1KHO 868: Creating and Playing Simply For The Love Of It | Brianna Lambert, Created To Play

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What if the hobbies you love aren't distractions from your purpose—but part of it? In this conversation, Ginny sits down with Brianna Lambert, author of Created to Play, to explore why God designed us not only to work, but also to create, collect, restore, cook, play games, make music, build, and delight in the world around us. Together they unpack how our hobbies can deepen our faith, strengthen our relationships, cultivate patience and humility, and remind us that we were never meant to live by productivity alone. Whether you're a maker, a gardener, a collector, a baker, a reader, a restorer, or someone who's forgotten what you used to love doing, this episode is an invitation to rediscover the joy of play—and to see your passions as gifts that point back to the Creator. In this episode, you'll hear: Why hobbies are more than "just for fun" The forgotten meaning of the word avocation How play helps us grow spiritually Why efficiency isn't the highest goal The surprising ways hobbies strengthen relationships How to embrace the unique ways God designed you to create, explore, and delight This conversation might just give you permission to pick up that hobby you've been putting off—and discover that it's been part of God's plan all along. Get your copy of Created To Play here A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them out below: BetterHelp: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit www.quince.com/outside and get free shipping and 365 day returns IXL Learning - Head to www.ixl.com/1000hours to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Whisker - Take care of your cats while taking an additional $50 off bundles with code 1000HOURS when you shop www.whisker.com/1000HOURS woom Bikes - Go to woom.com and use code 1000HOURS at checkout for 10% off your new bike purchase, excluding the woom WOW. Muzzle Sleep Tape - Go to MuzzleSleep.com and use code 1000HOURS for 10% off. Ethos Life Insurance - Get your free quote at ethos.com/1000hours Active Skin Repair - Don’t forget to put this in your first aid kit! Visit ActiveSkinRepair.com and use the code 1000HOURS to save 20% on all Active Skin Repair products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Earton, the founder of 1000 Hours Outside,
0:04.8	and I've just read a heartwarming book, an intriguing book, a book that's going to open your mind
0:10.0	about the immense amount of things that you can do in the world to enhance your quality of life.
0:17.1	Brianna Lambert wrote a book called Created to Play, How Taking Hobbies Seriously Grows Us Spiritual. And I just loved it. And I was so impressed, like even on the cover, you've got all these different hobbies, but it was just like hobby after hobby after hobby, all categorized into these different categories of, you know, different things that you might be interested in. Brianna, welcome. And congrats on your new book. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to get to talk to you about all this. And you're also a homeschooling family. You have ducks and a dog and you live in the cornfields of Indiana. You've been a writer for a bit. Can you talk about being a staff writer? So you've had articles appear in different places. So you are a
0:55.8	staff writer for a while. You've been writing for a while. And then this is your first book out in the
0:59.8	world. Yeah, I started writing when my oldest, who is now 13, almost 14, was just less than a year
1:07.6	old and just started online with writing through the things the Lord was teaching
1:11.7	me. Then I became a staff writer at gospel center discipleship, just continued to write, whether it was
1:18.7	articles, and I branched into some just having fun with poetry and short stories. And just I really
1:25.5	dug into that form of play that the Lord instilled in me.
1:29.5	And it actually became more of a vocation as well.
1:33.2	And that brought us this new book that I'm really excited about.
1:37.4	It's been a long process.
1:38.7	I've been working on it for the last three years.
1:41.7	And actually the birth of it was six years ago in an article I wrote. So I'm just
1:46.4	finally excited to have people read it and to interact about it. Well, huge congrats to you. And
1:51.8	what you've done is you've taken all these things that we really love about life, but sometimes
1:55.2	we feel like we shouldn't do them. We feel lazy if we're doing them. Or we feel the pressure to
1:59.3	turn it into a business and you've put
2:01.7	them into these different categories like maybe you like to make things maybe you like to nourish
2:06.9	people in the kitchen maybe you like to move maybe you're a collector and you're kind of restoring
2:12.9	those things for adults you know kids are often doing these things naturally, but then we kind of lose
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