Finding Joy in Marriage & Motherhood, Janet Quinlan

As parents, we often live in the immediate - here and now.  But an important part of being a parent is creating goals for our children.  In this episode I discuss three important points (and a bonus point!) for why creating goals for our children is so important in raising them.  
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In our call to marriage and motherhood, there are many contradictions, disappointments, and frustrations that we experience.
If we look at the difficult part of being a wife and mother through a non-Christian lens, then we move into dissatisfaction, disappointment, and overwhelm with our state of life.
But if we see the contradictions through the lens of our Christian faith - through Jesus' words, "take up your cross and follow me", so much of our life that used to cause frustration and anger, now has meaning and purpose.
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This episode is a replay from 2023, but I thought it was especially timely during this season of Lent.
We all judge.  Some more than others.  Those who judge others, are often victims of judging - their own.
We're very good at judging ourselves - of seeing all the ways in which we fail or don't measure up.  We're good at comparing ourselves to other women and quickly seeing where we don't measure up, as opposed to seeing the gifts and talents we have.

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As wives, mothers, friends, and women of the world, a lot is asked of us every day!  But the most important thing we can do every day is to pray for the men in our lives - our husband and our sons especially - that they will have the faith, hope, and love of St. Joseph.  We pray that they will be strong in the face of all the temptations the world has to offer to reject all that is good, beautiful, and True.  
We pray that our husbands have the strength, courage, and humility to live God's will for them every day.
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So often, we think that we "are just who we are".  We don't realize that we can actually decide who we want to be.  
We can decide what kind of moms we want to be, what kind of spouse we want to be, and what kind of friend or employee we want to be.
Whatever our stories or beliefs we had from childhood about ourselves, don't have to continue to define who we are now as adults.
Who DO you want to be?
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