Hi, I'm Jess Connolly, and you are listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast.

We exist to equip and encourage kingdom women who are using their God-given gifts for the good of others and the glory of God.

If you are a mom, a student, an artist, a doctor, we are hoping that this episode will leave

you encouraged and ready to run. We're so glad you're here. Let's go.

Hey friends, Jess here. Listen, we have a very special Mother's Day episode for you today. We have my dear mother, Deb Hopper. And I want to tell you, before we even get into the episode, if you are a mom in a traditional sense, if you are a foster mom, if you're an adoptive mom,

if you are someone who mentors women, if you have a mom, this episode is for all of you.

And we pray that you find encouragement and that it equips you and meets you right where you're at.

I do want to tell you just a little insider info at the top of this episode. It was actually supposed to come out last Thursday, and it was posted on all of our

podcast feeds. And early that morning, I happened to listen to the episode. I don't typically

listen to it, but I listened to it first thing in the morning and just wanted to hear, and I realized

that I had made a mistake in my language. And in the first part of this episode, you're going to hear

mom and I talk about spiritual motherhood and what that means and the implications of it and maybe why

we've gotten so comfortable with that phrase, but really what we're saying. And honestly,

she has some really beautiful and insightful thoughts about it. But the first time we recorded this,

I kept using the phrase biological when referencing the non-spiritual mothers. And that is not at all what I meant. What I meant is women who have

children in their home that they're mothering, but we all know, and I know, that is not always

biological. Oftentimes that means children you've adopted or children that you've inherited

from other family members or children that you're fostering.

And so we pulled the episode really quickly because I really wanted mothers of all kinds to feel included and honored and blessed and seen. But I wanted to just issue a quick apology in case

you happen to listen to that episode and then saw it disappear. That's why. I kept using the word biological,

and it's not what I meant to say. What I meant to say was relational or familial, meaning you have

people in your home that you're parenting. We see all moms, we bless all moms, but we're going to

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