If you're a Christian mom raising a middle schooler and you constantly feel like your mind is running in 10 different directions, driving, planning, organizing, solving problems, caring for everyone else, but somehow you still light awake at night thinking about. Everything you forgot, everything you need to do and everything that might go wrong, there is a reason for that feeling, and it is not because you need to try harder.
In this episode, we're going to look at a moment in scripture where Jesus spoke directly to a woman who felt exactly the same way, pulled in many directions, and what he said reveals a powerful shift that can restore peace to a busy mom's mind. Welcome to the Faith Mom Mentor, the podcast for moms who want more than surface level faith for themselves and their kids.
I'm Anne, and if you're a mom who feels unsure where to start, spiritually worries. You're not teaching your kids enough and wants a calmer, more confident faith at home. You are in the right place here. We cut through the noise and get grounded in truth. Each episode helps you know God deeply, teach your tween faithfully and build a home that feels strong, steady, and Christ-centered even in the middle school years.
If you are ready to stop guessing, start leading with confidence and grow a faith, your family can actually live out. You are in the right place. Welcome to the Faith Mom. Mentor. If you are raising a middle schooler, life can feel like a constant stream of responsibilities. School schedules, practices, dinners, laundry, church responsibilities, work responsibilities, and somehow inside all of that, you are trying to raise a child who truly knows God.
You love your family, you love the Lord, you are doing good things. Sometimes your mind feels full of noise, and when our minds are full of noise, it becomes hard to hear the voice of God. Jesus addressed this exact struggle in Luke 10. He walked into the home of two sisters who both loved him, both welcomed him, both wanted to honor him, but they.
Bonded to his presence in very different ways. One sister, Martha, immediately began preparing and working. The other sister Mary sat down and listened to Jesus. And then Jesus said something that reveals the hidden struggle many moms experienced today. He said, Martha, Martha, you are careful and troubled about many things.
Careful, troubled. Pulled in many directions that were distracted in. The passage literally means to be pulled apart, dragged in different directions, divided in attention. And when attention becomes divided, anxiety follows because anxiety tends to appear when our minds are filled with noise instead of truth.
Maybe you recognize that feeling. You woke up in the morning and your mind immediately starts running. Your tween needs to help the school. There's a practice tonight. Dinner has to be made. Laundry is waiting. Your phone is buzzing. Church responsibilities, work responsibilities. And somewhere inside all of that, you quietly wonder, why do I feel like I'm doing this all alone?
But here is the powerful insight from Luke 10. Jesus did not say Martha was wrong for serving. Serving was not the problem. The problem was distraction while serving. Her mind was divided. Her thoughts were raised and her attention was scattered. But Mary chose something different. The Bible says that she sat at the feet of Jesus and listened to his word.
Her attention was direct, intentional, focused, and Jesus called the choice the good part, and he said, Mary had chosen that. Something that would not be taken from her. Think about that. Meals disappear. Housework, pizza tomorrow. Preparation is temporary, but the word of God deposits something eternal in our soul.
Let me tell you a simple story from my own home that revealed something important to me. Years ago, my husband stopped doing the laundry. The reason one day he left one washcloth in a shower and I fussed at him for not putting everything to wash in the laundry. I told him if he was going to do the laundry, he needed to do all of it.
Well, after that, he stopped doing the laundry for years, which meant guess who ended up doing the laundry? Yep. Me. Eventually I realized something. The problem was not the washcloth, the problem was my distracted life. At that time, I was working full-time, raising two children, managing our home, serving women's ministries director, teaching at church, helping.
In many ways I was serving everywhere, but why I quietly stopped practicing the need. The one needful thing, daily time listening to God through his word, and when that disappeared, my peace disappeared too. But when I return to daily undistracted communion with God. Everything began to change. One reason I'm able to maintain that today is because systems now protect my time Structure reduces chaos.
When responsibilities are organized, your attention is no longer scattered in 10 different directions. This is something that helped me to tremendously through a program called Systemize Your Life. It teaches. Simple systems that help busy moms organize responsibility so their attention is no longer constantly divided.
Inside the program, you learn to practice tools like the five time blocking system routine stacking to simplify daily rhythms, a job based tour system that shares responsibility in the home zone, cleaning systems, meal planning systems, calendar management. Planning rhythms with your spouse. These systems reduce chaos so you can protect the most important priority time with God and intentional investment in your family.
If that sounds helpful to you, I will link that program in the show notes and if you want to hear more about how systems can support. Busy Christian mom, I highly recommend you listen to episode 16, how to create systems that actually support Busy Moms with Chelsea. Joe. That conversation walks through how simple structures can bring calm and clarity back into your home.
Here's the transformation. Jesus pointed Martha, toward a life that feels scattered, pressed, pulled in many directions, can become a life that is anchored, calm, spiritually strong. The difference is not necessarily doing less the differences, protecting the one thing that matters most. Listening to the word of God, meals disappear.
Preparation is temporary, but the word of God remains. Jesus said, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. Here is the one small step you can take today. Ask yourself this question. What is currently crowding out my time with the Lord? Is it unclear responsibilities, constant noise or systems in my home that quietly place everything on my shoulders once you identify the pressure point?
Change becomes possible. Before you go, remember this, you are doing sacred work as you nurture faith in your home, and it matters more than you realize. Thank you for choosing to spend this time growing stronger and steadier in truth. If today helped you take one more step. Forward Head to Life and peace ministries.com for simple faith field resources designed to support you as you know God deeply and teach your tween faithfully, including faith, mom t-shirts, and ways to connect for speaking and faith mentoring.
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