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MOTHERHOOD IS HARD.

One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, the next we're the worst mom on the planet. Which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel repeated over and over—giving us hope in the everyday moments.

 
 
 
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Every Wednesday, we discuss how the gospel impacts a mom’s everyday life.

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ARTICLES

Real-life encouragement and practical application on motherhood topics.

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Oh Death, Where Is Your Sting?
Oh Death, Where Is Your Sting?
The Gift of Sleeplessness
The Gift of Sleeplessness
Truth for Nervous Mothers
Truth for Nervous Mothers
How the Gospel Produces Joy in Mothering
How the Gospel Produces Joy in Mothering
 
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ...

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Motherhood throws some of the toughest challenges our way. It’s easy to feel lonely, isolated, and ill-equipped. And, often, just at the moment we finally start discussing our fears, frustrations, and questions with another mom, the drink spills, a fight breaks out, or we hear a loud crash in the adjoining room. Risen Motherhood offers a place to be still and listen to warm conversation, friendly advice, and Biblical insights from real moms who are in the middle of the mothering years themselves. And, the good news? If something spills, you can press pause and pick right back up where you left off! Risen Motherhood is a wonderful reminder of the importance of motherhood, as well as the good new of the Gospel.

Melissa Kruger, Editor at The Gospel Coalition

"The ladies at Risen Motherhood believe the gospel is *the* good news for moms— that there’s no better news, practical tips, or wise advice that could be shared. The gospel alone is the power of God for salvation. I commend this gospel-centered ministry to every mom who wants to see how Jesus is with her in her mothering work."

Gloria Furman, Author of "Missional Motherhood" and "Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full"

"Risen Motherhood is an answer to prayer. Being a mama can be a lonely road—one where you think you are the only one who has troubles and piles of never-ending laundry. But it isn’t that at all! In motherhood, we meet Christ in the mundane of everyday, and we aren’t meant to live life alone; we are meant to be in community with other believers. Through Risen Motherhood, I have been able to find encouragement to do just that. Emily and Laure are real life mamas who come just as they are. They speak from their heart and their greatest desire is to glorify Jesus above all else! Through their words, wisdom, and guest speakers I have been greatly encouraged and inspired to disciple my children and live for Christ. Doing those never-ending piles of laundry is actually a joy now, because I have Emily and Laure right there on my phone, speaking the life of the gospel into my weary mama heart."

Gretchen Saffles, Owner of Well Watered Women

"What I wouldn’t have given for a podcast like Risen Motherhood in my early years of mothering! With just the right mix of grace and truth, Laura and Emily remind listeners of the hundred ways that God nurtures and cares for us while we nurture and care for our own children. Risen Motherhood is the perfect companion to those long weary days and sleepless nights, bringing you grace upon God’s good grace."

Hannah Anderson, author of "Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul"

I came across Risen Motherhood a couple months ago ... and it has been such an encouragement to me. God has used this podcast to shift my thinking of motherhood from “just getting through the day,” to “this is eternal work I’m doing.” Seriously, I would recommend this podcast to all mommas out there who need Christ-centered reminders that our work is not in vain, we are impacting our children (even in the small things) for the Kingdom of God!

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Laura: "How can we encourage our child that God is still worthy of our trust even in the midst of hard things?"⠀ .⠀ Tim: "I guess the answer for kids is basically the same answer for adults: point them to the cross where we see the most evil thing humanity has ever been able to do or experience brought the greatest good that humanity has ever experienced. If the cross can be deemed something good—and it is something good for us as the path for redemption—then God can make good of anything that happens in this world. We see the goodness of God displayed even through grief, pain, and wrath on the cross. Therefore, we can say anything that happens in this life can bring good to us and can display the goodness of God. We’re trying to point back to the character of God."⠀ .⠀ Did you catch this week's interview with @challies? We discuss how to talk to our kids about death, and how to use those conversations to help them see their own need for Jesus.
“The beautiful bouquet lay on top of a small, ivory and white marbled casket. And inside of the casket was the body of the most precious baby girl. My baby girl.⠀ .⠀ My daughter Evie passed away just hours after she was born. Her birth was the culmination of four months of anxious anticipation knowing that birth would also mean death for my broken baby. ⠀ .⠀ ...The Lord was so incredibly faithful to carry my heart through the anxious and tear-filled weeks following Evie’s diagnosis and answered so many prayers to make our short time with her so very sacred. But the months that followed her passing were some of the darkest days of my life. And just when my heart began to heal with the birth of our rainbow baby, three years later the unthinkable happened again. ⠀ .⠀ This time it was a baby boy, just as broken and fragile. His body was so very weak from the moment of birth, and it was immediately obvious that he wouldn’t be with us for long. . ...Sometimes the enemy tries to offer me the lies that death and the grave have won, and that God isn’t able to be trusted. And sometimes, I reach for those lies because I don’t always understand … What Author of life can snatch life away before it has even begun? What Abba Father can take a child away from a mother? What kind of God would do that?⠀ .⠀ I’ll tell you what kind of God. The same God who allowed the loss of his own child to make a way for mine.”⠀ .⠀ Today’s article by @sarah_rieke focuses on infant loss. While we believe the gospel is our only hope in life and death, we recognize grief exists in many stages and this article may be difficult for some moms. Link in profile.
✨A new show is LIVE.✨⠀ .⠀ “Mommy, what happens when someone dies?” When our kids ask us about death, answering can feel intimidating and even sad. How much should we share? What can they understand? Will we scare them? 🤷⠀ .⠀ 👉In this episode, Emily and Laura interview Tim @challies about how to talk to our kids about death. Tim is a husband, father of teenagers, pastor, and writer who encourages us to bring the conversation about death back to our children’s hearts and the hope they have in Jesus. We don’t need to worry so much about what to say to our kids. God gave us what we need in his word to teach our kids the victory of the gospel in the face of death.❤️⠀ .⠀ 🎧 Listen in anywhere podcasts are streamed, or find it directly on the website! (link in profile)
Are you wondering how many children you should have? Maybe you're newly married and giving some initial thought to family size, or maybe you're wondering if you should "go for the girl," with lucky number five. Wherever you're at in family planning, we have a FREE document that may shed some light as you and your husband move forward. (While recognizing that God is ultimately sovereign over the opening and closing of the womb.)⠀ .⠀ At RM, one of our hopes is to encourage mothers to grow in their ability to think with a gospel-lens in their everyday life by applying God's framework laid out in scripture. To assist in this skill, we've started to develop questionnaires around sensitive and weighty decisions that many moms face. ⠀ ⠀ And one of those decisions is how many children you hope to have, so we've created a questionnaire that a married couple can work through while prayerfully determining how God would lead them in planning for their future family.⠀ ⠀ You can get this free document on our website (link in profile), no strings attached. Made possible by our generous donors. ⠀ ⠀ Psssst: And if you like this questionnaire, we have lots of others! Find them on our site!
“Does any new mother get enough sleep? I’ve wondered why, when our bodies seem to desperately need it most, we are denied precious, uninterrupted sleep. The early stage of motherhood was a blur of three hour sleep cycles, of never having enough and also having abundantly more than I could have imagined. It was frustration, fury, wonder, and awe in the same breath for this baby I grew but did not yet know. ⠀ .⠀ I had my baby in the middle of October, right before that long stretch of winter, when it gets dark so early and for so long. Those nights had moments of peace as I held those little hands and nursed, but mostly, the nights were a strange mix of extreme loneliness and wanting desperately to be alone in my own bed, to not be awake with the worries and wonders of motherhood pressing heavily on my heart while my colicky baby cried against the quiet of the dark. I learned every creak in my floor as I paced and bounced, swayed by my questions, my insecurities, my fear of the unknown, and the love I tried endlessly to cultivate. ⠀ .⠀ ...I both craved sleep and was afraid of it, because I knew it would catapult me through time, into the future I could not control or predict. I began to think if I could just blow my worries to the side a little bit, I’d see behind them the God who is not linear, who never slumbers or sleep, who holds all my days and nights in his hand. I began to think the way I hold my baby is the way I’m held. I’d never drop my baby, no matter what she asked. He’ll never drop me, even in my questions and worries. Through every dark hour, I’m held.⠀ .⠀ Meditating on these truths, I finally saw this wakefulness as something of a gift. ⠀ .⠀ I held my baby close and through her cries, I rocked her and lifted up my own griefs to God. When she was inconsolable, I bounced and nursed and cast my own anxieties and fears on the God who cares for me. I took every worry about my own inability as a mother to love and protect my child and lifted them, each waking hour, to the God who taught us to address him as Father. ⠀ .⠀ ...Maybe one day, we’ll find out that this wakefulness was a greatest treasure.”⠀ .⠀ More in today’s article from @rachaeldymski.
Down on my knees in the sand, I tried to reason with him, "Calm down. We'll come back tomorrow. It's time to go. You need to listen to mommy."⠀ .⠀ All my quiet motherly words were drowned out by his blaring, "Noooooo!!!!!" that drew the attention of beachgoers around us. My heart rate increased as I started the process of getting him to the car. (A process that looked more like trying to carry an oversized fish.) But we made it...and I was sufficiently embarrassed.⠀ .⠀ Public tantrums can leave us feeling low. As moms, we're used to casting judgment on ourselves—sizing up our choices and our children's responses in order to grade our success. But when we also feel like the accusations are happening in front of a public jury, the sense of condemnation is real.⠀ .⠀ How do we recover from an incident like this without sinking into great despair? Here are a few things to keep in mind:⠀ .⠀ Remember that in the court of God's opinion—through and because of Christ—the case is already closed. He took the "guilty" verdict in the most public way so we could be cleared of all accusation. "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Rom 8:1)⠀ .⠀ We might experience the human emotion of embarrassment, but it doesn't have to become despair. God already knows about the tantrum. In fact, he knows everything about us and he chooses to love us in Christ. "...but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom 5:8) We can confidently move toward God through a relationship with his son. ⠀ .⠀ When we are rooted and grounded in his love, we can fix our eyes ahead, recover, and walk out of the courthouse. We're free. And as "by grace through faith" moms, we can love others with grace.⠀ .⠀ We can wipe away tears, administer appropriate consequences, give our concerns to God, and walk with the Lord another day.⠀ .⠀ We can even go back to the same beach.⠀ . ⠀ 💙 Emily
 

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