RE-RELEASE: 146: Success in Motherhood (Lies Moms Believe Series #8) with Rebekah Hargraves (Solo Episode #22)

 

Today’s solo podcast episode is a re-release of an episode from my podcast series based on my book, Lies Moms Believe (And How the Gospel Refutes Them) with a chat all about what success in motherhood looks like, what it is, and what it isn’t.  I hope you walk away from today’s conversation feeling encouraged.

What I Chat about in Today’s Episode:

~The next 2 lies covered in my book:

21.  My success as a mom is directly tied to how my children turn out.

22. I don’t know what it means to be a mom if I only have one child.

~Why your success as a mom is not tied to how your children turn out

~What your responsibility is as a mom and what is in God’s hands to do with as He will

~Where your responsibility ends and God’s begins

~God granting the increase

~The harmful effect of the quiverfull movement on our view of moms who have only one child

~Viewing children as blessings

~Embracing our own unique life stories and circumstances

~And more!

Resources Mentioned

Offer for a free audiobook and 30 day trial membership from Audible: www.audibletrial.com/HomeandHearth

Previous Solo Podcast Episodes

QUOTES TO REMEMBER:

“Our children are not little robots able to be controlled. Though we do carry powerful influence, we are powerless to absolutely ensure what kind of adults our children will become. Therefore, our success or failure in motherhood is ultimately not based upon how our children turn out.”

“What we have to understand is that those choices our children make as adults are ultimately on them. They are not on us. We are simply called to be faithful to our responsibility to steward well the hearts of our children, consistently pointing them to the Lord. We are not, however, held responsible for the outcome.”

“If you are training your children up in the way that they should go, you are a good mom. No choice they make later in life can change that.”

“We are not sovereign. We cannot determine the course of human history or turn the hearts of our children in the direction we would like them to go. We are not omnipotent. And that is as it should be. That is a good thing. There is a freedom that comes from knowing we are not held responsible for the outcome. We are only held responsible for the training. That’s it. We are to plant the seed. Whether or not it grows is not our responsibility, nor does the end result make us a good or bad gardener.”

“The mama with one child should not be made to feel as if she doesn’t understand motherhood because she doesn’t have multiple little ones. If she is a mother, she knows what motherhood is like. She knows the struggles, hardships, heartaches, joys, and blessings of motherhood. How? Simply because she is a mother.”

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND REBEKAH ONLINE:

Websites – Hargraves Home and Hearth

Instagram –@rebekahhargraves

Facebook – Hargraves Home and Hearth 

Twitter – @hhomeandhearth

Podcast – Home and Hearth Podcast

 

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