Compassion Parenting Podcast

Motherhood comes in seasons, and as a mom to a large family I experience several seasons simultaneously. I miss the days of the slow steady rocking and the baby on my hip, but still I have a preschooler begging to play cars and a grown son waiting to hear about grad school. There’s so much talk about child development, but what about mother development? It surely goes on too.  I can sense tha...

“Speak to us of Joy and sorrow,” the poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran writes.  “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.  And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. . . . When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful, look again in your...

As any mom, I give up multiple personal opportunities to create opportunities for my children--a truth to which they, at least for now, are quite oblivious. (And to some degree, rightly so; it’s the way of childhood). I have books to write, songs to practice, medical journals to read--I’m practically bursting to do these things--but instead spend mornings in my bathrobe insisting one son does his...

This episode is the first in the series on “Seasons.” Though seasons of life and parenting change, the one constant element--the aspect that we seek to keep fresh and renewed always--is love. Why? Because the wisdom literature states that “Charity (or love) never faileth.” (I Cor 13: 4-8). I don’t know about you, but I’d like a guaranteed strategy! Like all profound yet simple truths, however, it’...