When we tend to the creative gifts and talents that God has planted in our hearts and

really created for his glory, when we tend to that work, it makes us better mothers.

Welcome to Family Life Today

Welcome to Family Life Today

where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.

This is Family Life Today. This is family life today.

So we're talking about.

So we're talking about thriving today in motherhood and I know that you have said many

many times when we had Littles you felt like your life was sort of over.

I think I said to you like I've lost my life.

I don't even know who I am with three little boys that were five and under in the house.

There is a part of me that felt like, I guess I need to take my gifts and just

pack them away for a while 18 years 20 years because as a mom you're

overwhelmed and a lot of us are working or we're homeschooling or

we're just stay-at-home moms and maybe we've had some dreams I think that

word even dreaming or passions and it doesn't feel like there's time for those.

Well we've got a woman in here today who's going to say something different.

Actually, Gad is with us and she's smiling because I think you're thinking that's not true, right?

Right, I'm thinking that's not true and also I know what that feels like that resonates.

Ashley, you've written a book called Create Anyway,

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