Welcome to episode 034 of Mud Stories!

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Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone.

In today’s episode I’m continuing my conversation with Elizabeth Foss, wife to Mike and mom to nine children–ages six to twenty six–who resides in Northern Virginia with her family.

And if you missed part one of my conversation with Elizabeth,

you can listen to Episode 033 by clicking HERE.

Elizabeth is a homeschooler, knitter, runner, family life columnist and writer for over 20 years, the author of two books, and she blogs regularly about all things at the heart of her home.

Elizabeth finds the charm, wonder, and the cacophony of big family imperfection to be great inspiration as she strives to meet the challenges of daily life with creativity and grace.

In this episode Elizabeth and I discuss:

• How to help adult children through hard things
• How suffering and adversity is a gift that shapes us
• How our compassion and empathy for others grows through suffering

Together we wrestle through:

• How perfectionism is about our need to control
• How God values us just the way we are
• How to show our children grace
• How to transparently show our struggles and failures to our kids

Elizabeth and I talk about:

• Navigating Social Media and how to use it for good
• Guarding our hearts and the temptation to compare and compete with others
• How to nurture friendships that start online
• Burnout recovery
• The difference between burnout and depression
• Details about the Restore Workshop

 Mud Stories 034: God loves you, not for what you do, but just as you are. ~@elizabethfoss [Tweet that]

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SCRIPTURE:

CONNECT with Elizabeth:

Elizabeth’s Website: elizabethfoss.com

Social Media:

Twitter

Facebook

 Instagram

Pinterest

The Restore Workshop:

• Restore Workshop:

Have questions about Restore?

Elizabeth answers FAQ’s HERE

Register for The Restore Workshop HERE

LINKS:

• Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home, by Elizabeth Foss
• Small Steps for Catholic Moms: Your Daily Call to Think, Pray, and Act, by Elizabeth Foss
• Kuykenstrong Foundation
• Article about Shawn Kuykenstrong, by Mike Foss
• Colleen Mitchell’s Blog
• MS Episode 007 Alia Joy: Depression, Desperation, and a Broken Hallelujah
• MS Episode 019 Jess Connolly: Suicide Attempt, Depression, Brokenness, and Feeling ‘Not Enough’
• MS Episode 030 Tara Storch: Living Through Grief and How Good Can Come From Tragic Loss
• Elizabeth DeHority’s Blog
• Amy Grant

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So Glad

Written by, Chris Christian, Brown Bannister, Amy Grant

I had laid some mighty plans

Thought I held them in my hands

Then my world began to crumble all away

I tried to build it back again

I couldn’t bear to see it end

How it hurt to know You wanted it that way

 

Chorus:

And I’m so glad, glad to find the reason

That I’m happy-sad that You’ve torn it all away

And I’m so glad, though it hurts to know I’m leaving

Everything I ever thought that I would be

Once I held it in my hand

It was a kingdom made of sand

But now you’ve blown it all away

I can’t believe that I can say that I’m glad

 

Long before my plans were made

I know a master plan was laid

With a power that superceded my control

And if that truth could pierce my heart

I wouldn’t wander from the start

Trying desperately to make it on my own

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MS 030 Tara Storch: Living Through Grief and How Good Can Come From Tragic Loss MS 046 Colleen Mitchell: Loss and Ongoing Grief MS 052 Michele Cushatt: Undone by Suffering and How to Make Peace with an Unexpected Life