Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our hearts.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Are you working too hard, or are you doing exactly what God has called you to do, and it just happens to involve a lot of work right now.

Sometimes it's hard to decipher between the two, and I want to talk about where that line is

and how to know if we've crossed it right after this.

Just recently I was talking with a friend about how I thought I'd become a workaholic of some

kind because the amount of work I have started doing lately, just with launching this podcast and

ministry strong on top of what I was already doing and riding and traveling and speaking.

And, oh yeah, being a mom and a wife.

And she said to me something that really struck me, you love your work.

That's why you're working so much.

It honestly stopped me in my tracks when she said it because I've always been this person that sort of prided myself on not

overworking. Really have been so careful not to take on too much because I've watched a lot of

people, especially women, it seems, get crazy burned out overworking themselves, over scheduling,

and I've just always said that I would never become that person. So here I am now in one of the

busiest work seasons of my life, and I think I feel a bit guilty about it, maybe even a little

embarrassed, especially when people know what all I'm doing or think about this being a daily podcast and they

have said with concern in their eyes, now don't work too much. And I appreciate that. I really do.

But I also think that the weird thing is that they don't really know me and know that I'm a person

that I really put up boundaries and I don't really struggle with editing or editing my life

that is or saying no. So taking all this on truly was not done flippantly. I knew what I was

getting into and you know what has surprised me. I'm not stressed and I don't feel overworked or drained

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