A few episodes ago we talked about the importance of gratitude in your family, but how can you practice

gratitude if it feels like your world is just falling apart? We're going to hear a really incredible story of a parent who

did just that. They persevered even though everything seemed against them. I'm

John Fuller with Dr. Danny Huerta who heads up focus on the family's parenting

department and Ashley Willis is the mom of four boys and today she shares with

Jim Daly about how she's learned to focus on what's good in parenting.

You urge moms to follow the advice in Philippians 4-8.

And again, what's good about this discussion,

I think, is applying it, applying to a to a mom's role. So how does

4-8 do that? Yes I love that verse because it talks about what we should focus on.

You know we talked earlier about what we allow to kind of set up shop in our mind so to speak.

The lies we're believing, the truths we're believing. And so in Philippians 4-8, just to remind all those

listeners, it says to focus on what's true, noble, right, pure and lovely and you know I

equate this in the book to this being gold it's gold that is from God that can fill our heart and

mind and also pass it on to others.

And I think the more that we allow, you know, allow God to remind us of these things and

fill our mind with these things that are worthy of praise with with the good moments of

motherhood then we are more likely to really have that outpouring into our kids and

into our spouse because we're not just full of fear and we're not just full of

condemnation you know that we bring on

ourselves and so we do need to look for those golden nuggets you know and I

that's kind of what I call it and I know again it's another pirate reference

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