Motherhood can feel exhausting, discouraging, and overwhelming—especially on the days when you feel like you’ve tried everything and nothing is working. But what if those hard seasons aren’t proof that you’re failing? What if God is using them to grow you?

In this honest and vulnerable episode of Miracles in the Madness, Ashton shares from the middle of a difficult parenting night—when she felt discouraged, overwhelmed, and far from the patient, gentle mother she wanted to be. She opens her Bible to Galatians and finds a powerful reminder: “Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.” — Galatians 6:9

Ashton reflects on the tension between grace and consequences, gentleness and discipline, perseverance and exhaustion, and what it looks like to keep pointing our  ...