Well, we get a city stream of questions from mothers of young kids like this one from a

listener named Beth.

Dear Pastor John, my husband and I are new parents to a two-month-old son.

Caring for him has been joyful and exhausting.

I can barely concentrate on anything I used to, but I need the Lord more than ever to

sustain me.

What counsel do you give new mothers on continuing their walk with God?

Well, I'm not a mother, never have been, but I lived with one for 47 years.

I still live with one.

And I watched her be a young mother with five children, four of them born into the family,

one of them carried into the family at eight weeks.

And I do try to read my Bible with an eye to what is helpful for moms and dads and everybody

else.

So, here are a few pieces of counsel from experience and from the Word, and they may not be the most

important, but they're off my prayerful front burner.

Number one, never lose sight, Beth.

Never lose sight of the fact that your walk with God is as essential for the good of your

child as is your milk or the formula that you may be giving him.

Children do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God.

If you lose your communion with God, you will lose not only a source of strength for

the sake of parenting, but you will lose the very thing you want most to impart to this

child, and you want him to know God more than you want him to live, namely a relationship

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