Motherhood, Grace, and the Stories We Don’t Always Tell

Mother’s Day is often presented as simple: flowers, cards, brunch, sweet posts, and celebration. But for many women, Mother’s Day brings grief, longing, estrangement, regret, complicated family history, or the ache of someone missing from the table.In this episode of Grit and Grace Podcast with Tonya Bruton, we talk honestly about the complexity of motherhood and the grace of God in the unfinished places.Tonya reflects on the pressure many women feel to live up to the image of the “perfect mother” or the perfect Christian woman, including the way Proverbs 31 has sometimes been used as a measuring stick instead of encouragement. She also talks about mother wounds, forgiveness, boundaries, estranged adult children, mothers separated from their children, grief, miscarriage, infertility, grandmothers, aunties, spiritual mothers, and the God who comforts what family could not fully reach.The heart of this conversation is simple:Mothers do not just need applause.Mothers need grace.Companion blog: www.tonyabruton.com/blogPrayer requests and connection: www.tonyabruton.comStory submissions: [email protected]