{"id":211,"date":"2010-04-13T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/mainlineportal\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:57:51","slug":"spirituality-for-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithforward\/2010\/04\/spirituality-for-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirituality for Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u201cIn the BK (before kids) era of my life, I was notoriously bad at quiet times. I lacked discipline. And, in the rare periods when I disciplined myself to have a daily quiet time, I quickly found my prayers felt inauthentic. Too often it was more about checking the time-with-God box than actually meeting God. So I dreaded to think what would happen to my already-spotty spiritual disciplines when I had kids!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of Kathy Tuan-MacLean\u2019s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Spiritual-Formation-for-Moms.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all Moms (and Dads for that matter) &#8212; does this sound familiar?:  &#8220;In the BK (before kids) era of my life, I was notoriously bad at quiet times. I lacked discipline. And, in the rare periods when I disciplined myself to have a daily quiet time, I quickly found my prayers felt inauthentic.  So I dreaded to think what would happen to my already-spotty spiritual disciplines when I had kids!&#8221;  Fear not.  Read the rest of Kathy Tuan-MacLean&#8217;s article on the unique ways God meets us in our parenting.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spirituality for Moms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Calling all Moms (and Dads for that matter) -- does this sound familiar?: &quot;In the BK (before kids) era of my life, I was notoriously bad at quiet times. I lacked discipline. And, in the rare periods when I disciplined myself to have a daily quiet time, I quickly found my prayers felt inauthentic. 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