#5. You Are Inadequate, But That is Not All
Soothing our inadequacies the wrong way robs us of the very comfort we are trying to find.
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We all want to be good mums and we want to like doing motherhood. The trouble is, it's hard to work out what's good and harder still to be happy about it. This podcast is a long meditation on what Jesus has to say about what's good when we're raising children. It so happens that joy sneaks up on us when we get on with doing it.
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Inadequate Mothers {bonus}
Inadequacy comes in a few shapes and we are complex packages of them. Steps to making sense of our limitations.
#4 God-Centred Duty, the Conduit of Love
How duty is actually a way God distributes love to particular people through their particular relationships. The asymmetry of motherhood needs a source outside ourselves.
Giving Children What They Want {bonus}
Doing what is good for our kids is not the same as giving them what they want.
#3 Duty Devouring Motherhood
Like all good things, used the wrong way, duty devours us. In this episode, we're recalibrating our ideas about duty.
#2 The Light and Duty in Light Duties
Defining our terms for Christian motherhood.
Bonus: Growing Our Own Teeth
No one else can do our growing for us.
#1 Before We Begin
A little of the back story behind the Light Duties project. This is the audio version of an article from the Light Duties site.
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Light Duties Episode 0
Welcome to the Light Duties podcast. This is where the audio version of the articles from the Light Duties website. It's a long thought on Christian motherhood, one article at a time.