I Single Parent

I single parent, mother to one son age 10, am truly beginning to embrace motherhood in a way that I probably wouldn’t be able to conceive had I not been walking hand in hand with my heavenly Father.

After surviving multiple trips to the emergency room for nebulizer treatments, a negative phone call from a teacher at his school, dozens of evasive questions about the dissolved relationship between his father and me, I truly felt like I wasn’t fully equipped for this single-parenting concept. After many more tears, trials and tribulations, here I am still standing and loving being a single mother. I stumble, I fall, I feel inadequate and the other day I had to laugh at myself for pulling up instructions on Youtube.com to tie my son’s tie for church.

I truly believe that God extends His hand of grace towards the clueless and in that manner of respect I am so thankful that He hasn’t revoked my parenting privileges. You may laugh and think that I’ve lost all sense and sensibility but I truly have learned to allow God to lead and guide me not only through single parenting but in every aspect of my life. I believe that God’s word really is my parenting manual. Sometimes it becomes critical to remind myself that God’s strength is made perfect in my weakness (2 Corinthians 12:19).

So when I was laid off (thrice), car repossessed (also three times), I had to learn how to proclaim that the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want (Psalm 23:1) and that He would provide my needs according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4:19).

Then there was the time when my son caught some highly contagious stomach flu bug and was admitted in the hospital for severe dehydration, God brought to my remembrance that Jesus died for our transgressions and by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).

When my son comes home from school with assignments that are difficult, I encourage him to recite our memory verse