Loving the Difficult Mom in Your Life | Ep. 69
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It's natural to prefer spending time with moms who share similar parenting values, lifestyle choices, and special interests with us. Conversely, most of us can instantly think of a mom we avoid, because she makes us uncomfortable with her more-extreme views in a gray-area of motherhood. These feelings beg the question, "How should we love and interact with those who do motherhood differently than us, especially when those differences breed difficulties?" In this episode, Emily and Laura bring the gospel to bear on these challenging relationships, remembering that the cross levels all of us. Because of the extravagant grace shown to us, we can now love others who are different, even when it's hard.
Articles & Resources:
- Loving Difficult People || Stacy Reaoch (Desiring God)
- Organic Food, Essential Oils, and the Gospel of Grace || Stacy Reaoch (Desiring God)
- The Love that is Neither Easy or Natural || Erik Raymond (TGC)
- Mom vs. Mom: The War I Didn't See Coming || Jeanne Harrison (Revive our Hearts)
- Loving Someone in Their Mess || Colleen Chao (Revive our Hearts)
- 10 Common Mistakes in Difficult Relationships || Lina Abujamra (Revive our Hearts)
More From Risen Motherhood:
- Free to be the Mother God Created You to Be: Why Comparison Doesn't Work || RM Ep. 18
- Friendship and Motherhood || RM Ep. 38
- Breastfeeding & Bottle Feeding: How the Gospel Changes the Conversation || RM Ep. 13
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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. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Emily Jensen here with my sister |
| 0:43.4 | in law, Laura Whiffler. Hello, hello. And just by way of a few housekeeping items before we get |
| 0:50.0 | started, first of all, Laura and I, well, Laura is about to have a baby if she doesn't already have one in her |
| 0:56.8 | arms when this is released. I know. I kind of hope that I do have one of my arms when this comes out. |
| 1:02.0 | So, we're going to just be sharing with you guys a little bit about a small break we're going to be |
| 1:06.4 | taking. We will talk more about it next week. So, no worries. Just come back next week, but wanted to go |
| 1:12.3 | ahead and plant that bug in your ear. And then also, if you are wanting to share with others about |
| 1:18.3 | this podcast and you're like, I have some mom friends or people I know who would benefit from hearing |
| 1:23.3 | a gospel application to motherhood, we would encourage you to take a few minutes to leave an iTunes |
| 1:27.5 | review. They have all these algorithms and that is one way that can kind of help us spread the word |
| 1:34.4 | about Risen Motherhood. So, if you don't know how to do that, you can hop over to our website, |
| 1:38.4 | www.RisenMotherhood.com. And we have some quick tutorials there, but hopefully it should not be too |
| 1:44.5 | hard. So, today, we are going to tackle a topic we've had a lot of questions about from different |
| 1:52.5 | angles. We're trying to sum them all up of like, hey, how do we love moms that are different than us |
| 1:59.1 | and moms that can be kind of hard to love and hard to be around because of maybe their opinions |
| 2:04.6 | or their parenting style? Yeah, exactly. I'm sure every mom who's listening is like, oh, I know the |
| 2:10.0 | mom. I was like thinking of some mom that's difficult to love, but you know, it's really normal |
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