Heartfelt encouragement for every mom with Courtney DeFeo
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas friends!!!!
I wanted to end the year with some heartfelt encouragement to each of you. Try to get away from all the noise and distractions when you listen to this one. Sit with your eyes closed or go on a walk - and pray God would encourage your anxious and weary heart.
It’s so easy to get to the end of a year and only think about the few things you didn’t do right or mistakes that were made. I want to remind you of the MANY things you are doing well for your children. God sees them.
I share a few letters from YOU - words you wrote to your younger self. And then I read my own letter and it was so powerful for me to do that. Try to get some time to write your own letter to the younger version of you. What did you need to hear as a young mom? And then let’s receive that same tenderness and grace and love for the mom that we are right now.
I am so thankful for our community. Let’s keep showing up for these kids and loving God in the new year ahead. You are so very loved and you are such a great mom.
Merry Christmas,
Courtney
Chapters
00:00
Reflecting on Motherhood: A Year-End Pause
06:04
Wisdom from Friends: Insights on Parenting
11:46
Embracing Imperfection in Parenting
18:10
Looking Forward: A Message of Hope
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Well, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and it is the day after Christmas. |
| 0:18.8 | I don't know if you're listening to it on this day or you'll |
| 0:21.2 | listen to it next week, but I am so excited about this final episode of the year. I've been praying about it |
| 0:26.0 | and thinking about it and just thinking about you guys going like, what do I need as a mom? What's like |
| 0:31.0 | the last podcast of the year that's like, I don't need another thing I need to work on or another |
| 0:36.3 | reminder of the things that I need to do |
| 0:38.3 | better in 2025 because we did a lot. And I think we need to pause and just kind of reflect on |
| 0:44.5 | the things that did go well, the things where you did show up for your kids. And there were wins in |
| 0:50.1 | there. I think we can become so hyper-focused. And if you're hard on yourself like I am, |
| 0:54.9 | you're really looking at like a small percentage of things that didn't go well when a vast |
| 0:59.2 | majority of things went well. And so how we want to go about doing that today is I reached out |
| 1:05.0 | to some of you and some of you responded and said, what would you say to your younger self? |
| 1:09.6 | Like there's such tenderness when you think about like thinking of Megan to say Megan, what would you say to your younger self? Like, there's such tenderness when you think about, |
| 1:11.6 | like, thinking of Megan, to say, Megan, what would you have wanted to hear when your kids were babies? |
| 1:16.7 | Like, what do you know now that you didn't know then? And some of this is just life. Like, |
| 1:20.5 | if you had a million people give you pregnancy advice and you heard it, but you didn't really know what they were saying until you were pregnant. Same kind of thing. Like, when you have an 18-year-old, you're like, man, I wish I would have to realize that |
| 1:31.4 | when I was had a first grader. But that's what I want to attempt to do today. It's just like, |
| 1:36.1 | pull back at the curtain of like life and say, hey, by the way, you're doing a great job. Hey, by the way, don't get too stressed out. |
| 1:46.8 | Hey, by the way, you're so loved. And so let's do that through the letters of just a few of you. |
| 1:51.4 | And then I'm going to end with mine. And I need you to know that I've already done this once |
| 1:55.6 | and recorded the entire thing with my microphone on mute. Nothing is more court than recording a full podcast with |
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