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The Jekyll and Hyde of Motherhood (176C)
By: Nancy Ortberg

What we learn through motherhood. Big idea: God can use the tensions of motherhood to transform you. ***See outline of this message below.

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The Jekyll and Hyde of Motherhood (176C)

Speaker: Nancy Ortberg

Date: 1/1/1900

References: Romans 7:15-20

Introduction:

Motherhood opened a new world of conflicting emotions.

Motherhood is a struggle between two opposing forces.

Two different people emerged when I became a mother.
- Illustration: Ortberg quotes Robert Louis Stevenson to compare the sweet, gentle side and the frazzled, impatient side of motherhood to the Jekyll and Hyde story.
Motherhood magnifies the polarity between self and selflessness.
- Illustration: Ortberg quotes social anthropologist Sheila Kissinger, who explains the sudden conflict between the dreams and realities of motherhood, condensing the issue to the painful process of the annihilation of self.
The emergence of Mr. Hyde often leads to despair.
- Illustration: Walking through a day in the life of a frazzled mom, Ortberg shares her sometimes humorous, sometimes painful story of managing a family while battling feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness.

God uses the tensions of motherhood to shatter our illusions.

Illustration: Ortberg retells a conversation with a friend whose candid feedback opened her eyes to the magnitude of her problem.
Illustration: Ortberg's son forces her to come to grips with her own anger in an emotion-filled tale of a little boy who just wanted to say, "I love you, Mom."

God uses motherhood to show us we need him. God uses motherhood to reveal his character. We can relearn God's character.

I had learned how to relate to God one way.
He used the circumstances of motherhood to teach me in ways I never expected.

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