Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the Word, prayers, and our hearts.

I'm Lisa Whittleittle and i welcome you to

just five minutes with me which i trust and pray will be five minutes well spent so this is day four

in our mom series and i hope you're getting some richness from what we're talking about this week

mom or not tomorrow we'll dive into our friday five and get those last minute gift givers in your life

ready to listen, moms, because we're going to feature five last minute gifts for the mom

on our show. But today we're talking secrets. Yeah, you heard right. Secrets. We all have them

and moms are no different. Think for just a minute about this. What secret or secrets are you

holding in your heart and how does this play into your function as a mom or does it? And while we're at

it, what does God think about secrets? It's kind of an interesting topic, I think. Let's explore it today.

So I wanted to do this show, which might seem kind of unusual at first during a mom week emphasis, because here's what I know.

We all have secrets, even those of us who are pretty open, and we all feel a little

conflicted about the secrets we keep, I think.

Here are some of the classic mom secrets we have. Sometimes I struggle to like my kids. That's a hard

one, I think. We love these kids. We would die for these kids, but sometimes we struggle to like

them, especially in the hard moments or with a particularly

strong-willed or difficult child. Here's another one. Sometimes I wish my life were different.

We love being a mom. We wouldn't trade it for the world, but sometimes we also wish we could do

this other thing or this thing over here. Or maybe it's this. I don't think I'm a good mom.

I'm messing up with my kids. I'm a

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