“Motherhood is relentless,” Moore said. “It just keeps coming whether you’re ready for the next day or not.”
Beth Moore shared a Mother’s Day message for moms, reflecting on years of prayer journals and a truth she says still hasn’t changed.
“There’s simply no way to get it all right. There’s just no such thing as perfect parenting,” Moore said. “God bless you, mom, whether you have a house full of little kids or an empty nest, whether your kids are grown or you have a child in heaven, whether you’re close to your kids or you’re far apart—mothering is a lot.”
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Moore is the founder of Living Proof Ministries. “Something happened as I was in my filing closet at work,” Moore told viewers.
Moore said she noticed a prayer journal from 1982 sitting on a shelf in her work filing closet. Normally, she keeps her journals at home, so the moment caught her attention. At the time, her oldest daughter was 2 years old, her youngest was a newborn, and she had been married just under three years.
Reading from the journal, Moore shared prayers many mothers will recognize.
“Lord, forgive me for my failures today,” she read. “This has not been a very good day and my disposition has been very poor.”
Page after page carried the same themes. She asked God for patience, for a better attitude, and for the strength to keep going. Again and again, she wrote about being exhausted.
“I just tell him over and over, ‘I’m so tired. I’m so sleepy,’” Moore said.
In one entry, she admitted it had been days since she had spent time in Scripture.
“I’m so exhausted, Father,” she had written. “Please give me energy. Please give me rest.”
Looking back, Moore said what struck her most wasn’t how much had changed, but how much hadn’t.
Decades later, she finds herself praying many of the same things, now not only for her children, but for her grandchildren as well.
“Some things are just common to man, to woman, to mother,” she said.
“And I thought to myself,” said Moore, “Mothering is a lot. A lot of rewards and a lot of regrets.”
