When Motherhood Feels Too Hard | Ep. 105
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There's a reason our podcast opens with, "Motherhood is hard." Because it is! From sleepless nights and potty training accidents to constant discipline and raising adolescents, motherhood can leave us crying in the bathroom and eating from the secret chocolate stash. In this episode, Emily and Laura consider how the gospel breathes hope into the moments of motherhood that leave us feeling undone. The good news of Jesus means that God calls, equips, and sustains us in the work he's prepared for us to do—including requests for snacks, sibling squabbles, boo-boo kisses, and the fifth reading of their favorite book. We were never meant to mother in our own strength, and by the kindness of God, we don't have to.
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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 |
| 0:06.6 | risenmotherhood.com forward slash give. |
| 0:15.2 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, and the next we feel |
| 0:20.3 | like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the |
| 0:24.8 | gospel to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. |
| 0:30.4 | So mama, whether you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, |
| 0:34.4 | we hope you'll find true encouragement and laughter here. |
| 0:38.6 | This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I am Emily here with Laura. |
| 0:50.5 | Hello, hello. And today we are talking about how to deal when motherhood just feels too hard, |
| 0:58.1 | when your responsibilities feel completely overwhelming, when you have no idea how to move |
| 1:02.4 | forward or when you just feel like you can't do it. Hopefully that includes all of us. |
| 1:06.6 | I hope so. If you do not, I don't find that way to date. I want to meet you, please. |
| 1:12.8 | But first, we are really excited because this week, we are kind of doing a pledge drive to |
| 1:20.2 | financially support the ministry of Risen Motherhood. And we're really excited to talk to you |
| 1:24.8 | guys about it and excited to invite you to get involved. Yeah, earlier this year, some of you may |
| 1:29.9 | have been along for the ride with us when we became entirely community supported. So we launched |
| 1:35.1 | a platform called Patreon at that time and then also received a lot of one-time donations |
| 1:39.4 | through many of you. And so we are hoping to just continue that now. We also formalize our |
| 1:44.8 | mission statement earlier this year. So our mission statement is to encourage, equip, and challenge |
| 1:49.6 | moms to apply the gospel to their everyday lives. So if you're new to our ministry or if you just need |
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