My Child, God’s Arrow

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Children are arrows in the hands of a warrior, and we want those arrows to fly true. It’s easier for them to stick close, but the truth is that they are created to fly. Let’s learn how we can point our arrows in the right direction.

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0:30.0	Hey you guys, this is Heidi C. John. Welcome to the Busy Mom Podcast.
0:34.0	Mary Christmas, we are almost there.
0:37.0	Today is Friday, a moment of silence. You made it to Friday.
0:42.0	Today we're going to be talking a little bit about just something, well something that's really on my heart and that's just archery 101.
0:50.0	We're going to talk about your child who is God's Arrow.
0:53.0	The Bible says in Psalm 127 that your children have been given to you like arrows in the hands of a warrior.
1:00.0	That's you, your warrior mom. So stick around, I think you're going to be encouraged.
1:13.0	Alright, so we are halfway through, I can't even believe it.
1:16.0	We're pretty darn close to halfway through the month of December.
1:21.0	And I think I told you guys, I'm having a pretty mellow Christmas this year. I'm kind of doing a minimalist Christmas.
1:28.0	I put up just a few Christmas decorations last year was sort of horrifying for me because I went to get my Christmas decorations out from underneath our house.
1:36.0	And even though we thought we had secured the plastic bins that the decorations were in somehow the mice got into them and pretty much ruined about 25 years worth of Christmas decorations.
1:48.0	And it was really depressing. This year I've had such a busy December because of the opening of the homeschool resource center and the launching of becoming mom strong and mom strong international that I just have been tired.
2:03.0	And so we did sort of a minimalist thing we put our Christmas tree up and we put a few things up around the house and I kind of like it.
2:11.0	I might actually do this. I'm my kids were like mom that makes you a senior citizen. I'm like, no, it just makes me.
2:18.0	I don't want to have to clean it all up and I'm really happy to see the twinkling lights on the tree and the display on the mantle and and eat a couple of those butter cookies from Costco and call it good.
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