When Motherhood Brings Deep Suffering | Ep. 115
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
We experience daily hardships in motherhood that weigh on us—difficult decisions, potty training, sleeplessness, and more. But sometimes we experience deeper, more profound suffering that makes us cry out, "Why God?" In this episode, Emily and Laura offer gospel encouragement for those in the midst of deep suffering. Suffering is different for everyone, but scripture offers unshakeable hope in every situation. Since God didn't excuse himself from suffering, one day—through Christ—our suffering will give way to joy.
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"When Suffering Falls on Our Children" - Sarah Walton
"Seeing Beyond the Suffering" - Trevin Wax
"8 Reasons to Cling to Scripture in Suffering" - Kristen Wetherell
"Why You're Suffering" - Charles Spurgeon
"Suffering in Community" - Wendy Alsup
God's Grace in Your Suffering - David Powlison
Suffering - Paul David Tripp
Holding Onto Hope - Nancy Guthrie
A Path Through Suffering - Elisabeth Elliot
The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
When the Darkness Will Not Lift - John Piper
The Scars That Have Shaped Me - Vaneetha Rendall Risner
Hope When It Hurts - Kristen Wetherell & Sarah Walton
Sing a New Song - Lydia Brownback
The Valley of Vision: Puritan Prayers
"How Can God Be Sovereign and Good and Allow Suffering?" - John Piper
"Though You Slay Me" - Shane & Shane
"Psalm 126" - Bifrost Arts & Molly Parden
"Satisfied in You" - The Sing Team
"How Firm a Foundation" - Norton Hall Band
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Risen Motherhood is funded by our generous donors. |
| 0:03.9 | If you like this podcast, please consider joining them at risenmotherhood.com forward slash give. |
| 0:14.7 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, and the next we feel like the |
| 0:20.0 | worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel to be |
| 0:25.0 | repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether you're sipping |
| 0:31.3 | cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true encouragement and laughter |
| 0:37.0 | here. This is the Risen Motherhood podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:47.0 | Well hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Laura Whiffler and I have |
| 0:51.6 | my sister-in-law Emily Jensen here. Hello. And before we get to today's show, we wanted to |
| 0:56.4 | remind you all, hopefully you know by now, but we post a lot of articles on our website every week. |
| 1:02.1 | I think it's like two a week, right? And today on the show we're actually talking about a tougher |
| 1:06.8 | topic. We're talking about suffering, but maybe if something comes to mind as we're talking today |
| 1:11.7 | or there's something specific, please feel free to search our past podcast. You can probably find |
| 1:17.2 | something potentially on what you're thinking of or in addition, the articles that we post on |
| 1:21.5 | our site, you can search those and look, that's where we often talk about really specific topics |
| 1:27.6 | that happen in motherhood more. We drill down into specific things that maybe we won't go into |
| 1:33.6 | depth on this show. So we want to encourage you to head to the site and definitely click that |
| 1:38.3 | article tab to look a little bit deeper. Yeah. And the way that you can get that right to your |
| 1:42.8 | inbox is just by subscribing to our RSS feed. So then that'll come straight to you twice a week |
| 1:48.9 | and you can always stay up to date on what it is that's on our site. Yes, we'll post a link to that |
| 1:53.9 | subscribe button on our show notes and it's easy to find. Okay, so we're talking about suffering |
| 1:59.5 | today. And a lot of the shows that we do on resumotherhood do talk about those everyday hardships |
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