Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito

Author:Jennifer Pepito
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family/Relationships;Fear;Joy;Parenting;Oral reading;Reading (Early childhood);Children—Books and reading;REL012160;REL012030;LIT007000
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2022-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

Our Imagination Can Be Used against Us

Perhaps you can relate to my vivid imagination when it comes to fear? I read Scarlet Hiltibidal’s Afraid of All the Things and realized that I was not alone in conjuring up fearsome situations seemingly out of thin air. It seems to be something we mothers are especially proficient at, and I imagine that you have the same anxiety-producing skill. Hiltibidal writes, “Those early days of motherhood were some of the most terrifying of my life. I wasn’t afraid of being a bad mom. I was afraid of absurd things. I was afraid of other people holding her and not being gentle enough. I was afraid of getting carjacked and watching a black-market baby seller drive off with her every time I left the house.”1

Many of us have the same ability to imagine absurd worst-case scenarios. We buy our kids a trampoline and then cringe in terror, imagining that they will fall off and concuss themselves on a rock. We take a nature walk and a scene starts playing in our head of our child being bitten by a snake as she runs through the brush. Somebody coughs in our presence and we instantly start planning for how we will survive a bout of pneumonia. We’ve cultivated the ability to imagine, even to feel, the terror of worst-case scenarios, which only reveals how far we are from our Father. While we confess Christianity with our mouths, we are more influenced by the bad news of the world than by the Word of God.

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