Traveling Light for Mothers
By Max Lucado
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This morning, somewhere between your first step on the floor to your last step out the door, you stuffed your bag full. No, not your purse, or a diaper bag, or your child's lunch box, but one created in your mind. And you didn't stuff it with books, band-aids, or baby food-you filled it with burdens. The kind of burdens moms carry.
The suitcase of guilt. A sack of discontent. You drape a duffel bag of weariness on one shoulder and a hanging bag of worry on the other. No wonder you're so tired at the end of the day. Toting those kind of bags is exhausting.
Why don't you try traveling light? Try it for the sake of those you love so dearly: your husband, your children, your parents. Have you ever considered the impact that excess baggage has on relationships?
God wants to use you, you know. But how can he if you're exhausted?
Using the comforting message of the twenty-third Psalm, Max Lucado reminds mothers to listen to God's tender voice urging us to release those burdens we were never meant to bear.
Max Lucado
Max Lucado (MA, Abilene Christian University) serves as the minister of preaching at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and is a best-selling author and speaker. His award-winning books have been translated into more than fifty-four languages and he has been named one of the most influential leaders in social media by The New York Times. Max lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Denalyn, and has three daughters and one granddaughter.
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TravelingLightMoms_0002_001TRAVELING LIGHT
FOR MOTHERS
Max Lucado
1TRAVELING LIGHT FOR MOMS
Copyright © 2002 Max Lucado. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published by W Publishing Group, a unit of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations used in this book are from the Holy Bible, New Century Version, copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by W Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee 37214. Used by permission.
Other Scripture references are from the following sources:
The Living Bible (TLB), copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois. Used by permission.
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For my three nieces
Dana, Michelle, and Allison.
May God bless your mothering.
CONTENTS
1. MOM’S PURSE
2. I’LL DO IT MY WAY
The Burden of Self-Reliance
3. THE PRISON OF WANT
The Burden of Discontent
4. I WILL GIVE YOU REST
The Burden of Weariness
5. WHADDIFS AND HOWELLS
The Burden of Worry
6. IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE
The Burden of Hopelessness
7. A HEAVENLY EXCHANGE
The Burden of Guilt
Notes
"Come to me, all of you
who are weary and
carry heavy burdens,
and I will give you rest."
MATTHEW 11:28 NLT
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MOM’S PURSE
I’ve never ceased to be amazed at what a mom can find in her purse. There’s the typical stuff, like a tissue for a stuffy nose, a quarter for the gumball machine, a library card to check out a book. But then there’s the incredible stuff, like a blowup beachball, a map of the entire United States, a collection of medicine that could cure any illness!
I guess moms learn early that they have to be prepared. It all starts with that diaper bag that has zippers galore and compartments begging to be filled so that no mother need be caught unprepared when spit-up (or a more unpleasant discharge) ruins the outfit and threatens to ruin the outing. From then on, moms seem to know how to pack backpacks for school, gym bags for games, footlockers for camp with anything and everything that might be needed.
Now, I’ve never carried a purse, but I’ve never been one to travel light.
I’ve tried. Believe me, I’ve tried. But ever since I stuck three fingers in the air and took the Boy Scout pledge to be prepared, I’ve been determined to be exactly that—prepared.
Prepared for a bar mitzvah, baby dedication, or costume party.