“Getting off the Roller Coaster of Emotions”…
As Hurting Moms, we experience many painful and debilitating emotions. We can’t seem to move past them and even during the times we are feeling pretty good, in the back of our minds is the fear that the next “drop” is right around the corner.
Although we cannot control the actions of our children, we can control our reactions to them. Scripture shows us that our reactions to our child’s behavior can cause us to feel separated from God and our emotions contribute to how we are reacting. We are instructed and time again to put our trust in Him and to turn away from our damaging emotional responses.
That may sound impossible, but God’s word assures us that, if we allow Him too, He will come close to bear our burdens and share our pain. His presence will be reassuring and strengthening. Picture Him holding out His hand to help you off the roller coaster as He says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28 NIV)
Throughout the month of September, we will be examining some of the specific emotions we experience, and we will look at what God says about them and how we can move beyond them.
What emotions you are experiencing today?
Using one word, describe your most prevalent emotion in the comments below.
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Worry
I worry constantly that my will never move on he is 27 & was envolved with people doing drugs for 2 years & even tho he did some conselling (addiction ) he tells us he has stopped but he dosnt seem to have any ambitiom E wont look for work, & just continue to do nothing positive with his life , he seems stuck in a rutt& pretends to his father & I that he is ok when we know that he is not, we don’t know how to help him anymore, I just keep praying that he will want a life better than this for himself.
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I know the pain of being a mom my oldest son is in prison has been for years my next to oldest son is also there he is due to come home in a few months I have not talked to my oldest son in two years I worry a lot about him he had stomach cancer several years back he had a son I have raised him since he was 8 days old he is now almost 19 he has made a great kid but I don’t know how to deal with all my feelings I get so depressed sometimes I have lost my family to death my brother was very dear to me I lost him in June lm sorry did not mean to write a book
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Sanny
We have a new blog series running on our FB page titled “The 12 Days of Healing”. It will be posted hear at the conclusion of the series or you can check them out on FB. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/pg/HurtingMoms/notes/?ref=page_internal. The series is 12 days long and finishes with a FB Live talk show event on December 22nd.
I don’t necessarily feel this way but it is good to talk about it because it can help someone. More ever reading this stuff helps me to understand a different perspective. It’s interesting to see how different people feel about different topics and subjects.
My 17 year old son just left our home before Christmas. It had been a long journey of poor choices, stealing medication, drug experimentation, 90 day rehab out of state, a suicide attempt, and after all this he ended up blaming and seeking revenge on my husband and I for everything. It’s like his heart turned into stone…he became creepy, writing lies about us online to try to destroy our careers, swearing and disrespecting us, video taping us and sending off to friends. We finally got to such a desperate place emotionally that we needed respite and told him he could leave if he chose to continue his disrespect of our few simple rules. He was gone within 12 hours. That was December 17th. My feeling word right now is CONFUSED. There’s times that I feel good because there’s a quiet sense of peace in our home that was missed. But I also have a hole in my heart not knowing what he’s doing (imagining the worst) and the unknown for his personal future and our family future .