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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Hope and Encouragement for Moms

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary



Kirsten Watson offers encouragement for moms in the trenches. As a mom of seven and wife of NFL veteran Benjamin Watson, Kirsten reminds you to embrace your identity in Christ and trust God through the everyday-ness of motherhood.


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0:00.0

I think when we get our identity even from our kids like that that is scary

0:05.1

because I mean I can in one day give myself a gold star for how I've been

0:09.4

momming and then the other day feel like I have totally ruined their entire life.

0:14.3

That's Kirsten Watson and she joins us today on Focus on Family, your host is

0:19.6

Focus President and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. John I want to say it's

0:23.9

so clear. Mothers are incredible people indeed. I had a great mom single-parent

0:29.3

mom and she did such a wonderful job raising us. I only had her for nine years

0:33.6

but she gave me my sense of humor. She did so much to pour into me even in

0:40.2

nine short years and it gives me a deep appreciation for moms. They're just

0:46.0

incredible and while motherhood is rewarding it can certainly have its

0:50.5

challenges. Sometimes you just need to step back, close your eyes, say a little

0:55.9

prayer and take deep breath and here folks on the family we are here for you

1:00.7

particularly a majority of our listeners are you moms and we love you. We're

1:06.1

here for you know it call us if you need help. We're like a 9-1-1 for the

1:11.1

family so don't hold back you're never gonna surprise us and I'm looking forward

1:16.4

to today's conversation because we're gonna talk with Kirsten Watson, wife of

1:20.7

NFL veteran and a good friend of focus both of you Benjamin Watson and they

1:25.9

are exceptionally wonderful people with an exceptionally large family of seven

1:31.2

children and in addition to being CEO of a large family Kirsten writes she's

1:37.8

the executive editor of Mom Life Today. She co-hosts a podcast with Benjamin I've

1:43.5

heard that it's good and our conversation today is gonna send her around a

1:47.7

book she's written called Sis Take a Breath in courage for the woman who's trying

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