Never Perfect: Finding More Joy, And Less Guilt, as a Mom - Leslie Leyland Fields

Leslie Leyland Fields and her husband Duncan have raised six kids on two remote islands in Alaska. In this message, she shares her journey from perfect mother, to fishing-crew mother, to embattled mother, to happy “good-enough” mother who discovers the power of true love.
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[@joanakrieger9635]

Thank you sooo much. I needed to hear this.

[@senjahawks857]

I can identify so much with her. Thank you so much.❤

[@pambrodsky2216]

I have so needed to hear this message of “just be faithful”. Thank you so much!

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

Amen to this especially as a parent who has loss😢

[@justbc4769]

I kinna needed to listen to this today. ❤

[@dassaarzoo]

Very powerful and encouraging message ❤️‍🔥

[@Bonnieuxful]

Thank you Leslie. This is so encouraging ❣️This reminds me of the Prodigal Son and his father. 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻👬

[@albertovazquez6104]

What a blessing!! Thank you Lord Jesus for this message as it ministered to my heart for often time I feel like a total failure as a father to my children!!

[@lyanasbarker1865]

WOW, THANNK YOU FOR SHARING.

[@penguin_mom]

Thank you for this beautiful message! I was needing this today! ❤❤❤

[@ke753reej]

I needed this. Thank you!

[@user-ms3pf4sf9l]

I needed this today!!! Thank you Lord for using her.

[@christyangel6553]

This was so encouraging 👏 Thank you!

[@manelboussoukaya]

Thank you for allllll your valuable informations ❤

[@boipelogubago2037]

Amen!

[@sandangweforngufor8543]

Amazing story. I did not even notice all my anxiety was mum guilt until I listened to this. Thank you so much for this words of encouragement. You have lifted burdens off my shoulder.

[@joydhanraj]

So encouraged & blessed

[@toeaqueen]

Mum of a one year old - watching from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

[@mangao4334]

Thank you for this

[@lisacadman3842]

Wow....raising six kids in Alaska? While commercial fishing? That would require so much trust in God's protection! She's amazing.

[@Elizabeth-jt6tw]

watching from Kerala, India, Bincy Elizabeth Mathew

[@Beautyforahses]

❤beautiful. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@TanyaRadic]

She looks pretty ke Reba McIntyre

[@mourningwarbler]

I'm pretty disappointed in Christian in the name of Jesus women who undertake to undermine parents. I used to be friends with a woman who declared that a teen man spent a lot of time at their home; she said he had terrible parents; what's wrong with them? I asked; she never answered. Eventually the young man married her daughter. But when he pounded her head against the floor, the marriage was over. And also his relationship with his "loving neighbors" was over. I guess maybe this Christian with a Bible college degree didn't know as much about the young man and his parents as she thought. So she and her family have moved on. Never mind that messed up kid now man whom she "helped."