If you’ve ever laid your head down at night wondering, “Am I even doing this right?”—this episode is for you.
This week on The Love Offering Podcast, I’m joined by fellow mom and friend Hallie Dye, author of You’re Still a Good Mom. In a world that glorifies perfection and filters out the mess, Hallie offers us something far more meaningful: grace.
Together, we talk about surrendering our motherhood to the One who never fails—even when we often do. Hallie shares how her journey of raising kids revealed her weaknesses, but also led her to a deeper understanding of God’s strength.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the pressure to be a flawless parent, or if your own expectations have left you discouraged, I hope this conversation lifts that weight and replaces it with truth, compassion, and hope.
💛 You are still a good mom.
💛 God’s grace is greater than your failures.
💛 Faithfulness—not perfection—is the goal.
Tune in and be reminded that God sees you, He’s with you, and He’s proud of the way you keep showing up.
🎧 Listen now to the episode with Hallie Dye
With love,
Rachael
Summary
In this episode of the Love Offering Podcast, host Rachael Adams speaks with Hallie Dye about the challenges and expectations of motherhood. Hallie shares her personal journey and the inspiration behind her book, ‘You’re Still a Good Mom.’ The conversation delves into the feelings of failure many mothers experience, the importance of surrendering control, and the foundational role of identity in Christ. They discuss the need for grace and repentance in motherhood, the significance of faithfulness, and how biblical love is exemplified in the story of Martha and Mary. The episode concludes with a heartfelt prayer and encouragement for mothers to embrace their worth in Christ.
Takeaways
- Motherhood can feel all-consuming, but it’s important to recognize our worth beyond it.
- Expectations of perfection in motherhood often lead to feelings of failure.
- Surrendering control is essential for peace in parenting.
- Our identity in Christ is foundational to being a good mom.
- Grace is necessary when we fail, and compassion is needed when we feel.
- We need to acknowledge our feelings without shame.
- The outcome of our parenting is ultimately in God’s hands.
- Repentance is a part of being a good mom, not a sign of failure.
- Moms should preach the gospel to themselves regularly.
- Jesus sees and values all the work we do as mothers.
Sound Bites
- “Grace is needed when we fail.”
- “Two things can be true at one time.”
- “The outcome is always His.”
- “A good mom is not one that never fails.”
- “We need to preach the gospel to ourselves.”
- “I see every single thing you do.”
- “You’re still a good mom, even if you rest.”
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Love Offering Podcast
01:28 Hallie Dye’s Motherhood Journey
05:02 Dismantling Faulty Expectations in Motherhood
11:05 Navigating Control and Surrender in Parenting
16:18 Identity in Christ as the Foundation of Motherhood
19:10 Repentance and Grace in Motherhood
24:06 Faithfulness and Surrender in Parenting
27:56 Biblical Love and the Story of Martha and Mary
32:08 Closing Thoughts and Prayer
Transcript
Rachael Adams (00:01.908)
Welcome to the Love Offering Podcast. I’m your host, Rachel Adams, author of Everyday Prayers for Love, learning to love God, others, and even yourself. Each week we dive into meaningful conversations about how to live out the greatest commandment, living God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Whether through inspiring stories, practical tips, or biblical truths, I hope to encourage you to love boldly, live faithfully, and reflect God’s love in your everyday life.
My guest today is Hallie Dye. Hallie is an author, speaker and the host of the Salt Works podcast. She is passionate about encouraging members of the church to run the race set before them no matter their calling or walk in life. She is the author of You’re Still a Good Mom, Motherhood Surrendered to the One Who Never Fails, Even When You Feel Like You Have. Hallie lives in Monroe, Louisiana with her husband Andrew and their three kids.
She loves podcasts, fiction novels, Louisiana soul food, interiors and fashion, but her absolute favorite thing is spending time with her family and friends. In her book, Callie invites us to surrender our motherhood to the one who never fails. Even though we often feel like we do, she speaks directly to the weary mom, trying to live up to the impossible expectations and offers truth, grace, and real hope that in Christ, you’re still a good mom.
Well, hello Hallie and welcome to the Love Offering podcast. I’m so happy to have you with us today.
Hallie (01:28.44)
Thank so much for having me, Rachel. I’m so excited to be here.
Rachael Adams (01:31.872)
So to begin, I’d love you just to share a little bit about your own motherhood journey and what led you to write this book. You’re Still a Good Mom, which is a message I so need to hear today.
Hallie (01:44.11)
Well, I’ve had a lot of transitions in the last decade. My oldest is, will be 10 in a few months. so, but for the majority of that, I’ve been a stay at home mom, which is an absolute privilege that a lot of moms don’t have. And I recognize that, but there’s also a weightiness. And I think sometimes it may be a possibility to kind of idolize motherhood there when it feels like it’s the only thing I’m doing, you know, which isn’t true. That’s never really true. But I think in some seasons it feels very all-consuming, especially when they’re so little. And so there was a lot of that for me. But really where the book was born, I think in 2020, before the world closed down, before all of that was a thing, I’ve always liked to write. I’ve always liked to teach and spend time with people diving into God’s Word. But I really kind of started to think for some reason, you know, I look back and understand why now, but started to think, you I wanted to take writing a little bit more seriously, you know, maybe take some writing courses and make a blog a little bit, you know, more regular or whatever I intended to do, I don’t really know. And so, but one particular night after the world had closed down and our kids were four, I don’t know if two or three, depending on birthday, and one, so very little and we were in shelter in place and just a hard season having those ages at home and then you can’t go anywhere and you can’t really see anyone, which was our experience here where we are and took about 12 walks a day, you know, in the neighborhood doing what you could do. And it was just one of those days where my husband was able to go back to work, but I’m home and there wasn’t a whole lot we could do. Already just kind of a confining season and then add that on top of it. And there was a night that I sat down on my bed and opened up the notes app on my phone and just started writing to the mom that might feel the way I felt that day. And I remember thinking at the end of it, and that wasn’t super uncommon for me to just kind of journal something, you know, but I remember thinking at the end of this, you know, this could be the beginning of a book, which is so funny that I even thought that because I, that was not really a conscious thought and I really didn’t know where it would go. But it actually is. It became the intro to my book that’s been edited and beat up many times. But it really, the heart of that letter is to introduce the book speaking directly to this mom that feels unseen, that feels that is believing a lot of lies in motherhood and maybe doesn’t know there can be a way to find freedom in motherhood and in that surrender.
Rachael Adams (04:37.494)
Well, I know I have been that mom in that season and in so many other seasons. And so I’m excited to continue this conversation, but we’re going to take a brief break to hear a word from today’s sponsor. And when we come back, we will talk about why moms feel like they’re failing and how we can shift our expectations and redefine what it really looks like to be a good mom.
Rachael Adams (05:02.258)
Welcome back Hallie in your book you beautifully dismantled the faulty expectations we often carry as moms. So why do you think so many of us struggle with feelings of failure and what is the danger of chasing perfection?
Hallie (05:15.598)
There’s a lot here because perfection looks differently to every person. Like a lot of people like if I can just be the fun mom, if I can just be the strong mom, if I can just be you know the patient mom, whatever that looks like in your head. There’s a lot of different ways that we gather these expectations for ourselves. Some are spoken, some are unspoken. Some we place on ourselves, some just came from scrolling on social media you know but the root of it is, is we don’t really know what we were asked to do. That we don’t really know what is a good mom. And when we don’t know that, it does feel chaotic and it does feel like, well, I need to just strive and perform in order to feel like I’m good enough. I think what we find though, when we take these expectations to the gospel is, there’s a lot less required of us than we actually realize. And surrendering looks scary because it does require relinquishing control, which we don’t love. But once we’ve made that jump, it actually looks a lot less like striving, a lot more like resting in Him and who He is and His good plans for us and our families. And so I think a lot of times with those expectations, it’s simply we don’t know what the expectation is biblically. And so we just fill it in with all these other things in the world.
I think one thing, Rachel, and I don’t know if you can relate to this is a lot of times we have conversations about motherhood of what it looks like having the perfect Pinterest house, know, being the crafty mom, being the fun mom, whatever that looks like. But I don’t think that sometimes we stop and pause and think about how we expect ourselves to feel. And I think sometimes that low simmer of mom guilt can be well, I subconsciously assume that everyone is enjoying and loving every part of this and I feel a way that I’m not. And there can be some shame about the way that we feel. And there’s a whole chapter about that in the book because it was something I really had to dismantle and I’ll probably wrestle with forever in different ways of, you know, we need the compassion of Christ on those things. We need to be able to accept that compassion of if he were sitting there with you, he would be able to say, this is hard. And so we have to be able to acknowledge that in our own lives. It doesn’t mean we’re not grateful because two things can be true at one time. But what I’ve found is grace is needed when we fail, but compassion is needed when we feel. And so I think there are a lot of components, but I think that’s a big one that we don’t always acknowledge.
Rachael Adams (07:58.794)
Yeah, there’s I don’t know who to attribute this quote to, it’s there’s this distance between our reality and our expectation is in between that is our disappointment. We’re disappointed because our reality and our expectation, they’re not matching. And I don’t know how many times my husband has said, like, who told you that? You know, like, what is it that you have in your head? This romanticized ideal of what it’s supposed to be? Like, where did you even get that information from? And I don’t know. I never know how to respond to that. So I don’t know if it’s social media. I don’t know if it’s books or movies, or if it’s the enemy lying to me, you know, like, but I think so many of us do deal with this issue of like, where, where does this ideal of what a good mom come from?
Hallie (08:50.01)
I think I love that your husband asked you that question because it reminds me so much of the question that God asks after the fall. But before he’s doled out consequences, and one of the things we talk about in the book is the mom guilt that we have over lack and limitation and how there’s a chapter about lack and limitation that’s like, hey, you’re not perfect and you’re not unlimited attributes of God that we can’t chase because we were never meant to have those. And that was designed because we’re made to be dependent on Him. And then there’s a chapter that’s about when we do fail, when we actually do have a failure, how do we navigate that in motherhood and repentance and repair? But I tried to write that failure into the Lack and Limitation so much because we connect those two and we don’t really realize that we’re doing that. But in chapter three of Genesis, when they have eaten the forbidden fruit and they’re hiding in shame. And God says, where are you? And Adam says, we heard the sound of you walking in the garden, which is crazy. And he says, and we hid because we’re naked. And what’s so interesting is when God created everything, this was good and this was good and this was good. But when he created male and female, he said, this is very good. And they were in their state of unclothed. Like they were in that state when he deemed them very good in their lack. But once they’d experienced shame, that’s when they noticed their lack and limitation. I think a lot of times that’s when we do come into being limited when we failed and we’ve tried to live outside of those boundaries. The issue was not that Eve wanted to be more like God. The issue was that she wanted to be more God-like. She wanted to gain these attributes. And God’s first response to them, which I had never really noticed before writing about this was, Who told you that you were naked? Which is so interesting because they did rightly have remorse over the wrongdoing, but they also had a lot of shame about their state of unclothed, which he handles. But it’s so interesting because that’s where they attach their shame to is their lack. And I think we do that a lot in motherhood.
Rachael Adams (11:05.031)
Absolutely. You know, before we hit record, I was telling you that this topic specifically really hits home for me because my children are 16 and 14 and when they were little, I could control what they were eating, what they were watching when they went to bed, when they took a bath, what they were wearing, where we went. Like, you know, I could control everything or at least I thought in which you, told me that, which was good. It was good. It was a good comment and I received it. but now that they’re older. It’s, mean, I’d really, you know, they eat at school. whatever the, whatever the cafeteria is feeding them, I don’t know what they’re listening to, who’s around them. you know, a lot of the decisions they’re making is I guide them and I try to mentor and teach and pour into them best I can. But at the end of the day, they’re starting to make these decisions for themselves. And the Lord is really working on my heart in this area of, of surrender which is really difficult, I think as a mom, surrendering your children to him and his will, even though we know it’s what’s best for them is difficult. And so I don’t know, does that evoke any thought in you?
Hallie (12:15.958)
Yeah, it does. It reminds me of the last chapter in the book. It was kind of a late edition, actually. But it really kind of came because I was having conversations with moms who were older and had older kids, some of them grown and had kids of their own. And I actually had a lot of feedback from older readers who felt I didn’t anticipate that because I don’t have that experience, you know, but because it addresses your worth as a mom and the biblical, the gospel truth.
It really can speak those truths to anyone. I actually had someone recently say, I’m getting my husband to read it. And I was like, I didn’t expect that. And so it’s, you know, the Lord will do some crazy things, but all that to say, I think sometimes those questions can be even more haunting of was I good, mom, because it’s this retrospective, I can’t go back and change it. And so sometimes I think that doubt can be even more crippling but these truths are still the same. But that last chapter, I’ve had a mom come up to me at an event and share a situation with me and I was like, start in chapter 12. Because it talks about the talents, the parable of the talents and how this servant was allotted this amount, this servant was allotted this, and the third was a smaller portion. That smaller portion was still this astronomical, expense that he was given, but we see that the first did this to get their return, and then we’re not given how the second was. We’re not given any directions that the Master gives before he leaves, and we see like in the nature of God, he’s not a micromanager. He’s not like, do it this way exactly, but the issue was the third one did nothing, and there’s a lot of misunderstanding of the nature of the Master because he says, well, I know you are I knew you were a harsh man and I knew this and I’ve always struggled with that. I’ve always been like, what does that mean? Because you don’t see that in the master. And I said that one time to my husband, Andrew, and he was like, well, I think that’s kind of the point is the servant actually doesn’t really know the character of the master because he would have been happy with any effort, you know? And I think that in so many areas of life, you can study enough or you can work enough to hone a skill or get the grade or the outcome.
But with our Christian walk and this extends into parenting you don’t get to control the outcome and You’re so right like and when they’re younger you do actually get to do that some because there’s consequences and I’m bigger than you I you know like I can pick you up even if you don’t want to go and All of those things and you can’t make your own food. So you do have to eat what I put in front of you or whatever but as they get older that illusion of control just completely goes away. But I think what we need to hear is the outcome was never ours. The outcome is always His. And the only thing we have control of is our input. And our input as Christians is our faithfulness. And He holds the rest. And while that seems scary, there’s also a lot of rest in that and assurance. And so for people with older kids, I mean, I’m not there yet. I need that book. But yes, sometimes they are going to make decisions. They will make decisions that you don’t like because I make decisions I don’t like sometimes. And they might choose things that you never wanted them to choose. And why should that mean you’re not a good mom? Because our kids can’t be our measuring stick. Our measuring is our faithfulness to our good God.
Rachael Adams (16:02.214)
Goodness, this is is such a good conversation. I can’t wait to continue it. But we’re going to take a brief break to hear a word from today’s sponsor. And when we come back, we’re going to talk about how we can keep our identity in Christ to make sure that’s the foundation of good motherhood.
Welcome back. are talking with Hallie Dye and so Hallie in your book you remind us that the identity that our identity in Christ is the foundation of good motherhood. So why is that truth so important when we feel like we are not measuring up?
Hallie (16:33.806)
Hmm. I mean, it is, like you said, it is absolutely foundational because so much of our struggle with being a good mom, again, like we said in the beginning, is our expectations of what that looks like. But a lot of it can be our misunderstanding of our worth. And so, for instance, if you have a mom who’s really struggling, me, with rest or learning to pause and play and you know, enjoy a hobby with your kids or without your kids, whatever that looks like. And there’s actually chapters about each of those in the book. When we struggle with those things, we can think, why is it so hard for me just to rest? Why is it so hard for me to just pause and play, you know, to sit down and be present or whatever? Well, there are a lot of those expectations of becoming a mom who’s surrender is uprooting idols. And if your idol is work, and tasks and you think your worth is found in what you can do, which is a lot of us and our striving and our performing in whatever area that can be your vocational work, that can be your parenting, whatever that looks like, then you are going to really struggle to pause because if my worth is in what I do and I’m not doing anything and I cease, then I feel worthless.
But if we realize that the gospel truth says, is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And when he said, this is my son and whom I’m well pleased and I now have his righteousness covering me, clothing me, like we talked about, he covers us and he covers our shame, then he’s well pleased with me before I even begin my work as a mom. And that completely changes the way that we mother because, wow, now I can enjoy it, now I can be free. I mean that gives me chill bumps. makes me want to cry for the mom who needs to hear, myself included. That’s where you begin your work, not what you’re working towards. And that feels vastly different.
Rachael Adams (18:37.514)
That does something for my heart today. Honestly, I needed to hear that my I struggle with that in that area so much as the listeners know and so what freedom and what rest that does for me. So thank you for sharing that on a personal level. And so let’s continue to talk to that mom who maybe is feeling like us who feels really depleted really discouraged or ashamed of the ways that she has fallen short. What would you say to her right now?
Hallie (19:10.188)
You know, I think about David and how he is the only one in scripture that we see called a man after God’s own heart. And yet we see some huge moral failures in his story. mean, adultery, murder, a misuse of power in all of those things. And we can go, well, how can that be? And it’s because his repentance was truly for the Lord. Yes, he fell short, but his repentance was truly for the Lord. But what we also see in scripture is he was anointed and appointed to shepherd those people, even though God is outside of time and knew how it would play out. He knew. And I think that sometimes we need to hear even in David’s moral failure, he was anointed and appointed to shepherd those people. Now, he rightly repaired that. He repented with the Lord first, and then he repaired that. And I think we need to see that because I think sometimes with motherhood, what feels so bad is it doesn’t just affect me. It affects these people who depend on me, who are weaker than me, who I mean, I have to take care of them, and they look to me for all of this leadership.
How could I lose my cool and raise my voice? What kind of mom does XYZ? And we just spiral into that shame. But knowing that we can approach the Lord, His throne of grace and mercy in our time of need, changes everything. Because then you can go back and say, okay Lord, your gospel says this. Your gospel says this is my worth. Not the action I did today.
God, I’m sorry that I raised my voice, I, X, Y, Z, whatever that situation is. I know that is not what you want. Can you help me to be the mom you want me to be? Not in my own power, but in yours, turning back to that surrender. Because a good mom is not one that never fails. It’s a woman who turns back over and over as many times as she needs. And I think a lot of that is learning to preach the gospel to yourself.
Hallie (21:32.462)
Do you know how to speak? When we say speak truth into your own heart from the verse in Psalms, I think it’s Psalms 15, yes that means speaking things that are convicting, but also means speaking grace. Are you able to speak that to yourself? And if not, why? Do you not believe those truths extend to you? Because if you don’t, here’s the outcome. If I can’t repent, and go, okay, that does not uproot my worth and everything about me and my identity when I do fail and when I do fall short. Then my kids get to see that. And when I say, hey, I’m sorry, that is not how we talk in our home. Will you forgive me? And they learn that. Then they see a mom not melt down and lose her worth because they don’t need to see a mom that’s perfect. Guess what? They’re not either. They need to see a mom who truly believes she’s unconditionally loved even when she has failed. Because maybe they can also memorize that same path to the throne of grace and mercy in their time of need. And so how beautiful that even in our failures, he actually can use that too.
Rachael Adams (23:00)
I’m just thinking as you’re talking about, like this isn’t just, you’re still a good mom, you’re still a good daughter, you’re still a good friend, you’re still a good wife, you’re still a good woman. know, like there’s so much of this pressure to be perfect, this pressure to do everything perfectly for a lack of a better word. And I think that what you’re saying is so freeing and so grounding and so foundational. And I’m so thankful for the truth that you are giving us today. And so I know it’s done such a work in my own heart and we want to continue to be faithful. And so what does that look like? So how does how does God define faithfulness and motherhood? And how is that different from the messages that we’re hearing in the world?
Hallie (24:05.326)
Well, I think about this, this has kind of become my go-to answer when people say, what does surrender look like or how do you define a good mom? And this is kind of what I’ve thought because I was, at the time I was kind of like getting together the book proposal. I was also speaking at an event with some college students. It was a small gathering and I was like, you know, we’re gonna talk about abiding we’re going to talk about really staying rooted in the word and we’re going to talk about abiding and we’re going to sit there and John and go through that. I’m going to teach these college students how to abide. And I wrestled with that topic and kind of realized ironically that let’s say I tried to teach you how to abide and I said, okay, Rachel, step one, this step to this step three, this and we could do it. You know, it was achievable and we could do that.
Have I really taught the essence of abiding in Him? Have I really taught the true meaning of remaining in Him? No, I’ve taken some good biblical principles and I’ve really made it match up with self-sufficiency. And so it’s hard to define, but the beautiful thing is we don’t have to do the work and the heavy lifting. so surrendering looks like going back to Him once more. Do you want us to do this extracurricular activity?
Do you want us to move to this neighborhood? Do you want us to do public school, private school, homeschool? What do you want for us? And I have learned to pray, especially through the publishing, because you know this, but I didn’t know this. I mean, it’s the Wild West out here going, I could change this and it’s gonna be printed like this forever. know, like it can be paralyzing of what do I put in here? What do I take out? What do I refine? Lord, what do you want me to say? I don’t wanna mess this up.
And I mean, a book is just a big collection of your words. I mean, it’s scary, you know? And so learning to relinquish and surrender in that, I had to learn to pray. A wise woman prayed over me at the beginning of the process. Lord, would you lead, would you guide Halley’s hands in every single facet of this process? And I’m like, yes, of course, because I didn’t come by this idea by myself. I didn’t get this book deal on my own.
Hallie (26:27.938)
I’m not gonna do any part of it on my own. So if I can come back to that truth every moment of every day, that’s gonna change everything. And I’ve begin to pray things like, okay, like we’ve made some really big decisions over the last couple years. Lord, I don’t know what my husband needs. I don’t know what I need. I don’t know what my kids need in the next year, five years, 10 years, but you do. You know what’s in our future and you know what we need. Would you just guide us and stablish our steps in the right direction. And if we begin to walk through a door where this is not going to bring you glory, or it’s just simply not meant for our good, would you just close it? And as I pray that over and over, as crazy as it sounds, there is immense peace that once the door opens and we walk through it, maybe there’s an unforeseen hardship, but I knew that He knew we’d be here and so I can trust him with whatever it is. Okay, you had a plan for this. I know you do. And it isn’t that he’s any more sovereign in my life than he was two years ago. It’s just that I’ve trained my mind and heart to see that every moment of every day. And it really is that easy, even though it’s not always so simple.
Rachael Adams (27:43.318)
Well, you you’ve got such a good biblical knowledge and so I’m excited to hear your answer to this next question. Is there a biblical concept of love that you think applies to this topic today?
Hallie (27:56.536)
I don’t know how people usually answer this, but I thought of like a biblical situation, which is actually in the book. it’s Jesus’s first interaction with Martha because we hear Mary and Martha taught a lot in women’s ministry. And I always feel so defensive of Martha because I’m like, hey, someone does have to cook the dinner, you know? And like someone’s got to get that casserole ready and the table’s not gonna set itself, you know, and like, we can all relate to that in motherhood in a lot of ways because whether you feel like you identify with Mary or Martha, there’s a lot of tasks that fall to you as a mom or parent. But I wanna read this portion if that’s okay. It says, now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. And Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, Lord, do you not care? My sister has left me to serve alone. Tell her then to help me. But the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. And when I used to read that, Rachel, like I would take that admonishing and feel like, my goodness, Jesus chose Mary over Martha and that means he chooses that woman over me. When I felt like he was dressing down her character, I felt like, okay, he’s dressing down mine, but that’s not what happened. When we really look at it, first of all, Jesus is there because Martha invited him, not Mary.
It says a woman named Martha invited her into her house. And if you think about a woman that you know, that is, is always like hospitality is what she breeds and she can cook a mean meal and set a great table, you know, and that is what she’s known for. And she is known for striving and she does it well. I think that when we realize, that Jesus is sitting in our living room, that’s when we’re gonna perform the most. Like when you realize who is, it wasn’t that she didn’t realize, I think it was because she did. And she was like, I’ve got to pull out all the stops, I’ve got to be my absolute best. And it wasn’t that she was serving, it says she was distracted by it. And so when he looks at her and says, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, I feel like, she is so seen in that moment. Like, first of all, the double name, that just implies so much familiarity. Like, this may have been her first time to meet Him, but everything that was created was created through Jesus Christ. She’s looking into the eyes of the person that created her to be Martha, not Mary. And He’s saying, I see all these things that you do. Not one single task is beneath my notice. I see it all. Which is so kind because we feel so unseen in our work a lot of times. But he’s like, I see every single thing, but one thing is necessary. One thing is required. And in this instance, Mary has chosen the good portion. And it wasn’t that he was saying, hey, I wish you’d be more like Mary. He was saying, would you come as Martha, just come as Martha is without trying to strive and perform and add to it. And that just speaks to me. That is such a kindness and such a biblical view of love when I really stop and understand what this passage is saying.
Rachael Adams (31:42.166)
Halle, you have such a gift in the way that you read scripture because how many times have we read that story and that was a new twist on it and a new understanding of it. But I’m in agreement with the way that you are perceiving that interaction. And I think that’s so beautiful and it does make us feel so loved. And so thank you for redeeming a part of her story. I think we’re so hard on her. You’re right. I know that I want to stay connected with you. I’m sure listeners are going to want to. They’re going to want to purchase this book and also listen to your podcast and hear more of your wisdom. So tell us how we can best do that.
Hallie (32:23.544)
Thank you. The book is available online wherever you buy books. So Amazon’s usually the easiest. I don’t know when this airs, but Moody does run a great 50 % off. I think that it’s coming up. So this might air after, but always watch for any Moody books because I think they might do it twice a year. But Barnes & Noble, all of those online places. And as far as the podcast, anywhere you find podcasts where the salt works, we are also on Instagram with reels and updates and things like that. you know, I’ve heard people say I’m embarrassingly easy to find. Instagram, HallieDye, that’s hopefully soon I’ll have a newsletter that I actually keep up with. But for now, you know, that’s kind of what it is.
Rachael Adams (33:11.678)
Well, I will include that all in the show notes. I forget to ask you, is there something that you’re loving right now?
Hallie (33:18.314)
Okay, yesterday I was feeling very burned out, just exhausted and very stretched thin. My husband, they were going to Wednesday night church and we usually there for almost three hours on Wednesday nights because we go for dinner and then class by the time we get home. He was like, hey, why don’t you just stay home tonight? Just stay home because the house will actually be quiet. I usually would have been like, no, I can’t do that because how we do it as moms and women, like that would be failing, you know? And I was like, you know what? I think I will. And I sat on the back porch for that entire, however long it was, and watched the stormy sky over the bayou. And I ate hummus out there and chocolate pie that I found in the fridge. I’m not sure where it came from, but I ate it. I read a nonfiction book and then a fiction book and it was just, I literally teared up just with gratitude for the Lord because he’s so kind to give us that rest when we actually let ourselves. So that is what I’m loving.
Rachael Adams (34:24.886)
I would have loved that too. I love a good chocolate pie and some hummus, some outdoor living and some rest. You’re speaking my language. You have the entire episode. and so I’m just so thankful to connect with you and you know, we’re still a good mom, even if we rest, right? We’re still a good mom, even if I can just see all the, the mantras, like we need to just fill in the blank. You’re still a good mom, even if X, you know, whatever that may be for, for you and listening.
Rachael Adams (34:53.022)
Yeah, so would you do us the honor of praying for us as we close?
Hallie (34:56.664)
Absolutely. Dear God, I just pray for every single listener, Lord, right now that God, that they would just hear not what I have to say, Lord, but what you have to say to them. God, that if you could look them in their eyes, you would start with a double name, Martha Martha. Just that you see us, God, and you are so loving and kind. God, and we thank you for that. We thank you for your sovereignty and your grace and for the things we don’t deserve and for your lavish love on us, But Lord, I just pray that these truths would resonate not as just something in passing, God, but something that actually begins to change the way that we walk. God, would you just lead us to the freedom that you have and show us, God, for those decisions that we’re making in motherhood, for the things that feel so heavy right now. God, would you just help us to know you are with us. You are bearing those burdens, Lord. And that your burden is easy. Your yoke is light. God, we look to you. We praise your name. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Rachael Adams (36:07.107)
Amen. Well, thank you so much, Hallie, for being with us and reminding us that our failures do not define us and that in Christ, we are still good moms.
Hallie (36:16.258)
Thank you so much for having me, Rachel. It’s been such a joy.
Rachael Adams (36:20.288)
Thank you for tuning into the Love Offering Podcast. I hope today’s conversation encouraged and inspired you to love God, love others, and even love yourself a little more. If this episode blessed you, please share it with a friend and leave a review. It helps others discover the show and spreads this message of love even further. To connect with me, visit rachellekadams.com. While you’re there, be sure to download the Love Offering Calendar, a free resource filled with simple daily ways to love those around you. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of my new book, Everyday Prayers for Love, Learning to Love God, Others and Even Yourself, and Halley’s book, You’re Still a Good Mom. It’s available now wherever books are sold and I pray it blesses you in your motherhood and beyond. A special thank you to Life Audio for supporting this podcast and making it possible. To find more great podcasts, visit LifeAudio.com. Thanks again for joining us. Until next time, let’s make our lives an offering of love.
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