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Does Parenting Make You Happy?

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Of course we all want to be happy! We want blissful family lives, easy relationships, and lots of hugs.

But there's a problem. If we're having kids in order to make us happy, we're likely to be very miserable indeed.

My podcast this week addresses this very problem. I talk about the dangers of our quest for happiness, and remind us that maybe God wants something far deeper for us! Listen in here.

The podcast is based on a longer talk I gave at a MOPS group about what the point is to ou lives. And you can listen to the rest of this talk, too! This month, my complete talk, "Don't Worry, Be Happy?", is available for only $2 as an audio download! Don't miss it!

Labels: hapiness, parenting, podcast

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posted @ 8:16 AM

2 Comments:

At 2:45 PM , kelli said…

this made me think about my motives with my 1st born. there are days when I really struggle with him (it might be because he is a strong willed teen) but I had him very young. I can look at the rest of my dc and know that I am happy to just be there parent. I have joy just watching who God is making them into. thanks for sharing

At 5:03 PM , Mel Menzies said…

Hi Sheila, I made it! Nice site! I gave up on the dust bunnies under the bed many years ago. I had to sign books the main Christian Booksellers Conference in UK back in the eighties, and saw the sign promoting me and my book. I told my friend it made me feel rather a fraud and that I was really only a housewife. 'About time you started seeing yourself as God sees you,' she reprimanded me. 'As a Christian author who gets only a little time for housework.' I haven't looked back since!
Mel Menzies, author of A Painful Post Mortem