Is Motherhood Your Measure of Success? | Ep. 70
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
When urgent needs and love for our littles abounds, it's easy to become all-consumed by the role of motherhood. Without even realizing it, we can start to define ourselves by how we're doing, letting our joy be found in the relative success of earthly ability instead of the secure anchor of the Savior. In this episode, Emily and Laura revisit the concept of identity and motherhood, encouraging moms to define themselves in Christ. As sinners, our success can't be found in any earthly role or relationship, but only through our eternal hope in the Savior himself.
Articles & Resources:
- The Westminster Shorter Catechism -online version
- The New City Cathecism - Kathy Keller
- Counterfeit Gods - Tim Keller
- Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family - Paul David Tripp
- Mom Enough - Multiple Collaborators (Desiring God)
- A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God's Love- Milton Vincent
- When Mommy Loves Jesus More- Emily Jensen (For The Church contributor)
- More From Risen Motherhood:
- Motherhood and the Gospel- RM Ep. 1
- Interview with Gloria Furman: Missional Motherhood - RM Ep. 32
- Interview with Jen Wilkin: Growing in God's Word as a Mom of Little Ones - RM Ep. 63
- Interview with Hannah Anderson: How Humility Nourishes a Weary Mom's Soul - RM Ep. 66
- Inductive Bible Study Tuturial and Printables - RM Equipping
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, hello, hello and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I have my |
| 0:42.0 | pregnant sister-in-law Emily Jensen here with me. I just love being described like that, |
| 0:47.3 | face. Beautifully pregnant. I don't know. Pretty impressive. I'm hot right now actually. I'm sitting |
| 0:53.9 | in a room with no AC, but I'm smiling. You poor thing. I'm sorry. Yeah, we are, by the time you |
| 1:00.8 | guys maybe hear the release of this episode, I'm hoping that at the very least my baby is in my arms |
| 1:06.4 | and Emily will be, well, only like five weeks out, hopefully from your due date. She's due in |
| 1:12.0 | early August. So, you heard us hint at this last week, but just to let you guys know, we are actually |
| 1:18.1 | going to be taking a two month, I have air quotes here, maternity leave. I don't know if you can count. |
| 1:24.1 | It hasn't maternity leave, but we are going to be taking a break from releasing new content. |
| 1:29.8 | But we're not disappearing completely. We will be sharing content on social media. So, go |
| 1:35.6 | find us over there at Risen Motherhood on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. And then of course, |
| 1:41.2 | we're also going to probably do a couple blog posts that we've written ahead of time. You guys are |
| 1:45.9 | not completely rid of us during these next two months, but we are going to be taking time to just |
| 1:50.1 | be with our families, be with the new babies. And we are coming back just rorn. We already have |
| 1:55.1 | plans for September. So, a lot coming to you guys come September, but until that point, |
| 2:00.9 | it's going to be a little quieter around here. Yes, a little quieter, although not at our houses, |
| 2:05.2 | because we'll have a massive little cries, which will be in, but they're so sweet sometimes. |
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