spiritually feasting

I [have] learned the importance of creating your own background as a mother, so that when the stuff in the foreground starts rushing at you like a tidal wave, you can handle it. The key to this is knowing who you are and then bringing that person, well and whole, to the mothering party.
Inevitably, prayer is going to play a big role in the process. After all "who you are" goes back a lot further than this tiny slice of eternity we call mortality. If you want to understand the deepest part of yourself, who better to stay in touch with than the One who knows that part better than anyone--better than you yourself know it? When you are comfortable with your spirit, you can go forward armed with powerful spiritual tools instead of the flimsy hardward you might accumulate in the world.
You get comfortable with your spirit just the way you might get comfortable with a person who becomes a good friend--by spending time with it, attending to it, learning from it, recognizing its needs, and appreciating it. You have to feed it to keep in healthy, and a steady diet of scriptures and service works nicely, with maybe some good music and family fun for dessert. If you make your spirit sick with entertainment that you know better than to involve yourself in, or simply starve it to death with neglect, you will never be happy with it. And if you're unhappy with your spirit, you are unhappy with yourself in the most fundamental way.
"Being the Mom" by Emily Watts page 81-82