Light Duties

Following on from last episode when we talked about how children are not a hindrance to abiding in Jesus, we consider how we can still feed on God's Word in the busy days of raising very young, very …

Our knee-high children are not a spiritual tripping hazard. Some thoughts on why we struggle, what might help and what doesn't.

Being joined with Jesus is our foundational duty in Christian motherhood, but it isn't something we do alone. It just so happens that the nature of motherhood makes loving Jesus' people a very easy t…

What is the one thing which makes all the difference in raising kids for God?

God's Bible is the only way we can know and give the good we owe in motherhood. But it's more like a hike in a National Park than checking off a shopping list...

Being seen doesn't make something more real or more important.

Our benchmark in motherhood is not just avoiding harm, but actively pursuing what is good.

We are powerless over time, but Jesus has given us one small dominion: how we use it. The young years of mothering demand a lot of time and never have women had more choices for how to fill it.

40th birthday meditations on Psalm 90. The brutal crust peels back, giving consolation.

With recent articles about the limitations and temporariness in view, Psalm 90 is a good place to linger.

The fact that so much of mothering is a temporary work done with perishable materials often leads us to feel it is meaningless. This isn't helped by the language of Christian "priorities". 

LImitations make ideals seem further away. But Jesus is Lord of all and that means he is Lord of all the ins and outs of motherhood too.

Limitations and fear take us low, and that is God's gift to us.

What might change if parents were taught how, and did, their God-given duty in the spiritual discipleship of their children?

We've been considering how a lot of our trouble with motherhood comes from our ideas about marriage. This episode traces a few of the difficulties which happen.

A little of my own backstory.

Protecting our exit strategies changes how we do marriage and mothering.

Whether they know it or not, fathers are responsible for raising their kids to know God. 

"Jesus changes husbands into men who lead well and he changes wives into women who help divinely. Helping is not a role we’re rescued from, along with our sin. It’s a role we’re redeemed to mature in…

Why are men and women given different instructions in passages like Titus 2? Let's think through the architecture which leads to the differences.