Podcast 11 - Navigating Motherhood with Adult Children

I am focusing today on how to walk alongside adult children in a season where your role is changing. I had this question come to my mind, "How do we discern when we are being God’s hands—helping, supporting, and standing beside our children—and when we are unknowingly getting in the way of His greater work by trying to rescue them from suffering?"   I thought of Mary. She carried Jesus, nurtured Him, loved Him with a mother’s heart—and then she watched Him suffer for the sake of all mankind. Surely, if it were possible, every maternal instinct within her would have wanted to stop it. To intervene. To protect Him from pain. Yet Mary did not cling to her own will. She surrendered to God’s. She trusted that God’s purpose, though unimaginably painful, was greater than her instinct to rescue. Her obedience did not mean she loved her Son any less—it meant she trusted God more.   In this episode, I visit the situation that happens when adult children expect us to step in—because we always have—and how restraint can feel like rejection. Taking on these new perceptions: 
I can love without fixing.
I can support without removing consequences.
I can stay connected without taking over. A question to ask ourselves when the urge to rescue rises, pause and ask:
“Am I being invited to act… or to trust?” And then:
“Will stepping in here strengthen my child’s dependence on God—or on me?”   We cover this and more as we learn to take on a new role of motherhood. website: https://realpositivechange.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathyfreemanart/