Week Four Summer of Mentorship 2020 :: Sally Clarkson
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🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sippy cup refill requests. Another load of laundry to fold. A sibling dispute.
Ever feel like you are reacting to life? Life is coming at you and you respond.
There have been many times in my mothering where instead of joy & hope I feel beat down and unfulfilled.
One woman who has whispered beauty and calm into those dark places, is today’s podcast guest, Sally Clarkson.
She told me motherhood can be more than just doing the dishes. It is an important job, guiding souls through discipleship and love. She taught me that my hard-to-handle boy may need me to sympathize more than instruct. She agreed boys may be a little wild. . .but showed me they can be civil & sip tea.
When I was coming out of a time of “not feeling like myself” Sally showed me how to own my life. To drop the negative thoughts which held me back. To consider what I wanted my days to look like and then make them happen.
He is the living, vibrant not-to-be-contained God. The more I would ponder God and engage with him in my own heart, the more my kids were drawing from me all the excellencies and realities of God. When we are passionate and filled with the Holy Spirit, our children will be exposed to the living God.
Sally has written her encouragement into a book called, “Own Your Life” (2015).
In this podcast episode, which originally aired January 6, 2015, I asked Sally all-the-things I’ve been pondering, from how to help your children really “know” God to simple advice on transforming a hard mom day.
What we talk about:
- Why I struggle to read Sally’s books at the end of hard days.
- Every mom has her own mom personality.
- In spite of our mom errors, children can learn our hearts
- How do we help our children “Yadah” God…to know Him personally
- Living a life of color & taste & joy so our children see & know the goodness of the Lord.
- How we are motivated…not by guilt or checklists but by love & encouragement.
- Balancing grace & truth in parenting–practicing patience & love takes time.
- Definition of the phrase “own your life”-
- Sally’s example of a friend who “owns her life” in a special way why she serves her son with a disability.
- In an immediate gratification society, not forgetting the long term process of your life. growing day by day, little by little.
- Making sure you make time for yourself, to fill up before you pour out to the little people in your life.
- Common barriers to owning your life.
- Sally’s advice to a mom who was depressed
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Aloon Podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | I am your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside |
| 0:15.8 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:22.0 | And this episode is week four of our summer of mentorship. |
| 0:26.4 | This week's in the summer we republish previous episodes from fantastic mentors and this |
| 0:31.8 | week's mentor is the one the only Sally Clarkson. |
| 0:37.4 | So when I see these wonderful mom is loving one more day, correcting one more day, reading |
| 0:42.7 | one more great story, believing in their children with very little support, very little encouragement |
| 0:48.4 | and even very little affirmation with them church sometimes. |
| 0:53.7 | This is where the miracles are happening in the lives of these precious children who will |
| 0:58.6 | serve that and they will accomplish great things because they're serving God's kingdom, |
| 1:04.5 | not necessarily because they'll ever acquire any kind of name or name you know, but they're |
| 1:10.2 | going to capture vision for being a servant leader like Jesus' wills because their |
| 1:14.4 | mom's chose to serve them with a good heart. |
| 1:18.8 | This episode originally aired in 2015, it was titled How to Own Your Life, it was episode |
| 1:24.2 | 54 and Sally's actually been on the show multiple times because she is the ultimate mentor. |
| 1:30.2 | When I was a new mom it was her books that kind of ignited my spirit that we get to disciple |
| 1:38.4 | and be the ones who point our kids to beautiful things and she also has just encouraged me |
| 1:45.5 | when I have been weary and so I hope that this episode reminds you of ways that you get |
| 1:51.6 | to dictate how your life looks and that may mean in this season doing some self-care which |
| 1:57.1 | I know is a buzz word but I just even for myself don't give myself permission to do that and |
| 2:01.8 | I hope that Sally in my conversation reminds you of that. |
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