How to Fight Fear in Motherhood

Raising kids is a high calling, but not an easy one. As parents, we’re often racked with fear for our children. If we’re not careful, these anxieties can consume us.

In this new six-minute roundtable, three women in different seasons of motherhood—Noël Piper, Kathleen Nielson, and Gloria Furman—talk about how they fight their own fears. Furman discusses the encouragement she receives from dwelling on Jesus and the role older women play in her life as a young mom. Piper reflects the ways prayer helped her push back the fear she felt when her kids left home as adults. Nielson shares how vital it is to have the gospel motivate her heart, rather than her own desires.

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Noël Piper is wife of John Piper, mother of five, and grandmother of twelve. She is author of Treasuring God in Our Traditions.

Gloria Furman (MACE, Dallas Theological Seminary) is a wife, mother of four, cross-cultural worker, and writer. She lives in the Middle East where her husband, Dave, serves as the pastor of Redeemer Church of Dubai. She is the author of Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home (Crossway, 2013) and Missional Motherhood: The Everday Ministry of Motherhood in the Grand Plan of God (Crossway, 2016). You can read her blog at GloriaFurman.com.

Kathleen Nielson is an author and speaker who loves working with women in studying the Scriptures. She has taught literature (PhD, Vanderbilt University), directed women’s Bible studies in local churches, and served as director of The Gospel Coalition’s women’s initiatives from 2010 to 2017. She and her husband, Niel, make their home partly in Wheaton, Illinois, and partly in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Niel helps lead a network of Christian schools and universities. They have three sons, three daughters-in-law, and nine grandchildren.