Strength to Get Through the Day
As a busy mom, finding time for devotions is challenging. Your schedule is packed from the moment your feet hit the floor in the morning until the moment you drop into bed at night (even in the middle of the night oftentimes). Daily prayer and devotion time give you the foundation and strength you need to get through the day.
Get Creative
Getting creative about how and when to find time for prayer and study is imperative. In fact, your devotion time doesn’t have to look like mine – or your best friend’s – or anyone’s. You can make that time unique to your own life season and circumstances. My devotion and prayer time changed over the years and yours will too.
Invest in Your Journey
It is important to invest in your journey as a mom. Being a mom has its ups and downs and to be the best mom you can you must invest in you. As a busy mom of three kids, I understand the stress of raising a family and trying to do it all perfectly, but I have uncovered a secret: becoming a better mom starts not with what you are doing but with who God is inviting you to become.
How to Find You
The way to find you is time with God. He will help you through your journey
to discovery. So the other question is how to find time for God. Here are a few
tips for Devotional Time for busy moms.
Carve Out a Small Quiet-ish Time
Let me tell you a secret, quiet time with God doesn’t need to be in the morning. It doesn’t even need to be quiet! Here are some things I’ve done over the years.
Institute “quiet reading time” in the morning where the kids pick a book from the kids book shelf and sit read / look at pictures until the timer goes off. Meanwhile I’m doing the same at the kitchen table. It takes a few weeks of training but it’s worth it!
Do Bible lessons with the kids and take a little extra time afterward for Scripture writing and prayer.
If I woke up before the kids, I hid in the bathroom where I stashed a devotional book. Sometimes I read the YouVersion app while I sipped hot coffee (brewed each morning by the auto timer).
Teach them to stay quietly in their rooms until a certain time each morning, then camp out on the floor in the hall with my Bible to guard the doors 😆
Pray the Scriptures
Many times, especially when I had a new baby or a busy toddler, in-depth Bible study or morning quiet times of any significant length were not happening. I developed the habit of praying the Scripture and it has been a blessing ever since!
Simply read the Scripture, and pray through it. Incorporate the ideas and phrases in your prayers of thanksgiving, praise, and request.
Put your favorite Scriptures on notecards and pray through them while you sit in the car or wait for appointments.
Just open to the Psalms or Proverbs and pray through a verse at a time. It can be that easy!
Give Yourself Grace
It’s good to keep looking for ways to grow in faithfulness and saturate your heart and mind in God’s Word. But if it doesn’t look like your ideal right now, give yourself grace!
You have years ahead of you. There will be time for rising early and sipping tea with your Scripture. For now, enjoy the snuggles, get your rest, and anchor yourself to Christ throughout the day. It’s the journey and intention not perfection.