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Elisabeth Elliot emphasizes why it’s hard to capture thoughts: “The taking of captives is not a gentle business. They don’t want to come.”[2] In other words, we have to expect a fight as we change our thought patterns. We need to show up dressed for battle, not with our yoga pants around our ankles.
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Valerie Woerner (Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday: Say Goodbye to Stressed, Tired, and Anxious, and Say Hello to Renewed Joy in Motherhood)
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It’s hard to overstate how important it is to remember who this God is whom we serve. He is holy. Though we might imagine what God will do with our everyday mothering ministry, God is the one who tests our hearts (1 Thess. 2:4). Missionary and speaker Elisabeth Elliot said in her testimony at Urbana, “Obedience is our task. The results of that obedience are God’s and God’s alone.”9 And so we make glad-hearted, faithful stewardship our aim in all our nurturing work.
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Gloria Furman (Missional Motherhood: The Everyday Ministry of Motherhood in the Grand Plan of God (The Gospel Coalition))