About The Samaritan Mom Blog

As a woman and a believer, I can relate to the women in the Bible who couldn’t go up to the mountains to meet with God like the men did. However, I truly can testify and relate to the times God came and met women where they were. Consider the woman at the well—unclean, unrighteous, sinful, and messed up. If she had husbands previously, I can only assume she had kids too. Being a woman and a wife is one challenge, but being a mother and a Samaritan woman at that must have left her wanting to jump into that well and end it all. The shame, the guilt, the failure. If the Proverbs 31 woman’s children call her blessed, what do the Samaritan mom’s kids call her?

I started off as a single mom and now I am married (joyfully so) to a non-believer, navigating marriage (thankfully we agree) and parenting three of God’s children (hoping we don't mess them up). I cannot lie and say that marriage is easy, especially when married to a non-believer, but I can say that God is faithful to pour His ever-living water into our marriage and home when all other wells run dry.

My desire is to share openly and honestly, not to encourage anyone to follow in my path and my mistakes, but to encourage those who, like me, have fallen short as women, wives, and mothers. God longs to sit with us, talk with us, and attend to us even when we may not be the traditional, acceptable, and befitting type. These are the journals of the steps on the journey through joy, pain, brokenness, life, and loss of The Samaritan Mom.

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John 4:39: "Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, 'He told me everything I ever did.'"