“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3

It can be a painful process to open ourselves up to healing our deep wounds. In fact, it can feel like an insurmountable task to love and tend to the needs of the little souls in our homes while we are knee-deep in our healing journey.  And yet, there is an unearthly joy that we may receive by meeting Christ in these very intimate and raw places.  So how do we love through our wounds?

This week I welcome back speaker, author, and my dear friend Dr. Bob Schuchts.  Bob sheds light on how tending to the wounds within is one of the best ways in which we can love our children.

“Like a master sculptor shaping us into new creations through the blows that come with each spilled cup, every lost hour of sleep, and all that laundry, God is giving us the ultimate makeover. Motherhood is not merely a quick phase to endure until we “can have our life back,” but a much deeper gift. It is a divine makeover, forming us for eternity.” ~ Carrie Gress

This week I chat with the lovely Carrie Gress of Theology of Home about Motherhood as God’s design for a divine transformation. We discuss Carrie’s book The Ultimate Makeover, God’s calling on the maternal heart, and the sanctifying beauty of the vocation of leading little souls back to Him.

You guys!!! Here we are at episode 100. I am so honored and humbled that God thought I could be worthy of journeying alongside each of you. 

This week we talk about an important truth – the truth that MOTHERHOOD IS HEROIC!

The venerable Fulton Sheen so profoundly said: “It is well known that women are capable of far more sustained sacrifice than men; a man may be a hero in a crisis, and then slip back to mediocrity. He lacks the moral endurance which enables a woman to be heroic through the years, months, days and even seconds of her life, when the very repetitive monotony of her tasks wears down the spirit. Not only a woman’s days, but her nights- not only her mind, but her body must share in the Calvary of motherhood. That is why women have a surer understanding of the doctrine of redemption than men have: they have come to associate the risk of death with life in childbirth, and to understand the sacrifice of self to another through the many months preceding it.”

I pray this quote and this episode breathe life into your beautiful and heroic motherhood heart!

Are you weary? Do you feel like your efforts to mother well, wife well, friend well or love well are a lost effort? When we are deep in the trenches of motherhood, wifehood, and life we frequently cannot see the fruit of all of our work. It can feel overwhelming when our days and weeks of disciplining and training up our children run into each other with little realization of the beauty that takes place in our home. 

God tells us in Luke 21:19 that “By your perseverance, you will secure your lives!” But do we believe it? The enemy can be utterly relentless in his efforts to trick us into believing our efforts are lost in vain. Yet, it is little by little that we move forward in progress and love. This week, I pray that we can all trust enough that we persevere through the difficult and the hard, so we may have the grace and joy of recognizing the beauty and fruit which God plans to bring forth from all of the Yeses we say to the work He has laid out before us. 

Hey friends! This week, we discuss something that has been life-giving in my life. Spending time cultivating rhythm and order may seem silly at first glance, but I have found over the years that family rhythms can be a real source of life for our hearts and souls. St. Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 14:40 that “all things should be done decently and in order.” This is a good reminder to us all, that whether regarding the interior life  or the home life, all things should be done decently and with order. 

In this episode, I discuss some of my own experiences and family rhythms that have produced a great deal of fruit in our home.  I have come to realize that we can instill a sense of honor and contribution into the hearts of our children by shepherding them to learn how to take part in family chores and rhythms.  As Helen Keller said, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much!”

Yet, even with rhythms and order, it isn’t always easy to look beyond the daily clutter and chaos that family life can often bring.  So if you find your heart becoming unsettled with the  mess of daily life, look to  Proverbs 14:4 to remind your weary heart that, “Where no oxen are, the barn is clean.” In this season of motherhood, I will take messy stalls over empty ones any day!  Therefore, while there are still little oxen running around our homes, we may just need to surrender our hearts to the mess they may just create in the barn.

Hope you all have a blessed week!

Blessings friends!

I am so excited to share this conversation with you all. I had the chance to sit down with my dear friend, and author Dr. Bob Schuchts on the fundamental truth that we all need healing. 

Dr. Bob is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center, and is a nationally renowned speaker. Bob is the author of Be Healed: Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life, and Be Transformed: The Healing Power of the Sacraments. 

His beautiful wisdom into the human soul and the importance of healing for all of us is profound. We often believe the lie that only people who have experienced outward “trauma” need to look at and address healing. However, Dr. Bob and his team do a beautiful job of shedding light on the fact that living in a sinful world has guaranteed that we have all been wounded and are all in need of deeper healing. 

This is an invitation to go deep with Dr. Bob and to prayerfully consider whether or not our Lord is inviting you to greater healing, just as he healed the crippled man who lay by the healing waters in Bethesda for 38 years. 

As Sr. Miriam James Heidland often says “Wounds that aren’t transformed are transmitted!” Mic drop, and powerful, yet on the flip side there is beauty and hope knowing that the “wounds that are transformed and healed then lead to healing that is transmitted!”

Blessings friends!