Mother Yourself To Life - Period!

Some days don’t just test your schedule, they test your soul. On a Mother’s Day that holds both tenderness and tension, I share a message for anyone trying to keep going when life feels heavier than it should: you can finish strong, and you can finish with peace.

We talk about what it means to “put a period on it,” turning spiraling thoughts into faith-filled declarations that don’t leave your future dangling in a question mark. When sickness, lack, betrayal, rejection, or fear shows up, we practice closing the sentence with truth: God is the author and finisher, and His character is steady even when your circumstances are not. If you’ve been searching for Christian encouragement, spiritual healing, and a clearer way to respond to setbacks, this mindset shift can change how you walk through the storm.

From there, we bring the Mother’s Day theme home: learning how to be a mother to yourself. Using practical traits like unconditional love, resilience, empathy, active listening, adaptability, and healthy structure, we ask honest questions about self-talk, self-esteem, and emotional regulation. We also get serious about discernment, because not every voice deserves access to your mind. We slow down, get still, and return to the priority of hearing God clearly, then responding with intention.

Finally, we look at Scripture that reflects God’s motherly comfort and fierce protection, and we end with a direct challenge: refuse self-rejection and receive God’s love as your foundation. If this resonated, subscribe, share it with someone who needs hope today, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Greetings and welcome to another episode of The Drip Line: Healing for Your Soul, a place where one can contemplate the relevance of life, the purpose of one's life, discover answers to some of life's most common questions about self, destiny, and God, and hopefully find solace and a sense of peace in a world engulfed with disorder, violence, and confusion. It happens to be Mother's Day. So I'm sending love and peace to all the women of the world that are nurturing their own biological children, another one's child, in any way, shape,

Welcome And Mother’s Day Blessing

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or form. In the last episode, I addressed the ills of the world and how so many people are suffering from brokenness, a lack of hope, confusion, and a lack of direction, a lack of faithlessness, and end up self-medicating to satisfy their own souls, or should I say, to calm the storms raging within their souls because life just isn't working out or has not lived up to one's expectations or fulfilled any desires of their heart. People are in a mess as a result and create messes because of it. So today I'm talking , going to talk about how life happens and how we can respond. How the mother in us can help us overcome. How God, being the perfect parent with the nature of a mother within, can help us overcome. And we all know life happens. Tragedies and setbacks are inevitable. They will happen. But as the saying goes, it's not how you start, but it's how you finish. And I'm here to help you finish well, to move well, to take each step one at a time with your hand in God's. Therefore, my word today

Finish Strong With A Period

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is about finishing strong and finishing the sentence with a period on it. Finish the episode of your life. Finish the current circumstance that might be trying with knowing that God's got your back. Period. He is the period because he is the author and the finisher of our lives. Amen. So when an illness comes, I am healed. Period. When lack shows up, I am prospering. Period. When the enemy comes in like a flood, God sets up a standard against him. Period. When the fiery darts of the enemy comes our way, when betrayal finds us, when betrayal arises, God says He is the perfect friend. He calls us his friend. When people forsake you and abandon you, God says he is your everlasting one. He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Period. There are no question marks with God. There is no wondering if God will help you, if God will provide for you. There is no wondering if God will carry you through. He will, period, because He says so. There is no question that can never leave or forsake you. It is impossible because that would be contrary to His character. Period. When people say you can't, you say I am victorious in Christ Jesus. Period. When loved ones abandon you and your heart aches and breaks from rejection, you say, I am beloved by God. Period. My God never leaves nor forsakes me. Period. When people bring strife and envy and jealousy to your doorstep, you say, I live in peace because his peace is the peace beyond all understanding. It is not as the world gives, it is not as you give, but it is as he gives to me. Period. When you get fired or mistreated or feel worthless, you say, I am blessed by God, and I dwell under an open heaven, and I have the favor of God and man. Period. So despite the storms, however they look, however long they last, you say Jesus spoke to the storm and it was stilled. Therefore, you say I might be in it, but I'm not of it, and it shall not have its way with me. Period. You may have suffered innumerous losses, but you say God owns everything and He has a place for me and a thing for me because He made me. Period. When the rug is pulled from beneath your feet, you say, I stand upon the rock of my salvation, the rock that is higher than I. Period. He makes my crooked paths straight. No question. Period. I am an overcomer. And then comes the explanation point. And that's Jesus. You can say, but God! It may look one way, but God! Hallelujah! And an exclamation point. So yes, it is Mother's Day. Hence, the theme of today's message is how to enjoy this day, biological mom or not, by being the best mom you can be to yourself. And how is that? You have to know that God is the best parent anyone can have, and that He trains us how to be the best to ourselves so we can be the best for one another. He is the best mother and the best father anyone could ever have. And mind you, it's you if you look at the traits that he has infused into women and look at the traits that he has infused into men, we will see him in us. The best of

Be A Mother To Yourself

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us comes from him. Now I'm not trying to be corny or pull a rabbit out of a hat. I mean it. We have to love ourselves from a motherly perspective. We have to look at the God in us, the God attributes and traits that He has infused into us that are of Him. We need to have that motherly perspective and maintain that motherly position so we can be prepped for the world, prepared for any adversity, and geared up for the warfare to keep the enemy at bay. For the enemy seeks to kill, steal, and destroy any way and anyhow and any time he can. So we have to be constantly aware of who we are created to be and make sure we are applying the skills and the talents needed to fulfill that God destiny, to fulfill the purpose that He put in us. So one way, be the best mother that we can be to ourselves, even if we still have an earthly mother. So let's look at what these traits are and what they mean to us. Lynn Strong on her website, lynnstrong.com, gives us a list. Unconditional love and nurturing. That means providing a secure emotional attachment and accepting children for who they are. The next, resilience and patience, handling high stress situations with composure and maintaining stability. The next, empathy and emotional sensitivity, acting as an emotional regulator, validating feelings and teaching emotional intelligence. In saying all this, we cannot love based on condition on what we expect a child to be or what we expect ourselves to be. We cannot reject or abandon or neglect because of our own expectations. We have to look at God's perspective and keep that in mind. We have to be patient with them and with ourselves. And in high stress situations, we can't expect the child in us or the children of us to handle it with us, to be our allies. No, it's a God thing, it's an adult thing. The next on her list is good communication and active listening. Acting as a mediator and teaching healthy interpersonal skills is a must. Active listening, recognizing the voice, recognizing what is said, recognizing what is being expressed and acknowledging it and respecting it, whether agreeing or not. Adaptability and problem solving means juggling multiple roles, work, home, childcare, and finding solutions under pressure, modeling integrity, acting as a role model by embodying honesty, kindness, and accountability. So consider this. Do you love yourself? Are you applying this list to yourself as your own mom? Think about it. So many people will take a second thought to that. Some can easily admit that they do not at all, and others that they do indeed hate who they are. Do you take the time to acknowledge the goodness in yourself, the nice things about you? Do you take into account the nice things that people say about you instead of just the negative? Do you look at the consideration you've had for others? At a good deed that you have done. There is something good in all of

Stop The Inner Critic

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us. We are God made. Do you take the time to speak good things to yourself instead of replaying over and over the negative experiences, the things you think you messed up on? Do you applaud yourself more than criticize yourself? Even if you're going through a tough time that you might have brought upon yourself, applaud yourself for navigating through it. Applaud yourself for not giving up. Applaud yourself for forging ahead. Do you find yourself speaking negative words to other people and yourself or finding positivity in each situation and in who you are? It's a must to treat yourself with kindness and with patience and with self-respect. It's important to find a level of self-esteem that will lend to you moving forward in positivity and in optimism. How do you treat yourself? You should treat yourself to something special or do something that soothes your soul with goodness and joy at some point or the other through the week, even through the day. Stop beating yourself up. Nurture yourself. Nurt ure self with self-forgiveness, with patience and laughter. Do you take yourself too seriously? Or can you laugh at the foibles and the missteps? Remember, don't stay stuck in them. Move on and move forward. But it is essential to take a deep look at your relationship with you. Again, pay attention to how you speak to yourself. Pay attention to your thought life. Regulate. Take note. Write a journal. What did you do today? What did you do for yourself today? What good things did you say to yourself? Now, when Lynn Strong talks about resiliency and patience, we can be reminded that we have to roll with the punches and take one day at a time and not expect to be the hero every day, every time something goes wrong. Everything cannot be fixed in a day. God didn't finish all of his creation in one day. We have to stop and smell the roses. We have to stop and take a deep breath before trying to solve everything yesterday. We oftentimes take on so much that we don't realize that most of it is not ours to carry. Hear this. Consider the efforts of a well-balanced, emotionally intelligent mom raising

Resilience Means One Step At A Time

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her child. There are stages of development and responsibilities that a mother must consider and also provide for a child according to where that child is developed mentally. A child crawls first. The mother doesn't make them walk. The child might take only one step. The mother's not gonna expect 20. So give yourself that same affordability. Examine your abilities and your mental and emotional capacity before you try to do too much or take on too much or carry so much. Be empathetic to self. Let yourself hear, feel, taste, see, and wait. Sift through it all and see what's left, and then take the meat of it and chew on that. Get some substance and nourishment from it. This means the whole of a thing is not necessarily the whole of a thing that you're supposed to take on. The whole of a thing is not necessarily the whole of a thing. It may not be the core of the thing, it may not be the real issue. So be sensitive. Be sensitive to your surroundings and to yourself. How are you feeling? What are you thinking? Why are you reacting? Why are you emotional? Be realistic in dissecting and discerning what must be confronted, what must be accepted, ignored, or changed. Listen, listen, listen. Be still. Communication is everything. Proverbs say be slow to speak and quick to listen. We hear that over and over again. Communication is hearing, truly listening, being attentive to it, responding, reacting, and speaking. So how do you listen? To whom do you listen? What voices are you tuned into? Do we hear too much from the wrong source? Are we listening to the wrong voices and responding to them the wrong way? Are we being provoked, impacted, and poked? First and foremost, we must be tuned in to God. We must be able to recognize his voice. We should recognize that even our intuition is of God and not of our own soulish thoughts and emotions. Nothing else really matters except that we hear from him and respond to him. It's not about hearing what we need to hear or hearing what we want to hear. Nothing else matters. Except once that we do hear from him, we need to respond to it, to him directly, almost immediately, attentively, with intention. People will fill our ears with gossip, lies, half-truths, rumors, false information, personal beliefs without a foundation, myths, insults, negativity, their own disillusionment, hate, envy, and their own fears. They will give us unwanted advice, bad advice, corrupted advice, what you want to hear advice, biased advice, and send us all in the direction that really pertains to them and not us. They will dish out misguided agendas and even evil ones. So we have to listen. We have to be still and listen. God says, be still and know that He is God. His voice is the most important. Even our own voice can be a problem. Are we ourselves talking from the wrong position, from the wrong attitude, from the wrong beliefs, from past failures, from past hurts, negative emotions, wrong emotions, lack of experience, ignorance, negativity, pride, or ego, or what? Or are we listening to the one who knows everything? Are we getting our information from the one and only one, the Lord God Almighty? Are we tapped into his frequency? And are we getting his message? Have we learned to recognize how he moves and speaks to us? Are we tuned into his station? Or are we just scrolling up and down the airwaves for whatever seems right and satisfying at the moment for whatever situation we're dealing with? We have to be tuned into his frequency. Matthew chapter 11, verse 15 says, He who has ears to hear, let him hear. So ask God to give you the ear to hear, because he's always speaking. Luke 11, verse 28, but he said, Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it, who hear Jesus, the living word, and keep him close, maintain it, and believe it, live on it, work it. John 14, chapter um sorry, John chapter 14, verse 26 says, But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, meaning in Jesus' name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. So God speaks, and sometimes we bury it. God speaks, sometimes we don't pay attention, but he will bring it to our remembrance if we want to hear, and we should want to, because he's the all-knowing God. So as God speaks, we are to hear and respond and spread his truth. We are to be seen as his voice on earth, his arms, his feet, his hands, his mouthpiece, his love, his embrace. We are to live according to his word and thus be transmitters of it, of him, of his love. Therefore, mothers are supposed to give good advice and direction from God and all the life experiences, all the decisions and failures made. Mothers are supposed to help train up the child. Proverbs chapter 22, verse 6 says, Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. So one, we have a God father, mother in God that we should listen to, abide and obey in. And if you read Proverbs, every chapter in Proverbs, you will hear God saying, Don't forget his ways and to live in wisdom. And the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord God Almighty. Hence, as people, we are to continue in that direction of motivation to hear him, to be sensitive to him, and to be sensitive to what is happening around us, to be self-aware, to know what self needs next, what self needs, what self needs now, what self needs going forward. And that should be in prosperity in mind, body, soul, and spirit. Prosperity in mind is the end goal. To be linked in and locked in with God. We prosper in Him. Here's what Juliet House says on her website about being a mother and the core responsibilities of a mother. Physical and emotional nurturing, caring for daily needs, feeding, safety, and being emotionally available, education and guidance, teaching moral values, social skills, and providing intellectual stimulation as a first teacher, household management, organizing routines, managing logistics, and creating a harmonious environment, discipline and structure, setting boundaries and enforcing rules consistently to ensure children become balanced adults, fostering independence, encouraging self-sufficiency, and supporting the child's personal

God As Parent And Healthy Boundaries

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development, self-care and personal maintenance, balancing motherhood with personal identity and well-being, avoiding total self-sacrifice. Listen to that. Avoiding total self-sacrifice. We're not to be burned out. Not at all. Now you see, God is the first parent, right? So think of the responsibilities that she just listed the physical and emotional nurturing. God does that on a daily basis for us if we would only pay attention, if we would only be available. Education and guidance. God teaches and guides. He never leaves us nor forsakes us. He says the Holy Spirit will teach us. Now, he gave Adam and Eve directives in the garden, but they ignored them. God is always on the move. Management, God has a structure, the kingdom has a structure, and we have a position in it. So we need to recognize that. Discipline and structure. Again, boundaries. There are boundaries in our lives. We cannot be willy-nilly all over the place. Yes, nothing is really black or white, but we need to understand how to move through those gray areas effectively with discipline. And that comes with maintaining a close relationship with the Lord, understanding his word and how his kingdom operates, and understanding who we are in it and what we're to do in it. Fostering independence. Okay, so there comes a time when we should become spiritually mature and mature as parents to natural children. Personal development is ongoing. And God says we're to work out our salvation. And that means continually moving closer, continually maturing in Christ. So why don't we as people give that to ourselves? Why don't we nurture ourselves? And why don't we recognize responsibilities and focus on them? We are forever changing, or at least we should be to some degree. Hence, nurturing is always necessary as guidance is, as education is, as being organized is. We should be attentive to what's happening around us that is impactful. Meaning, not everything, but what really pertains to everything God in our lives. Building a harmonious lifestyle is important. You want to develop peace. God gives us that peace. So let us build harmonious lifestyles and homes that feel safe. Structure is needed, self-discipline again is needed, and encouragement. Encourage self because we're always moving through stages of life. And each stage brings challenges and transformation. Transition occurs. So let us encourage ourselves as we move through it. Let us encourage one another. God is always there to encourage us. He says he is our help in the time of trouble. He reminds us that when we grow weary and tired, he will lift us up. He will cause us to soar on the wings of eagles. He will help us walk when we're too tired, when we want to faint, and he will put that speed in us to run that race with fervor, strength, and power that comes from God. Now the race will look different for all of us. Transitions and transformations will look different to all of us. Structures will be different because we're all made different with different purposes. We have different skill sets and talents, and we have our own destiny to fulfill. But one thing should be clear we need to put our hand in God's hands. For we were made and built for God by God and with a God-ordained purpose. Isaiah 55, verse 11. So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. So God made the world world, the heavens and the earth, and everything in it, seen and unseen, by his word. God spoke and everything was made. The earth was spoken into existence by the word of God, the word being Jesus Christ. And from the earth, God made Adam, and from Adam God made Eve. And we became male and female, man and woman,

God’s Motherly Nature In Scripture

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with intention and destiny. Hence, there are things to do with intention, and there are common roles to be fulfilled and played, such as protector and provider of our own lives and of our family, ensuring safety and resources. We are to play mentor and teacher. Teach yourself, educate, be relevant, mentoring through life's lessons and education. We can mentor others, we can be attentive to what we need to grow and to be relevant as the world changes, as things change. We are to be mediators, resolving conflicts within self among family members, but in companionship with the Lord God Almighty, our counselor, and cheerleaders, as I said before, offering encouragement to self and others around us, fostering self-confidence. So if you can't be one, find one. If you don't have one, pray for one. But we can always look to God to be protector, provider, mentor, and teacher, mediator, and cheerleader. We can. But above all, know that in all the attributes of a mom, and all the responsibilities of a mom, and of all the roles fulfilled as a mom, the God factor is in all of them. God came first, and of him we are made, and made in his image as he made us, male and female. We carry him in us. Hence, is God like mom or is the mom mirroring the nurturing, unconditional love and life of God? God first. We were made to glorify him. We carry him in us. He is in our DNA. I will prove it. The Bible will. Motherly attributes of God. In Isaiah 66, verse 13, we find that God is comforting us and nurturing us. He says, Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word. Your brethren that hated you, they cast you out for my namesake, said, Let the Lord be glorified, but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. Verse 13, as one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. In Isaiah chapter 42, verse 14, God talks about how he created us and how he labored over us. God is depicted as a nurturing figure who feeds and supports his children, reminiscent of a nursing mother. In Isaiah chapter 49, he says, But Zion said, The Lord have forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. And God says, Can a woman forget her suckling child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, that they may forget, yet will I not forget you? Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me. We are etched in his heart. Jesus was nailed to the cross, nailed in the palms of his hands, and we are written there because he died for each one of us. God is a fierce protector. Just as a bear is robbed of her cubs, or a mother eagle caring for its young, or a lioness protecting her tribe, God or her pride, God is shown as protective of his children, sometimes exhibiting a maternal wrath against any threat. Hosea chapter 13 verse 7 and 8 read; Therefore I will be unto them as a lion, as a leopard, by the way, will I observe them. I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the call of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion. The wild beast shall tear them. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help. We are Israel. In accepting Christ, we become part of his body. We become part of him, and he is jealous for us. Anyone that would hurt us, he will go after. And when we turn away, he will sit there and hurt for us and long for us as a loving parent does and misses their child. So God is compassionate as a mother giving birth. In uh Luke chapter 12, verse 6, it says, Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. God made you and gave birth to you, and he pays attention, and when you suffer, he suffers with you. Corinthians chapter one, verses three and four read, Blessed be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our afflictions so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. So be comforted. Learn how to receive his comfort, learn how to comfort self and there by being able to comfort others. God is the source of all love. So on Mother's Day, remember you have the best teacher and mom in God. Treat yourself well today. Remember that God's love is perfect, He is perfection, He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and ever-present, and the perfect parent. The embodiment of this character was infused in us when He created Adam and Eve. His character is infused in us to be moms and dads. So we must be sure to have the mind of Christ, to seek to be Christ-like in how we consider ourselves, how we treat our own lives. Love self. It is

Love Yourself And Close With Hope

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required. It is a command. We are to love God as He loves us. We are to love ourselves. He made us. We are not our own. We have no right to not love ourselves. We don't have a right to judge ourselves. No, we're not perfect. But, we must allow for mistakes and missteps but still love self because God still loves us. We're not going to be perfect until Christ returns, but we are perfectly made in Him and perfectly loved by Him. So reap the best by knowing His character and faithfulness and thus accept it. Accept His love. Accept Him for who He is, for who He says He is, believing in who He says He is. He is not a traitor, He is not sometimey. He is not sometimes with us and sometimes not. He is our ever present God in the time of trouble. And, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So tap into that perfect love. Tune in to His station so that we can live our best lives in His way and in His will. Let's make sure that our desires are fulfilled in Him because we accept and love ourselves because of Him as He has called us to do. We need not be rejected. But let me put it this way we are not rejected by Him. If someone has rejected us, God doesn't. So let us not reject our own selves. Let us not live dejected lives because of someone else's failings or doings or evil or incapacity. God is who matters. And our identity should be derived and nurtured through Him, from Him. So, in closing, I hope this message touches your heart, that you will consider how you've lived, how you've treated yourself, that you consider how you think about yourself and those around you. Consider how you love those around you, your children, your parents, your siblings, co-workers- everything matters. God is love. So love yourself. Allow his love to come into your heart. Be the mother to yourself. Even if you had no mother, remember, we can only be moms and dads because the character of God was infused in us as male and female. Until next time, be blessed, be loved, be tuned in and locked in. Be saved by Him. Be in love with Him and with yourself, no matter where you find yourself, He will heal you in any and all brokenness. Truth drips.