185. Living with Tension in Mothering: Sacrifice or Rest
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Let’s have a practical chat, rooted in spiritual truth as we answer a recent listener question.
Francie, my physical well being often suffers at the expense of serving my children. How do I take time for myself at the expense of my children when the Bible is so clear about placing the needs of others above my own?
Many of us have fallen prey to the trap of dualism - the idea that some things are sacred and some things aren’t. We tend to categorize certain activities as spiritual, even more important, and diminish the needs of the body.
Let’s unpack what integrated living looks like. Friend, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Your body and the Spirit go hand in hand, so what does it look like to glorify God with your body? It involves caring for your body, nourishing your body and even seeking rest when needed. Running yourself into the ground is not wise nor is it honoring.
When you choose to rest, which may look like going at a slower pace or choosing more simplicity in your day, you are modeling wisdom for your children (and your community).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. It's Francie. Thanks for coming back to another episode, a little chat on the Heaven in Your Home podcast. Today we're talking about the topic of rest and sacrifice for your family and the tension of those two things. This conversation is coming to you via an |
| 0:21.9 | email from a listener, a question that was very sincerely asked. And I thought it was worth |
| 0:26.7 | taking the time to unpack this, maybe to get a little bit at the root system of some of the |
| 0:31.4 | beliefs we hold as women about sacrificing for our families. The good of that and the not so good |
| 0:37.4 | about that, the places where I've |
| 0:39.0 | struggled and stumbled and actually caused my family more pain because of my beliefs around this |
| 0:45.4 | idea that weren't necessarily biblical, even though they kind of sneaky looked biblical, if that makes |
| 0:50.3 | sense. It's like, sounds really religious to sacrifice everything for your family. |
| 0:58.9 | However, I think even as I'm saying this, you probably get like why that would not be wise. But this listener is really sincere in the way she asked. And I wanted to tease it out a little bit because I think there's some underlying worldview things that happen to us along the way that color our view of this. |
| 1:09.6 | And then there's some places of my story that I just want to open up about my own weakness |
| 1:13.6 | and journey towards healthy stewardship as a woman, as a mom, as a wife, as an image bearer, |
| 1:22.5 | as a sexual person, as a person who needs to care for her body. I would just say as an |
| 1:28.7 | embodied person. We're not just spiritual beings. We have a body and that means stuff in |
| 1:35.0 | relation to how we relate to other people. So I think this is a really important setup even for |
| 1:39.7 | conversations we're going to have on the podcast in the future about pleasure and about sexuality because of how |
| 1:46.3 | uniquely wired women are and the order of events for women to really thrive in sensuality |
| 1:52.4 | and thrive in sexuality so that there can be an abundance and not a scarcity when it comes to |
| 1:59.8 | our marriages and our intimacy. If your husband listening, |
| 2:02.4 | listen in, I'm going to share some of the things that Wyatt has done that have been pivotal |
| 2:06.0 | for my health and my journey and my healing. But before we get any further, let's pray, God, thank you |
| 2:11.6 | for our good bodies. Thank you for how you designed us. Thank you that we have your word |
| 2:16.7 | that encourages us and instructs us. Thank you that we have your word that encourages us and |
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