About “mamas in spirit”
“Mamas in Spirit” is a mini-retreat in a podcast. Each week Lindy interviews guests about how God has converted their hearts and transformed their lives. The stories shared are much like witness talks heard on retreats.
Listeners will learn how deeply they are loved, they are never alone and how God will bless them with exactly what they need in every circumstance (even the ones that seem too much to bear). They will discover how they are called to live purpose-filled lives and share the gift of who they are with all those they encounter.
“Mamas in Spirit” shares the stories of people in every walk of life so we can look below the surface and hear what we share in common at the soul level as a human family. Every person is profoundly valuable and experiences both suffering and joy. When we open our hearts to God we learn how He will transform everything, even when we think it is impossible.
Lindy is also a Speaker and Retreat Leader. Learn more here!
A Little Bit About Lindy’s Heart As a Mama
“When I was in college I went on a service immersion trip to Tijuana Mexico. One of the places we visited was an orphanage–this one day changed the entire trajectory of my life. While I reveled in the joy of the children, I also experienced the heartbreak of knowing they did not have families. Some of the children’s parents were too poor to care for them, while other children did not have parents at all.
I returned the following summer to volunteer at the orphanage and a seed was planted in my heart to adopt. Twenty-five years later my husband and I continue to raise our three adopted children. Two are biological siblings we adopted at the ages of three and six from foster care and our youngest we adopted as an infant in a private adoption. Two of our children have special needs.
I have learned from my journey of becoming an adoptive mother that love knows no bounds. We are tied as a human family by God and are called to accompany one another in the most intimate of ways. We must care for the poor and vulnerable.
May the stories shared in Mamas in Spirit help us to do just this.”
How Mamas in Spirit Began
After watching three different friends (who were all wives and mothers) fight for their lives, I was struck how each strived to live as long as she could to prepare their children and families for life without them. This witness caused me to study the fragility of life and strength of the soul.
I also considered my own mortality and the fact that I did not know how long my life would be. I decided I wanted to create something for my daughters that would enable me to still love into them—and guide them in the most important ways—even if anything ever happened to me like these women I held dear.
I spent the next year writing fifty-two letters to my daughters encompassing all the things mamas want to be able to talk to and journey with their daughters through: God, faith, relationships, marriage and life.
The day I finished writing the letters I heard the call to have heartfelt conversations about the fifty-two topics in my letters with others and record them as a podcast. Both through ministry work and as a mother through adoption, I knew so many women out there are starving for support, encouragement and wisdom.
I had never listened to a podcast at this point. Yet I made a year-long commitment to create and release fifty-two podcasts—this began “Mamas in Spirit, a mini-retreat in a podcast.”
I am now in my fifth year of Mamas in Spirit and have recorded over 200 podcasts, each with as featured guest with something that felt vital to share. They discuss how God has converted their hearts and changed their lives through trial.
As an adoptive mother I have learned that love knows no bounds. Mamas in Spirit’s mission is to share stories of people in every walk of life facing unimaginable circumstances (much like my girlfriends’), to inspire listeners to open their hearts to the transformative love of God and share this love themselves—especially with the poor and vulnerable.
There is no topic that is untouched in Mamas in Spirit—there are podcasts about illness, infidelity, addiction, loss, grief, incarceration, abuse, foster care, infertility and so much more. The conversations are unscripted, authentic and loving, just as my conversations with the women who inspired me to sit down and write the letters to my daughters were. I want listeners to know they are never alone and while struggles can be unimaginably difficult, the love, healing and transformation that God offers is always greater.