When Joy is a Struggle :: Keli Reese [Ep 297]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Keli Reese is a naturally joyful person and a teacher who loves children. She figured that motherhood would come naturally for her too. But, after having five children in five years she found herself in the midst of life and home with lots of littles and wondered where her joy had gone.
“I had this mindset of what our home was going to be like because I'm doing this for Jesus. We're going to have this wonderful home. And when things were not looking that way, when I wasn't loving getting up early; I wasn't loving the laundry that never ended; I wasn't loving potty training; (all the things that was actually happening in my real life) I found myself sinking really deep.”
As she struggled to perform and achieve her way through motherhood and live up to the ideals she’d had before motherhood, Keli came to breaking point with God and that’s when everything changed.
“I said God, I can't do it anymore. I cannot do it. And I can just remember the love of the Lord wrapping around me. And he reminded me that no one called me to do it all. I experienced this relief in this release of God.”
Connect with Keli:
- Website: www.ministryinmothering.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/ministryinmothering
- Instagram: @ministryinmothering
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back. |
| 0:09.6 | To the Don't Mom Alone podcast, I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place |
| 0:14.4 | where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know |
| 0:20.8 | that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:23.4 | In this episode number 297, I get the privilege of introducing you to my friend Kelly Reese. |
| 0:30.6 | She is the mom to five in five years. |
| 0:34.5 | And I remember just a night when I was just broken. |
| 0:39.2 | My God. |
| 0:40.2 | I don't even have the words. |
| 0:41.2 | Like I'm sitting here getting to you, I think it about it. |
| 0:43.1 | I truly remember that night. |
| 0:44.8 | My God, I can't do it anymore. |
| 0:47.2 | I cannot do it. |
| 0:50.2 | I can just remember just like the love of the Lord wrapping around me and me being reminded |
| 0:56.4 | and the Lord just reminding me that nobody called you to do it. |
| 1:00.9 | Let me help you. |
| 1:02.4 | Let me do this through you. |
| 1:04.3 | And the Lord began to remind me of all the pressures and all the things I had been through |
| 1:08.0 | where I would naturally pray about it and lean on the Lord. |
| 1:11.2 | God help us with this. |
| 1:12.2 | Lord help me with that. |
| 1:13.2 | Help me with this. |
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