The standard-issue uniform for mothering is steel-toed boots, a referee jersey, a chef’s hat, a therapist’s notepad, and FBI credentials, and somehow you never get to take it off. But beneath all the jobs a mother does is one that is easier to miss: showing her children what a life surrendered to God looks like.

In this message, we turn to Luke 1 and 2, to a young woman who says yes to God before she knows the cost and then sings a song stitched together from fragments of Scripture. Jesus was not raised in a vacuum. He was raised in a home where surrender, Scripture, and worship were part of the language of everyday life.

Make your home templed space, not simply a place you leave in order to worship. Let Scripture become the language your children hear on ordinary days. Show them that winning means choosing God’s way over your own. And give yourself grace for the days you get it wrong. Mary needed grace too, and she had it.