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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

March 31, 2020May 10, 2022

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I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but o

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but our children don’t need the “perfect” mom, they don’t need moms who have it all together, who know all the answers or who always get it right.

What they need are mothers who show up in the middle of the messy and beautiful process of sanctification with surrendered hearts, waiting on the Lord to use them as vessels for his goodness and mercy to pour out. 🕊️

For years, I’ve found myself longing to show up “perfect” for him, but when the trials of life come and the storms feel like they just won’t stop, but the most freeing truth I’ve learned in motherhood is that I don’t have to be “perfect mom.”

In fact, walking in the way of brokenness actually blesses our children more than striving for perfection as mamas. Because it’s our brokenness that leads our hearts to repentance, and it’s repentance that guides us into dependence on the Lord.

When our children only see perfection, we begin to engrain a way of thinking that expects perfection from our children, which then leads our children to follow a pattern of striving for perfection, that will always be out of reach.

But, by the blood of Jesus, we are invited to surrender every ounce of our brokenness unto his perfection, as he declares forgiven, redeemed and dearly loved.

It’s a blessing for our children to see our brokenness because by God’s grace, he makes a way for brokenness to display the power of his redeeming love.

So to all the temptation that calls us to perfection, in all the ways that the enemy speaks “you don’t measure up,” may we take hold of the truth that we are invited to the beauty of repentance.

And as our child watches their mama’s heart broken over sin, yet walking in the grace of forgiveness, it’s in those moments that we are leaving a legacy of dependence on the Lord.

May our brokenness become the invitation for our children to see our desperate need for a Savior. May our repentance replace perfection, as we walk in the light of what Jesus has paid in full. And may this truth lead our children to not seek perfection, but rather to behold the power of the cross. 🕊️

The other day, after a few hard days of motherhood

The other day, after a few hard days of motherhood, this sweet boy plopped himself on my lap, sang me our song and then asked me if someday I would dance with him to his song on his wedding day. 🕊️🥹🌱

In the midst of a growing season, of pressing into the Lord in motherhood, surrendering my flesh to the strength of Jesus to pour out all of who I want to be as a mama, this moment reminded me of the legacy we are building with our children in the ordinary rhythms of our days.

It reminded me that the words we sing or speak over our children really do matter and sink deep into their souls, that the soil of their little hearts are receiving all the tiny seeds we plant, even though so often we have not yet seen all that is sprouting up our of the ground.

It reminded me that our eyes can so easily fix upon the hard things of motherhood, that we miss the beauty and goodness, in the midst of the hard, and that our children are growing in the grace of Jesus, right alongside our growing hearts as mamas.

These rhythms that are woven into the dailyness our children’s lives now, of intention, love and connection, even when we’re weary, warn our and with nothing left to give, will bear the most beautiful fruit of those same rhythms that will be passed down through generations to come.

And one day I pray he remembers the songs I sang over him, the words of encouragement that poured of my lips, the truths about God heart and characters that I declared over him and the way I embraced him in his hardest and most messy of days…and that all along, we were building a legacy of love that will someday serve as a beautiful soft place to land.

May this be an encouragement to keep going, keep planting those tiny seeds, keep pressing into those daily rhythms and keep trusting that God cares more than we could ever imagine about all the generations to come.

The ordinary, messy, sanctifying moments of today really do matter more than we know, but what a gift that God invited us to surrender our hearts to him as he shepherds our souls in all that it means to me a mama. 🕊️

Today’s the day, my podcast episode with @moseyo

Today’s the day, my podcast episode with @moseyover is live and I can’t wait to share it with all of you! 🎙️🤍🕊️

On the podcast, we chatted all about the launch of my newest book, “The Magic of Childhood,” but also shared my story about becoming a mama, waiting on the Lord through infertility, miscarriage and adoption, and what it looks like to live out our daily surrender to Jesus and trust him with the dreams on our hearts. 🕊️

Thank you, to my sweet friends, Elyn and Kelsey of the lovely podcast, @moseyover. If you’re looking for a podcast that’s truly all about the raw and beautiful parts of every day life, filled with encouragement, vulnerability and laughter, this podcast is for you! You’ll absolutely love these sweet girls, and every podcast feels like your on a coffee date with your besties!

I also wanted to reshare my podcast episode with lovely Ashley of @wearethehomemakers, as we chatted all about the joys of homemaking, the power of the family table, hospitality, faith and surrender (which seems to be the theme of my walk with Jesus 🕊️) and our legacy as mamas. I’m so grateful for the honor to share my heart for all things home and motherhood, and so thankful that sweet Ashely invited me on the podcast a couple years ago! If you don’t follow @wearethehomemakers, you’ll be beyond blessed by the incredible community of women Ashley has created in this space. 🤍

Thank you all for being here, my prayer is that these episodes would draw your hearts closer to Jesus and share more about my story, as an encouragement to the season of life you are in as a mother, homemaker or follow of Jesus!

So grab your cup of tea and come join us as we chat about all things motherhood, homemaking, dreams, surrender and following Jesus through all the hills and valleys! 🎙️🤍🕊️

The sweetest scenes from Easter Dinner, with homem

The sweetest scenes from Easter Dinner, with homemade lemon pesto truffle ravioli, brown butter carrot cake, spring-inspired sourdough focaccia and a whole bunch of family we love. 🌱

As we stood there in church, hands raised to heave

As we stood there in church, hands raised to heaven, singing over and over “All Hail King Jesus,” tears streamed down my face as the the reality of the most radical love story ever written sunk into the depths of my soul.

The risen Savior has made a way for our hearts forever and he’s asked nothing of us, literally nothing, not our perfection, not our good works, not our striving, not a single thing…only our surrender to receive his invitation to the love story that will last for all of eternity.

There’s not enough breath in my lungs or praise that could fall of my lips to worship him enough, he wants us just as we are, messy, broken, doubting and without hope, the very contents of our hearts as we are right now, he came to rescue us into his perfect love.

He says “come as you are,” to the one who is weary with nothing left to give. He says “come as you are,” to the one who so messy and broken, living in the depths of sin and shame. He says “come as you are,” to the one who is doubting and lacking in hope.

The promise of Easter Sunday is our spiritual reality when we trust in Jesus, for our whole life, he is redeeming and resurrecting everything, and all he asks of us is to receive the riches of his glorious grace, as we respond to the love of a Savior who paid the price for all of eternity.

Thank you, Jesus, what radical love is this. I pray that over my heart and yours, this wouldn’t just be a story that we celebrate on Easter, but that the cross would change every moment of our every days, as we receive his invitation over and over again, to come, just as we are and let his grace steep into every fiber of our hearts, what love is this. Thank you that we have the promise of everlasting life, forevermore!!! 🕊️🤍🌸

A reminder for you, dear mama. 🕊️ Mama, I wo

A reminder for you, dear mama. 🕊️

Mama, I wonder if you need to hear this…you’re doing a really good job.

God never expected your perfection, he simply asked for your presence.

He asked that you would show up to this holy call of motherhood and let him do the work.

Because it’s the showing up that matters, even when you don’t have all the answers and when you feel like you have nothing left to give.

All he’s asking is that you would say “yes,” yes to faithfulness in the every day, yes to joy in the mundane and yes to following him, no matter the cost.

The truth is, he really does love you more than you could ever imagine and he created you to be a mama.

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