When loss and grief intersect with our motherhood, we have the privilege of showing our kids that Jesus “is the safest and surest place to run.”

While we can subsist on snacks for a while, our bodies—and our souls—need well-rounded, nourishing meals in order to thrive.

Like any major transition, the letting-go years of motherhood are an opportunity to fix our identity in Christ, live for his glory, and continue investing in the work before us.

Through the ever-changing high school years, we can model to our teens a faith that is imperfect, yet dependent on a perfect Savior.

In the turning point of the middle school years, we can bring all our fears to the Lord and prayerfully depend on him in new and deeper ways.

Through the elementary years—“the time between”—we can learn to trust God for future fruit in our kids’ lives as we faithfully endure the mundane.

In the exhaustion of the little years, we can learn alongside our children how to play and delight in God’s world and how to rest.

Prayer is God’s means of reminding tired, overwhelmed moms that we aren’t ultimately in control of our lives or our kids—but we can depend on him.

When we or our kids face nightmares in the dark, we can remember the gospel by turning these scary stories into glorious tales of triumph.

God uses the things we never wanted or saw coming—like long seasons of sickness with our kids—to powerfully show us his love and grow our dependence on him.

A mom to many, Amy Carmichael exemplified trust in Scripture’s sufficiency and a commitment to ordinary obedience—values we can apply today to our own motherhood.

We can use a myriad of tangible objects, experiences, and family rhythms to pass along to our kids the stories of God’s work in our lives—even from before they were born.