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The theologian John Wesley once observed that he learned more about Christianity from his mother than from all the Bible teachers in England.

And if you're a mom, your work has an eternal impact. It may not always be easy to remember that as you change

diapers and pick up after toddlers and do everything you do as a mom. I'm John Fuller along

with Danny Werther. Danny leads our parenting and

youth department here at Focus on the Family and today we're going to hear a

conversation Jim Daly and I had with Sarah Partial Perry who offered advice for persevering in motherhood.

How do we make the mundane? How does a mother make that mundane routine of mother

the sandwiches, you know, getting the kids out the door, oh then you turn around,

you got all this stuff you got to clean up or take care of, and how do you make that enticing?

How do you make that something you can get up for every day and feel like you're

contributing. I tell you what I had to do is I had to transfer the notion of

value. So value was very concrete. It went from very

predictable and specific and concrete to non-specific and non-predictable and so I had to look beyond the daily doing of things right we as

moms accomplished so much but we have very little to show for it right so it's it's the same laundry, and it's the same dishes,

and it's the same dressing and bathing and putting to sleep.

And so if you're looking strictly at a task-based system, you will be very, very quickly frustrated.

And so you have to look underneath those tasks to see the value in the stage that you're in

with the people that you're raising.

So you're going to feel very sort of unsubstantiated in the work that you do.

And there will be a phase where it will feel very repetitive.

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