As we celebrate all of the wonderful people who mother in any way, I'm bringing you an older episode this week. It's number 72: The Spiritual Practice of Mothering, and I pray it's a blessing to you. Thanks for keeping the world spinning!
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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna
2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org
3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin
4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice
5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary
6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood
7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer
8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio
9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan
10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner
11. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting
12: IG follow: Pamela Henkleman: Coach for Midlife Moms
