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Flipping the Switch to Hope: from worst-case to unimaginable good :: Heather MacFadyen [Ep 510]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I don’t often do a solo podcast but God has been working on my heart when it comes to parenting teens and expectations and I felt prompted to sit down and share what I am learning with you all.  

So often as parents, we live in a worst-case scenario mindset, when it feels like the dreams and expectations for a child's future are not aligning with the present. We obsess over baby monitors, teen friendships, and grades/sports but this comes from a place of worry, or even fear-based control. 

God wants freedom and hope in our parenting! I realized I have a choice: to believe in an imagined bad scenario or to flip a switch and choose hope and expect in God for unimaginable good things to come. Both choices involve belief, imagination and control. I'm choosing to double down turn my belief toward hope, knowing that even when things don't go as planned, God's story is far greater.

In this episode, I will share the steps God gave me to practically practice choosing hope over worry. How to walk with the Spirit and produce fruit instead of formula-based parenting rooted in power and control. Reminding my own heart that God is good and has a good story for our kids- let’s lean into the HUGE expectation that God is the God of HOPE and let our prayers align with that truth. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.3

I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:14.1

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:19.4

And in today's episode, it's episode 510. And I just had something I

0:24.9

wanted to share with y'all. So it's a solo episode. And I'm hoping, hope is going to be the

0:30.8

word of the day, y'all, that this is a perspective shift that God revealed to me on Sunday.

0:40.2

And I'm hoping that it is sticky enough for you and that it helps guide you as you walk through different stages of your mom journey.

0:52.3

So let's get right to it.

0:53.5

Let's flip the switch. Here we go. So I'm sitting down to

0:57.6

record this episode and something just happened. And I think that it's my opening story. So I got a

1:04.9

text that a very fancy florist in our area was sending flowers my way. And at the taping of this,

1:13.6

it's before Valentine's Day. And so I know my husband loves to order from this company.

1:19.2

And it's like, oh my goodness, my expectation, my idea was it would be these beautiful flowers

1:26.3

dropped off at my door. knock at the door get the

1:30.8

flowers go to put them on the table and see that on the card it is not my name it is another person's

1:39.0

name it is a different street in our neighborhood And immediately I went from joy to annoyance to realizing I've got a remedy to this situation.

1:51.1

I called the florist.

1:52.8

I let them know.

1:53.7

I called back because I realized they never asked for my address on where they're going to

1:58.3

pick them up from.

2:00.0

And so I called them back. I give them my address.

2:03.0

And then I'm sitting down to do this episode and I realize it's been an hour. Are those flowers

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