Real Life: Being Faithful to Each Unique Season

In this first episode of a two-part conversation, Alison Dazzio shares her journey of faith, motherhood, and her experiences in the working world.

As she honestly reflects on her experiences as a young woman navigating relationships, desires, and the challenges of being a mother, Ali emphasizes the importance of honesty in relationships, the struggle of finding one's identity, and the beauty of the often hidden years spent in motherhood. She also discusses her transition back to the working world and gives us an authentic example of how women’s roles are multi-faceted.

For any woman out there who is trying to figure out where she is called to offer her gifts, Ali’s life testifies to the fact that we must NOT box women into being one way or the other. Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, a full-time working woman, or everything in between, this episode gives witness to the fact that each woman’s unique call is dependent upon her life circumstances and very real needs. If you want to be encouraged in the reality that your unique call to holiness as a daughter, a sister, a friend, a wife, and a mother is about being faithful to your one real life in front of you, then this episode is for you.

Some nuggets of wisdom to take away from this episode:

• Honesty in relationships is crucial for growth and understanding.

• Our desires can align with God's will if we are open to His guidance. Do not assume that He wants the opposite of your desires!!

• The hidden years of motherhood are formative and should be treasured.

• Finding one's identity is a lifelong journey, especially in marriage.

• It is important to be honest with oneself and with God.

• The transition back to work can be both a calling and a challenge.

• God's love is central to understanding our purpose and identity.

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Alison Dazzio is most proud to be called mom by my 3 amazing daughters and wife to their dad!  Growing up in South Louisiana, Ali attended Catholic School through the university level, graduating from Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio in 1994. 

Ali delights greatly in the gift of being wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, co-worker, etc…yet the greatest joy of her life is being God’s… to be loved and known by He who is God, her Creator, her Father, her Jesus, her savior, her dearest friend, and eternal lover. For her, the invitation is to live a life through, with, and in the power of the Holy Spirit. Belonging to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is everything from which all else that is beautiful, true, good and holy flows. Love never fails. (1 Cor 13)

Currently, Ali works at Christ the King on the campus of Louisiana State University as the Administrative Director.  After working as and loving being a stay-at-home mom for 18 years, I went to work for a medical company she helped start, ImmediaCare, and then went to work for Woman’s New Life Clinic in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. She did not plan or have a desire to work for the Church or with college students, but the Lord brought her to this particular work at Christ the King, and it has become a great joy and blessing in her life.