Birthday Parties: Celebrating God's Good Work | Ep. 78
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
From elaborate, Pinterest-worthy birthday bashes to simple celebrations with donuts and family, birthday parties can look wildly different in every family. But for moms today, planning a birthday party can feel a little like a competition against online strangers, our friends, and even ourselves. One thing all parties do is reveal a mom's heart. In this episode, Emily and Laura discuss birthday parties and ask, "What's our heart motivation?" Since our worth is secure with Christ, moms can stop chasing perfection, even in something like party planning. The gospel invites us to see each birthday as pause for a yearly celebration of God's work in our children's lives.
VIEW TRANSCRIPTWe want to recognize that birthdays can be hard for moms who have lost a child too soon, either inside or outside of the womb. Moms who have experienced miscarriage and infant loss can also glorify God as they mourn and celebrate what God did in and through that child's life, even if it was short. Even though we don't address this directly in the show, we're thinking about you, and hope you will be blessed and encouraged by some of these resources:
- Ep. 23: Hope After Miscarriage: Two Moms Share Their Stories and Loss
- Ep. 39: Infertility, Miscarriage and Motherhood with Courtney Reissig
- RM's Collection: Hope for Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Articles, Resources and Related Content:
- FAQ: Should I Curtain Grandparent Gift-Giving - Jen Wilkin
- Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World - Kristin Welch
- Mom Enough - Desiring God
- Recovering From Perfect Mom Syndrome - Melissa Kruger, The Gospel Coalition
- They Shall Know Us by Our Parties - Catherine Parks, Christianity Today
- The Amazing Calling of Being "Mom''- Trillia Newbell, Desiring God
More From Risen Motherhood:
- Ep. 42: Making Christmas Traditions Matter
- Ep. 64: Making a Home: Decorating for the Glory of God
- Ep. 70: Is Motherhood the Most Important Thing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Laura and I have my sister-in-law, Emily |
| 0:41.8 | here with me. Hey guys, today we are talking about something super fun. We're talking about birthdays, |
| 0:48.2 | but before that we wanted to ask you guys if you would take a moment to give us a rating and |
| 0:52.7 | review on iTunes. These rating and reviews, while they might seem small and meaningless, are |
| 0:57.8 | actually really, really important in the crazy iTunes algorithm that they have in order to serve |
| 1:04.2 | up podcasts to new listeners. And so we have heard time and time again from new moms who have found |
| 1:08.8 | us through random searches on iTunes all because of your reviews. So if you would take maybe five, |
| 1:15.6 | 10 minutes max, I mean, if it's on your iPhone, it might even take three minutes. Just take a few |
| 1:20.3 | minutes out of your day to rate and review us on iTunes. That would just make our day and be |
| 1:26.6 | really, really helpful to us to help continue to spread the word to more moms about the gospel |
| 1:31.7 | and motherhood. So did I cover that in? Yeah. And speaking of the gospel motherhood, we have a |
| 1:40.4 | topic today that may seem kind of fluffy, but the gospel applies to everything, right Laura? Exactly. |
| 1:47.2 | So we are going to chat a little bit about birthday parties and just really celebrating our |
| 1:52.4 | children's birthdays in general. I mean, it doesn't have to be a party. You'll find us to go |
| 1:57.0 | through this. But Laura, what do you guys kind of do for your kids' birthdays? Oh my goodness. |
| 2:01.7 | We have totally done the gamut. We've done everything from the big first birthday bash where we invite |
| 2:08.0 | too many people. We invite a lot of people to just really the simple like families together. |
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