mama” is hard. It is so busy and exhausting. It’s repetitive and it is a constant learning curve. It’s beautiful and it’s incredibly humbling. There’s absolutely nothing like having kids that teaches you that you don’t have life figured out and you really don’t have control as much as we’d like to think we do. It’s refining and it’s brought me to my knees time and time again.

As I ventured into motherhood as a fairly young mom, there were so many times that I felt alone. I thought that I just had to be the only one up in the middle of the night. I had to be the only one who was struggling with exhaustion that you only really know after you have a newborn baby.

The days were long after my husband went back to work and as I tried to figure out my new role. It was full of more emotions than I ever could have ever imagined. The highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Stress, worry and anxiety that soon followed with laughter, snuggles and more love than I could handle.

Call it hormones, postpartum anxiety or just a stress over a major life change, but all I know is that as I look back with a clearer view, it was just plain hard at times. The nights felt like they would never end, the worry over those new, precious lives was so real and so valid. The up and down and lack of routine during the day was hard on my “want to be in control” personality. The days of breastfeeding a baby while making dinner are now just a distant memory and I sometimes wonder how I did it with having three little girls so close together.

Even though there is still so much I have to learn as motherhood is constantly changing and I am entering different seasons, I do know that when I felt alone, I wasn’t. When I was exhausted, God gave me energy to get through those long days and even longer nights. When I was struggling with anxiety and couldn’t even name it, He saw me through. Motherhood is a true reflection of God’s love for us. We need Him just as our babies need us. Just as we love our babies more than we could have ever imagined, He loves us all the more. So sweet mamas, when we feel as if we are alone in our season, let us remember that we have someone walking with us each step of the way.