Welcome to Joyfilled. I'm your host, Jenna, and this is the Couches Chat coffee cup and hand

podcast for Christian moms who want to thrive in the hard and holy work of motherhood.

Here, we push back against the lie that being just a mom is small and instead celebrate the

high calling of shaping hearts and homes for Jesus. We chat about faith, motherhood, and the

everyday joys and struggles of raising

kids. I'm in it with you and so are countless other moms and most importantly, Jesus himself.

So together we'll laugh, learn, and lean into grace as we navigate all the sleepless nights,

sticky floors, and soul-stretching moments that motherhood has to offer, all while looking

for the joy along the way,

because there is so much joy to be found. So let's experience it together.

Have you ever taken a minute to look at your life and thought, this is really not how I thought

the story would go? Maybe you thought you'd be more fulfilled,

or there's a dream that hasn't happened yet that you thought would have happened by now.

Or maybe you just imagined this season of life differently. Maybe you've been disappointed.

Maybe you've been hurt. Maybe you've been through some grief. Maybe you love your life

and your family deeply, but there's still a quiet,

just grief and processing over things that seem paused and hidden and unfinished. I want to talk about

that today. If that's you, I want to remind you, number one, that God is not done with your story.

He's still writing your story.

And number two, we can trust the author. We can trust him with our lives, with our stories.

I know it's so easy, especially as women. We want to plan and we want to have everything planned out.

We want to know what's coming. We want to, you know, before we commit to something, we want to have everything planned out. We want to know what's coming. We want to,

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