Life’s Little Moments- Alyssia Brindley (May 3, 2025)

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Life's big moments get all the attention—the birthdays, graduations, weddings, and holidays. Meanwhile, the endless repetition of daily tasks can make us wonder if we're making any meaningful progress. Are we really advancing, growing, or fulfilling our purpose when every day looks like the one before?

Alyssia Brindley tackles this profound question in her first ministry message at Organic Church. Speaking from her personal experience as a mother who initially resisted stepping into ministry, Alyssa offers a refreshing perspective on finding purpose in life's mundane routines. With disarming honesty, she acknowledges the thankless aspects of motherhood—the endless diaper changes, lunch-packing, and school drop-offs that can leave one wondering, "What have I actually accomplished?"

Drawing from Proverbs' assurance that "our steps are established by the Lord," Alyssa reveals how God works through our daily faithfulness in ways we often miss. Through touching personal stories—like her children initiating their own Bible studies after watching her quiet devotional habits—she demonstrates how our lived example speaks volumes without a single sermon. This message resonates far beyond motherhood, touching anyone who has felt invisible, stuck, or uncertain of their impact.

Whether you're a new parent overwhelmed by responsibilities, someone longing for children, an empty-nester searching for new purpose, or simply feeling lost in life's routines, Alyssa's gentle reminder remains the same: "You are still here for a purpose... Don't measure your life by the big steps. The little things matter and you matter."

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
no-transcript.

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If we can all get to our seats,we are going to get ready to
start.
So for those of you who havenever met me, I'm Pastor Michael
Brindley.
I am the senior pastor atOrganic Church.
I'm surrounded by a wonderfulteam.
I have Pastor Holly, I havePastor Roger and then so many
other volunteers.
But you know, we've been doingthis for six years.

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I've been the senior pastorhere for six years and early on
in the ministry somebody spokeinto my life and they said that
my wife would come alongside mein ministry and for years I said
yes, she will.
And for years she said no, Iwon't.
And it was a long time I pushedand I pushed and finally I got

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her to agree to record a podcastwith me called Tied Together,
and it was just marriage andlife and kids and homeschool and
all the things that weexperience in life on top of
being a pastoral family.
And so I was like, yes, wefinally got something.
And then it took Pastor Hollyasking her to do this for her to

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actually step into ministry.
So I am so excited that youguys are here to get to hear,
the very first time, mybeautiful wife Alyssa Hello, is

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this loud enough?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Is this close enough?
Can everybody hear me?
Yes, okay.
So when Pastor Holly firstasked me to do this back in oh,
I don't, february maybe I cameup with every reason that I
shouldn't, couldn't and wouldn't, and she said it'll be a small

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group.
And she said it'll be a smallgroup.
10 to 15 minutes is all, andultimately I cannot say no to
people.
So here we are.
I have a fine time doing it to.
Michael, though I startedpraying and I said, God, there
will be children, women withoutchildren, women who wish there

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were children, mothers, peoplewho don't have their mothers.
How am I supposed to saysomething to all of them when
there will be such a diversegroup?
And I was just thinking I can'ttalk about being a mother
because there are a room full ofpeople more qualified than I to
do that and I didn't want totalk about my own mother because

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I would cry.
So I just, I was really praying, like God.
Mother's Day isn't always alovey-dovey, great holiday for
everybody.
Some people it's daunting anddepressing, like some years has
been for me.
But it's not about what isn'tI'm going to talk about.

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No matter where you are, if youare a child, if you are a
mother, already a grandmotherwho doesn't even have kids at
home, I think this is going tobe for you, no matter where you
are, and maybe even some of themit, I don't know.
I will reference mothers,obviously, but again, I think

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this will be for anybody.
When we look at our lives and wethink about the things that
matter, we tend to think of thebig things.
As mothers, it's oh, my babyturned a year old and you're
like I mean, you did that, youlike made a whole human and now
it's a year old, so that's amilestone for us.
Or, oh, they've graduatedkindergarten, they've graduated

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high school, now it's collegeand all of the big moments in
life, like it's birthdays orvacation holidays, whatever it
is.
We measure in these big thingsand I did this, sir.
We got to this part and it'snot all.
But when you look at your lifeas a mom, you go through, when

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they're babies, all of thethings that you do.
You are changing diapers day inand day out, and then you're
packing school lunches andyou're taking them to school and
you're doing all the things.
And when you look back on thelast six months, you're like,
what have I done?
Like have I moved forward?
Because it's the same thing dayin and day out, day in and day

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out, and we don't tend to thinkabout the way that the mundane
everyday life grows us and wethink we can think does it
really matter All of thesethings?
Being a mother can be athankless job.
Are we really?
Am I growing?
Am I doing and this can be evenin work, in motherhood,
whatever?
Am I moving forward?
Am I advancing the kingdom?
Have I opened my Bible in thelast month?

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Everything just becomes soheavy and just.
You're doing the same thingevery day, but life doesn't
always.
It doesn't matter all of thelittle things in our head, but
when you look back all of themundane things, they do matter.
God gave us all a purpose and amission.
All of us have the same purposeand mission.

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Moses told the Israelites to.
The greatest commandment is tolove God with all your heart,
with all your soul and with allyour strength.
And you are to tell that toyour children and repeat it
often.
Talk about it in the day and inthe night, at work and at rest.
And then Jesus again affirmedthis when asked by the Pharisees

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.
In 1 Corinthians it sayswhatever we do, do it for the
glory of God.
So if we are loving God withall of our heart, with all of
our soul, with all of ourstrength and giving him the
glory in all things, our livesand our hearts are aligned with
God.
In Proverbs it says that oursteps are established by the

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Lord.
Meaning established, meaningfixed and firm, secure, not
subject to change or todestruction.
And for me, even as I was doingthis, I was like, oh like, what
a relief that is that our stepsare already determined by the
Lord.
Before.

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The Bible says when we wereformless, god knew every moment
of our lives and how Sometimesin the everyday you're just
moving.
You're moving and you don'tfeel like you're going forward,
but God establishes our steps.
So, even when it is just thebleh of life and you haven't

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done it, there are no big thingshappening in your life, whether
that means your children areadults and you even have
grandchildren and you don't feellike you're doing a lot with
your life.
God has established your stepsand you are where you need to be
.
He does not call us from 20 to60 and when you're a child, you

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don't matter and you don't havea purpose.
And when you're older, youdon't matter and you don't have
a purpose.
He has called us our wholelives to do his, his for his
purpose and his mission, whichis to love God with all of our
hearts, souls and strength.
And so I get.

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I often feel like I'm not doingenough with my in regards to my
children.
I'm not doing enough.
They.
They aren't learning this, sothey're not doing that.
They need to do more, and itcan feel like everything just
gets in the way.
There's not enough time.
Lord, I want to do more Biblestudies with my kids.

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I want them to learn more ofyour word.
The Bible says that we'resupposed to repeat it to our
kids.
Like, how can I get in themthat this is what like God?
God is love and you got to loveGod with your whole heart.
And you can't make them.
You know, like you can tellthem but you can't make them.
And then I'm reminded justagain in everyday life that I

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don't have to throw into my kidswhat I want them to know.
My life reflects that.
The other day, on Tuesday,during that bad storm, we were
in the car and I'm looking atthe cars coming at us and they
have their hazards on and I'mlike, oh, it's getting worse.
And there's this big treebranch and it wasn't close to

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the car, but I could see it justright across the highway.
I'm like, okay, we're gettingoff on Midvale exit and we're
going to the church.
Like I'm not trying to go homeand I was just praying.
I was like, lord, please keepus safe, get us to the church.
And later one of the kids toldme they said I just knew you
were going to start praying intongues the whole way there,

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because they know, like when I'min the car and I'm stressed out
, that's how I'm getting frompoint A to point B.
And then another thing that I,whenever the kids were younger,
smaller, I would try to wake upearly in the morning and do my
Bible study before they wouldwake up, because it's just
chaotic.
And then I started to do it inthe morning while they were

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awake, and I would just you know, don't let me finish reading,
but you know you don't needanything right now, but they
would see that.
And then my daughter startedher own little Bible study.
Or she would open her Bible andread Bible stories that she
remembers from class or thatwe've gone over, or whatever,
and she did it.
And then it was mom, can we doa Bible study?

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And she would open up her Bibleand I'd bring mine, and then
she would ask me, wake me up inthe morning when you're going to
read your Bible.
And my boys, when they shared aroom, they would have Bible
study some nights together, andthat was never me.
Hey, you need to do this Likeyou need to be in the word every
day.
You know, to like my smallchildren, it was my life and

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they saw it.
That's the everyday, normalpart of my life.
That, to me, feels like I'mjust doing the same thing over
and over again and I'm notmoving forward.
I'm not going.
You know I'm not.
There's not a big moment totell me like, wow, you've really
done this in the last sixmonths, it just feels so.

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Job 28, 24 says for the Lordlooks at the ends of the earth
and he sees everything under theheavens.
So the maker of the universe,of heaven, earth and everything
in it, sees you, he sees me, hesees every one of us, no matter
where you are.
If you are a woman desperatelywanting a child, or if you are

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an older woman who doesn't havechildren at home and you long
for those days, or you don'tspeak to your adult children, or
you don't have your mother thatyou wish you did, he sees you
and you are still here for apurpose.
Your purpose is to love God andalign yourself with God,
because you can't say, oh, I goto church, yeah, I love God.

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I love God Like I love my aunt,great, great, great Aunt Ida,
because she's my family, if Idon't speak to great great Aunt
Ida in the last three years andI haven't seen her, spoke to her
.
Nothing am I really loving her?
And through prayer, and thatwill align you with God and he

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will form your steps, you won'tbe out of line with what his
purpose is for you, no matterwhere you are in life or in your
motherhood journey, what you doevery day matters, even if it's
not anything big.
Don't measure your life by thesmall steps that you or the by

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the big steps that you do.
The little things matter andyou matter, and that is all.