Meeting God in the Middle of Your Busy Life
Motherhood throws many of us for a loop. Amidst the joyful chaos, we can find ourselves a little short of the silence and time to ourselves that we often feel we need to seek God. We’ll walk through several spiritual practices such as prayer, silence, and worship with ideas about how to practice them in the middle of busy family life.
Simplicity: Getting Past All the Stuff
Mom life is many things. Exhausting? Frequently. Joyful? Often. Simple? Not so much. We long for our lives to be simple, but what is Biblical simplicity anyway? We’ll discuss several strategies for moving past the anxiety that often accompanies motherhood and into a more simple life.
Being Loved: Living a Life of Hospitality
Far from just throwing dinner parties, hospitality is an essential spiritual practice. It might be, in fact, the answer to our digital age of loneliness. Using my own experience of being embraced by my community after being diagnosed with breast cancer when I was pregnant with my third child, I’ll explore what hospitality really means in the Bible and now, how it is vital to our living in community, and why it is important to receive it as well as give it.
The Lessons of Losing
The narrative of our culture is often all about winning. As moms we feel pressured not only to be winners ourselves, but also, and for many of us more urgently, to make our children winners. Yet in the Bible, while God’s people do experience resounding victories, they also experience crushing defeat. God’s plan is clearly not for us always to win. How can we take a step back from the hyper-competitive nature of today’s parenting and learn this important lesson for ourselves and for our children? We’ll explore some of the important lessons of losing and brainstorm some ways to release ourselves and our children from the relentless competitiveness we experience in school, sports, and everyday life.
Creating Space for God
Life today doesn’t seem to offer a great deal of silence, yet it is essential in order to listen to and connect with God. We’ll talk about why we find Psalms 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God,” so difficult and how we can better put it into practice.
