S05 Episode 18: The Heart of a Mother
Abiding Together
Abiding Together
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🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Abiding Together Podcast, Sr. Miriam, Michelle, and Heather talk about the gift and calling of motherhood. Whether it be biological or spiritual motherhood, every woman is called to offer her maternity. Motherhood stretches our hearts to love more deeply and give new life to others. We talk about adoption and spiritual motherhood, which allows others to be born in our hearts as we image the gift of adoption that God has given to us.
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One Thing We Love This Week
Sister Miriam's one thing - the beauty of Bowling Green, Kentucky
Michelle's one thing - weekend getaways with her spouse
Heather's one thing - two songs from the new Hillsong United album, "People": Clean
and Highlands (Song of Ascent)
Discussion Questions
- Where do you experience the joy of maternity and femininity?
- What would you like Jesus to heal in your maternity and femininity?
- How is God inviting you to expand your heart to love others?
- What does it mean to be a life giver?
Journal Questions
- Is there someone that God is placing on your heart to offer your gift of maternity to?
- How does God need to expand your view of motherhood?
- Reflect on your relationship with Our Blessed Mother. How can you grow in this?
Quote to Ponder
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other" - Mother Teresa
Scripture for Lectio Divina - John 19:26-27
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast in partnership with Ascension. |
| 0:11.4 | Abiding Together is a place where you can find connection, rest and encouragement on your |
| 0:16.2 | journey with Jesus Christ. |
| 0:17.9 | My name is Sister Miriam James and every week I am joined by two of my dearest friends |
| 0:22.2 | ever. |
| 0:23.2 | Heather Kim and Michelle Benzinger, what you're going to find is we're three normal women |
| 0:27.0 | who are on the journey who laugh, we cry, we have all kinds of adventures and our heart |
| 0:31.7 | is to share our love of Christ with you, our friendship and all the beautiful and broken |
| 0:35.9 | places that we encounter. |
| 0:37.8 | So you are most welcome to join us on this journey. |
| 0:40.5 | Grab a cup of coffee, get settled in and welcome home. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast in the Easter season and this is our episode |
| 0:51.0 | we are preparing for Mother's Day, right for our celebration for the maternal heart of |
| 0:55.6 | all women. |
| 0:56.6 | So all women you are especially in our hearts today as we pray about this and talk about |
| 1:00.7 | this and we are talking about it from three different time zones and with massive technical |
| 1:04.8 | difficulties. |
| 1:05.8 | So we know this is going to be a good show. |
| 1:06.8 | Could we just say that right now? |
| 1:07.8 | Michelle has just about lost her mind but thankfully she's still with us. |
| 1:12.0 | Poor thing like for 45 minutes she can't get her headphones to work, can't get her microtor |
| 1:16.0 | work and so we're just staring at her like because there's something we can do. |
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