Practice the Art of Reimaging

Motherhood is both a lesson in practice and art. It rarely comes easy, yet if we continue to show up, it births countless joys along with endless challenges, all woven together to create a beautiful, imperfect legacy.

But sometimes the hurdles take center stage, and we have trouble seeing beyond our own inadequacies. The smallest challenge can send our self-image spiraling into the abyss of defeat and discouragement.

Often, we begin the day with our best foot forward only to find ourselves tripping and stumbling through constantly changing terrain. And being thankful or cherishing?…well sometimes it’s enough to just pick ourselves up and muster the energy needed to make it through another day.

If this describes your day or week, the good news is it will pass, and tomorrow always holds promise and hope. Still, it’s important to both recognize and equip ourselves with the tools to navigate motherhood with strength and gratitude.

Learning to cherish motherhood means also learning to take inventory of how these sometimes rugged terrains affect and even corrupt our motherboard…our operating system, memory, and data files which gather and process all of our experiences.

When we find ourselves swimming in discouragement, self-doubt and defeat, unable to find solid grounding and feel as if we’re swimming upstream, it’s time to consider reimaging.

Similar to the process of restoring a computer, reimaging is a process of reformatting and repairing our operating system – our thoughts, emotions, patterns, and perspectives to equip, enable and empower. It’s the process of getting ourselves realigned with our calling.

Reimaging empowers us to move fluidly and confidently through challenging and changing roles.

Reimaging reformats our damaged and sabotaging thought patterns.

Reimaging aligns our emotions and behavior for greater long-term stability.

Reimaging enables us to progress through changing needs and circumstances with a clear purpose.

Reimaging restores a big picture view of our motherhood legacy.

I like to think of the art of reimaging as a daily or weekly do-over. It’s an opportunity to restore ourselves to an earlier point, before we began spiraling and before our thoughts and emotions carried us where we never meant to go.

Back Up Our Hard Drive

I know this sounds strange, especially when we’re not talking about the health of our computer. But if you think about it, our brain is very much like a computer…a super computer. It stores more than we’ll ever be able to access, and it also serves as a timeline of memories, experiences and truth. During difficult, stressful times it’s easy to forget what’s important and valuable. Learning to back-up the best parts of motherhood, the memories, the treasures, the truth of why we’re on this path has a great deal of power to center and focus us when necessary.

Cherishing motherhood means choosing to remember the priceless pieces of a worthy calling. Share on X

Scan Our Database

It is so easy to just live out each day playing catch-up, especially when the task and responsibilities of motherhood never end. It’s also easy to lose sight of how everything is getting stored in our thoughts and our heart. Choosing to be intentional in scanning and locating the lies and daggers which are corrupting our thoughts. The lies causing us to be reactive instead of proactive. The lies damaging our view and perspective.

Cherishing motherhood means choosing to be proactive instead of reactive. Share on X

Replace the Corrupt Files

We always have the option to restore our heart and mind to an earlier point in time. A time before we became overwhelmed. A time before we sank into self-loathing. A time before we let our thoughts and emotions get the best of us. What an amazing gift!

We always have the option to replace the lies or the corrupt files that so often lead our mother hearts astray. And we don’t have to simply rely on self-talk. The key to replacing lies is to replace them with the truth of God’s word. The truth of who God says we are, even when the image we see in the mirror tells us otherwise. The truth of how profound our calling is, even when our emotions swallow up the promise of another day.

This is how we restore ourselves to the hope of our calling. This is how we restore our perspective on motherhood.

This is how we guard our heart and the gift of motherhood.

Cherishing motherhood means choosing to believe in a calling beyond the trials of today. Share on X

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