Freedom To Be The Mother God Created You To Be: Why Comparison Doesn't Work | Ep. 18

Risen Motherhood

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As moms, we love practical help. Tips, checklists, and "how-to" articles seem to promise that we're finally going to get something right. But when we bypass dependence on God and decide to just model our lives after the mom down the street, we've missed the point. We weren't created to reflect each other, but to reflect Christ in ways that are unique to the skills, abilities and life circumstances he's given us. In this episode, Emily and Laura encourage moms to understand how the gospel frees us from adopting one style of "perfect" mothering. God wants our whole lives to be a living sacrifice, so we can be free to glorify him in all we do (even when that looks different from our friends).

Like what you hear? Visit www.risenmotherhood.com for links to additional articles and resources on this topic. You'll also find more encouragement and truth on how to be an intentional mother that cares for and loves her children with eternity in mind. And if you get a chance, we'd love for you to subscribe and/or leave a review in iTunes!

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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.
0:38.3	Well hello and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I've got my sister-in-law, Emily
0:43.7	Jensen here. Hi. And hopefully my voice sounds really beautiful on all of your guys' ears right now.
0:51.6	I got a fancy new microphone. Yeah. It's so hopefully the technology all works, but I always felt
0:59.0	like I'm that my voice sounded like I've sounded like I had a cold all the time on the show. And
1:03.6	sometimes I did, but I feel like hopefully I can sound like my normal self, my real voice, and
1:10.9	you guys can I'm not greeting on everyone's ears so much, I guess. Oh yeah. Well our morning
1:16.7	rocking is probably comes through, but yeah, we're excited. Laura looks so professional right now.
1:22.8	I wish you could see her their headphones at her microphone. Yeah, I feel really cool right now.
1:27.2	I feel like a true podcaster. So I'm we're gonna get Emily on board her for some reason, her
1:32.1	computer records a little bit better than mine. And so it's just so funny because we have the
1:36.3	exact same computer. But anyway, figured I should get mine so I don't sound like I have the constant
1:42.4	cold. Alright, jumping into the show today, we are talking about freedom and motherhood. And as
1:49.6	M and I were chatting through the show, it felt like a beast to nail down. And there's like a lot
1:56.3	of ways that we can take this. But one thing that we feel really strongly about here on
2:01.9	risen motherhood is just that we don't talk a ton about practical stuff. So like we're not going
2:06.9	to tell you, Hey, this is how to get your baby to sleep or how to how to eat correctly or how to
2:11.8	choose a the public school or homeschooling or you know, these are our top 10 tricks for. I don't
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