Wish List Ignored? Loving the Giver More Than the Gift | Ep. 114
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
You crafted the perfect Christmas list for your kids—a blend of beautiful, educational, practical, and personal. All will be well when they open their pre-approved number of acceptable gifts. That is, until the gift-giver enters the scene and breaks all the rules. In this episode, Emily and Laura flip the gift-giving conversation to ask, "Mama, what's going on in your heart?" When we remember God's love to us through Christ, we can see the gift-giver through the lens of grace as we consider our response. Let the richness of Jesus's birth set a tone of gratefulness in your home this gift-giving season.
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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. |
| 0:14.4 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, and the next we feel like the |
| 0:19.7 | worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel to be repeated |
| 0:25.2 | over and over giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether you're sipping cold |
| 0:31.2 | coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true encouragement and laughter here. |
| 0:37.8 | This is the Risen Motherhood podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Emily here with my sister in law, Laura. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, hello. We are excited to talk gift giving today. Yeah. And hopefully a little bit about |
| 0:57.9 | gratefulness and definitely a lot about the gospel too. Hopefully. Hopefully. But before we jump |
| 1:03.5 | into that, just a reminder that Advent season is here. The PANAS. Upon us. Do you like that? |
| 1:09.2 | Upon us. So definitely check out our website, risenmotherhood.com, for ideas of what to do during |
| 1:14.4 | Advent. We've got some roundups on our social media. We have articles. We have podcasts. We've |
| 1:19.9 | got a lot of ideas for ways to make this season not more rushed, not more stressful, but hopefully |
| 1:26.3 | peaceful, intentional, and a good reminder of Christ. So check that out. Yeah. It's a good time |
| 1:32.3 | to implement it. You still got like a week or so. But in light of that, all of our kiddos are busy |
| 1:36.8 | working on their Christmas list, which they've been adding to all year. I think my kids started |
| 1:40.8 | their Christmas list in July. Oh, January. They started right after Christmas. Mom, next Christmas. |
| 1:47.3 | And I've been using that excuse with my kids since the summer to why we're not getting something, |
| 1:51.6 | because Christmas is coming. My son the other day was like, Christmas takes forever because they |
| 1:57.6 | kept saying that. But we all love Christmas. But as moms, there's definitely a sort of an |
| 2:04.4 | angst that can come out, especially when you become a mom and realize the selfish spirit that can |
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