Trusting God - Psalm 25:1-10 A mother's reflection

A couple weekends ago I wasn't able to go to church because we were out of town. I listened to the message online and WOW what an awesome message. As I listened to my pastor speak I felt like the spirit was speaking through him to me. With me staying at home and other issues our family has been going through some tough months. It doesn't seem like its going to end any time soon so this message was perfect for us.
Pastor James went over Psalm 25:1-10

To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame,but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD. Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

To give you a little background this Psalm is believed to be written by David during the time his son, Absalom, was setting us a coup against him. David was hiding in the mountains when he writes this lament to God. He finds out that during the revolt his son is killed. I read this part in the Bible (2 Samuel around the 18th chapter) and this verse really stuck out to me " And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And so he went, he said, 'O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!" Being a mother I can relate to how David must've felt. Yes his son was trying to kill him but it was still his child. No matter what Alexa did I would be devastated if she died before me. You can also see the humility in David during his life in his later years. He had learned a lot through his mistakes and instead of pride he felt remorse for how his family was. He knew a lot of it was directly related to how he raised his children.

In the same way David had humility we need to have that kind of humble attitude to let Jesus actually drive the car for our life. We need to let him be in charge of where we're going and stop trying to take the wheel from him. We have to make a choice if we want to trust God or trust man. As a stay at home mom I struggle with this a lot especially in regards to finances. Our income was cut in half when I stopped working and it's hard living on a strict budget. But I know this is the choice my husband and I made to be home with Alexa. This is what worked best for our family. I want to be the one teaching her (and God willing our future children) how to live a life for Jesus. Jesus entrusted Alexa to me and my husband and I want to honor him.

In Psalm 25:10 David writes "Indeed none who wait for you shall be put to shame." This is a great promise. Even when things look tough God promises me that I will not be put to shame when I follow Him. I can trust that God knows what he's doing. So I'm going to meditate on His words and memorize His promises. Then I can keep them in my heart and I know they'll come to mind when my daughter's screaming her head off and I have no idea what to do. Or when I'm wondering if staying at home is even worth it. So to all the young mothers out there whether you're working or not I hope you'll take the time to thank God that you can trust Him and that He keeps His promises. If you don't know Jesus I hope you'll take some time to get to know Him and how He can change your life. Trust me He's worth it.

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Sleeping Through the Night

One of the major hurtles new parents have to face is training their child to sleep through the night. We have a lot of friends that have children so we heard all the horror stories. When we finally got pregnant that was one of the main issues that we wanted to figure out how to deal with early. We didn't want to wait till Alexa was 1 before she had a good night sleep. :) As we did our research we learned how sleeping was a time for the child's brain to grow and how important sleep was to them. We also learned how important sleep was to parents if they wanted to take care of their child as best they could. So we decided to try to train her early.
I know it may sound weird that we wanted to train a little baby who was just born to sleep but trust me we were flexible. It wasn't really about training but more about learning my daughter's cues and following them. Children love being on a schedule. I'll explain why I think so in a later post. From my experience as a teacher I know that children like to know what's going to happen next. So I wanted to give my daughter that too.
We started a formal schedule only after 6 weeks but we started informally scheduling her when she was born. We are blessed - Alexa kind of scheduled herself. We just helped her along. In the beginning every time we fed her we would play with her until we thought she seemed to be getting tired and then let her sleep. As most parents know newborns only stay awake at the most 45 minutes so it didn't take long for her to go to sleep. I slowly started figuring out her cries and made her schedule according to that. Then I started to notice her cues: rubbing her eyes, little cries, being fussy. Most of the time I would wrap her up in a swaddle me and she would fall asleep in about 5 minutes. There are the occasional times where she'll cry herself to sleep because she's been so stimulated but they are very few. To make it a little easier this is what her sleep schedule looked like.


Feed (from 10-45 minutes)

Waketime (starting from feeding time -
Newborn - 45 minutes
after 6 weeks - about 90 minutes
4 months - about 2 hours

Sleep
Newborn - about 60-90 minutes
after 6 weeks - about 90 minutes
4 months - about 2 hours

Remember these are all things I did because I thought they were best for my child. Everyone has a different approach because each child is different. This is just meant as a guide to help if you need it. I hope this did help anyone out there struggling with this. Please feel free to comment on how you helped your child to sleep at night.