46. The Hope-Filled Life of a Mistaking Parent including a Mother & Son Discussion

The Hope-Filled Life of a Mistaking Parent including a Mother & Son Discussion between The Practically Speaking MOM and her oldest son, Nathan.

This week's podcast is a lesson learned the hard way by a Mistaking Parent (me), and God's grace for all of us imperfect moms! You'll also hear the beginning of a mother and son discussion between me, The Practically Speaking MOM, and my oldest son, Nathan, who is now grown and married.  That conversation will finish up next week. We're calling this series The Hope-Filled Life of the Mistaking Parent. Now that might not sound like a very hopeful topic, but it is. The wonderful thing about letting our merciful God lead us in parenthood is that he can bring HAPPY HARVEST even into the lives of IMPERFECT PARENTS. After all, we're all imperfect. 

 As an intentional parent. I am constantly in the process of peeling away the layers of me that are not good for me, or not good for those around me. 
Today I'm being vulnerable and sharing some of the layers I had to peel away. But as I mentioned, there is victory at the end of this story, a time of harvest for a very imperfect parent. 

"Moms, I know you wouldn't be checking out a blog or podcast on "becoming more intentional to build strong families" if you didn't already love deeply. I know you love deeply. I loved deeply, but I wasn't loving as well as my kids needed me to be. My husband was sweet but not strong enough and I was harsh and unpalatable. We needed to learn that we had some work to do on learning to love well. We needed God to direct us to a better way, so we became very open to God's direction on parenting. We studied and grew and studied and grew. Eventually God gave us a guide for parents that we call "Your Love Becomes Their Strength: Answering the Six Questions of Your Child's Heart." This material, that eventually developed from our searching  the heart of God regarding loving our children well, became something we taught in Sunday school class settings, large convention settings. I've taught to moms' groups and small groups. It's now my most requested speaking topic! These questions are: 

💎Am I worth treasuring? 

 🎁Am I worth knowing? 

 🔒Am I worth protecting? 

 🥇Am I worth believing in? 

 👪Am I worth including? 

 🤗Am I worth restoring? "

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