We heard from nearly 10,000 moms on the trials and triumphs of Christian motherhood today.

Establishing a personal mission for our family can help us make God-glorifying decisions and resist the pull of an ungodly culture.

More than all the right words or teaching tools, we help our kids learn to pray by modeling it ourselves.

In a world full of dizzying options and opinions, Luke 10 reminds us that Christ alone is our one necessity.

As we teach our kids to graciously accept our “yes” and “no,” we can also train our own hearts to see God’s goodness in everything he ordains for us.

Prayer connects us to the grace-giving, all-sustaining presence of God, even in the most mundane moments of motherhood.

The very traits in our children that frustrate us, can be shaped by the Lord to become strengths for his glory.

Motherhood isn’t just about training up our children. It’s about God training us as his children to look to Christ and to look like Christ.

We changed diapers, made afterschool snacks, and ran errands. But did we finish anything that truly mattered?

Let’s face it—we want everything to go well so we look amazing. But this Christmas, it’s not about being the queen of our kingdom, it’s about worshipping the true King.

Yesterday, my husband said, ‘You’re going to be a good mom.’

I was making up bunk beds with the new bedding I’d agonized over for weeks. ‘Can dots be gender-neutral?’ ‘What if they’re scared of jungle animals?’ ‘Do girls like blue?’ He knew I needed to hear it.

I’m a soon-to-be foster mom who’s admittedly unfit for the task. I can count the number of diaper changes I’ve completed on one hand. I’m too young to parent a teenager. I’m not good at pretending or diffusing tantrums. I know nothing about the trauma. I don’t usually say the right thing.

I’m unprepared and unqualified, but the Lord called me anyway.

God called Jeremiah to be one of the great prophets, faithfully serving for forty years in the face of great persecution in a society that lived in complete moral failure. Jeremiah almost said, ‘No.’

He really was just a boy with no resume to support this appointment to prophet. He faced a nation overcome by apostasy—a calling that included great physical abuse and imprisonment. Jeremiah was a boy unprepared and unqualified for the task, but the Lord called him anyway.

God promised that he would give Jeremiah the words to speak, and he would be with him as his deliverer when the nation of Israel turned against him. He was a man who spoke with the words of God.

We sometimes forget we’re living every day with the power of the Holy Spirit inside of us. While the rest of the world tries to face marriage, careers, social injustice, and motherhood on their own, believers are filled with the spirit of the living God. We’re not enough, but our God is more than enough.

Motherhood is a huge calling, in whatever way you face it. Whether you’re navigating the teenage years, struggling in pregnancy, filling out state-mandated paperwork, or in the weeds of waiting, the Lord goes before you to help you accomplish the tasks to which he appoints you.

Even when you feel unprepared and unfit, even when you are unprepared and unfit, the Spirit of God can use you to accomplish his good plans.

First things first: Follow well, lead well.