MÈRE Stories: Mace Sally
Freedom in Motherhood
I began my journey my motherhood journey as a foster mom.
We had 6 beautiful children in our home. We felt like the biggest thing we learned as parents through that time is that we couldn’t do it alone and we needed to rely on Jesus daily for help.
We then tried to get pregnant for a year, and again we learned to let go of our control and plans and trust in Him daily.
We decided to name our first biological daughter Daily because of that.
We since then have had two more biological daughters, Eden and Wells!
It has truly been my greatest joy and gift to be a mom even when there are days that I feel like it’s the hardest thing I’ve done.
If you had to summarize your journey in motherhood with all its challenges, how would you describe it now? How have you found a way to reclaim your strength or identity? What have you learned?I think so often our culture pushes for moms to have this huge identity or life outside of motherhood. This has sometimes made me feel like I’m failing when I have seasons where I don’t have time or energy left for that.
For me, I’ve found it really freeing to just soak in my identity as a mother instead of outside of it. I can still do so many things that I love in the midst of being a mom and it doesn’t have to be two totally different versions of myself.
What advice or words of encouragement would you give another mom walking through a similar chapter? The way you make decisions and care for your own child may look different from your friends or other moms you see and that is totally ok!
You know your child best and I believe they were meant to be your child for a reason! We tend to spend more days at home and at a slower pace, while some of my friends like to have more activity packed days and I think that is so beautiful!
Trusting your intuition for what is right for your family instead of living in comparison is so freeing and will make room for so much more joy in your own journey.
How has your journey changed you, both in ways you expected and in ways you never could have imagined?I think motherhood has helped me settle in to who I am. I want my children to know who they are! So, as I teach them the truths of how loved they are and how they are more than enough exactly how they are, I’ve had to make sure that’s something I believe about myself.
It is not the checklist I’ve completed or getting my children to sleep through the night that makes me valuable, but we are enough even when we feel like we can’t measure up.
— Mace Sally
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