Occasionally we want to highlight one of the more thoughtful, interesting, and applicable comments that we receive. This week we are featuring a comment that will likely hit home for first-time moms, posted by Hailey on the recent devotional “What do you have to offer?“:

This devotional really hit home for me today. I am a first time mother, my baby boy is now 11 weeks old and how life has changed! I feel so unavailable for the Lord these days. Before I had my baby I had all the time in the world to serve and reach out to others and now it’s been hard for me to do much of any of that. I know being a mom is a ministry in itself but I can’t help but want to do more for others as well. It’s easy to think that you I don’t have much to offer now and have that lead to not doing anything. But I don’t want that to be the case; my availability may look different now but I am not going to stop having a willing and eager heart to do more for the Lord. As long as I am willing, He will guide me into opportunities to be used by Him. I need to keep my eyes and ears open for opportunities that probably look different than ones I have had before I was a mom. Now that I am a mom I probably have new things to offer and a new group of people I can reach!

Read the devo and the rest of the comments here. If you are a new mom, do you relate to the above? If you were a new mom, do you have any advice or encouragement for soon-to-be moms or new moms like Hailey?

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