Hey Mama, I'm Jenna, and you're listening to the Joy-Filled podcast. I'm here to help stay-at-home moms thrive by equipping you with tools to help you acknowledge and embrace your season and encourage you to

bring joy back into your motherhood. You'll walk away with everything you need to truly experience

the fullness of joy in this beautiful season of raising babies at home. So reheat or refill

wherever you're at in your day, your coffee, and let's live joy-filled

together.

One of my favorite parts about the Christmas season is being able to just take a pause, take a minute, and get quiet and

lean into this story of Jesus's birth. And I know Christmas is such a busy season for most of us.

And, you know, there's the hustle and the bustle and all the things and all the

present wrapping and the present buying and the events and the parties and all the things that we

want to try to squeeze into this short season but one of my favorite things to do is get quiet

and study and dive into the story and dive into the Word of God. And I feel like

each year, God just reveals new pieces of the story to me. And I love that about life with God

is he's constantly revealing new things to us and he's constantly

growing us and growing us in our faith. And so this year I've been really just turning my

attention towards Mary and she plays such an integral part obviously in the story of Jesus's birth. And I am just so fascinated

and so in awe of her. And so I thought, what better way to enter into Christmas week

than to just take a few minutes to take some notes from some motherhood notes from the mother of Jesus herself.

So there are so many things that I could say about Mary. And I'm so thankful for her example

that we get to follow. And I feel like there are endless lessons that we could learn

from her. But for today, I want to just focus on four different verses that will give us four

different lessons from Mary. So this episode is a little bit different. It's going to be more like

a Bible study, like a little devotional, just short and sweet to get you through your week and maybe offer

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