The importance of the mother-daughter relationship
I am 20 years old and my mother is one of my best friends, it is my safe place, my closest counselor and my greatest support, and so it has been since I have been right.
- One way or another.
- My relationship with my mother not only survived my teenage years; our relationship flourished during this phase.
- My adolescence formed the bond we have now.
But how did this happen?
All my life, my parents have intended to cultivate family discipleship. We did home service every night. My brother and I were homeschooled and my parents were diligent in training the worldview.
However, when I was 12, they became intentional about personal discipleship, and I think that’s what contributed significantly to establishing a relationship with my mother.
When I was a teenager, I didn’t need a mother to let me do what I wanted. try to be my best friend, be calm, carefree, forgiving and opposed to discipline. Instead, I needed a figure of authority to discipline me if necessary, but also to teach me, counsel me, pray for me, listen to me, invest me, learn my interests, dedicate time and space to my problems, and love me; I needed someone to discipline me and that person is my mother.
Mothers who have never done this kind of discipleship may wonder what their real benefits are, especially as this task seems daunting. Is it worth the hard work of discipleship? Given my own life, here are only five benefits of discipleship:
When I was 12, I started meeting my mother once a week to talk about what was going on in my life, and that continued during my teenage weeks. We talked about my prayer needs, my struggles, how my personal spiritual disciplines were going, what I liked about children, how I felt about school, my dreams, what I was learning from the Word of God. , which made me happy, that saddened me and absolutely everything I wanted to say.
But discipleship didn’t limit himself to this weekly commitment, it happened in the car on the way to drama class, at the mall buying clothes, in your room watching movies, at the table doing homework, every day. in a powerful way as we grew in the knowledge of others on a deep level, both through our spiritual moments and through our moments of relaxation.
My mother not only taught by example, she took the time to patiently teach me what a devoted woman is, especially reading books together. Over the years, we have read books such as Papo de Garota, Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Whitacre; Lies believed by the girls, by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Dannah Gresh; Susan Hunt’s real wife, Mary Kassian’s Girls Gone Wise and Martha Peace’s Women in Trouble.
These books have led to countless conversations about what it means to be a devoted woman at every moment of life, through tween struggles and problems until my teenage years.
My mother’s discipleship encouraged me to think critically, almost every week I wondered if there was anything I disagreed with in the book we were reading, we also talked about the conflicts I had with friends, talked about global events and how to do it. I understand pain and violence. We’re talking about film, music and culture. In the midst of all this, she showed me how to participate in the world around me, think for myself, and make wise choices.
Every time my mother confronted me with sin, I quickly emphasized that her confrontation was rooted in love rather than frustration; I brought out my sin because I displeased God and damaged relationships, and my mother loved me too much to ignore it.
Some of my most striking memories of our meetings are when my mother confessed her sin to me and asked me for forgiveness. He loves reconciliation. None of us is perfect; we have failed miserably in adolescence (just as we will fail in our twenties), but we continue to seek holiness.
When people ask me, “How do you have strong faith at such a young age?”My answer is always: “God’s work through the discipleship of my parents. “My mother did everything she could to give me the tools she needed to thrive as a Christian. He equipped me to face life with confidence, completely certain of my identity in Christ, discipleship has given me a mentor, a friend, a teacher and a mother who walks with me throughout my life and gives me a greater passion for glorifying God.
Mother, the best thing you can give your daughter is to be a disciple, give her all your heart, a shrewd mind, a kind mouth and open ears, she needs you to invest in her, for herself and for the purpose of the kingdom.
Mom, the best thing you can give your daughter is yourself
My name is Jaquelle, I am 18 years old and I love sushi, bitter chocolate and football movies, but the best and most important thing about me is that the purpose of my life is to follow Jesus, he changed my life. And that’s the subject of this book.
At all times we are under pressure from world standards and we do not even realize the weight of the influence it has on us, but there is something more important than all this that has the power to radically transform our lives: the gospel of Jesus Christ. !