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

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.

Happy Wednesday, continuing on in our parenting month, and this week our What to Do When Week.

We've already covered parenting tough kids, what to do when our heart is broken

by our child, and up today is something I experienced really deeply for myself when my kids were

little. It has to do with the word depletion. And in a really specific way, I want to talk to you

about, so stay with me and I'll be right back.

If you've been listening since the beginning, you've heard me tell a lot of personal stories about my life and journey as a mom.

And one of those is when my husband lost his job when my kids were all three under the

age of three.

And it was really difficult 18 months.

One of the things that was the most difficult

for me was trying to parent my kids and meet their needs, along with the needs of my husband,

by the way, when I had nothing really for myself, trying to encourage my husband in faith

and to keep going when I was pretty spiritually depleted on a lot of days because I simply

didn't have time for a quiet time with

God because of so much going on with logistics with parenting. To be honest, I was lucky to even

get up and brush my teeth and comb my hair, much less have prayer time and Bible reading. I was in

mommy survival mode, and I know some of you listeners can relate, and many of the others of you can

remember and empathize. So what do you do when you have nothing left for yourself in your spiritual life,

in your time and all the ways really? This becomes especially hard when you hit a moment of crisis

and you lose a job or you have a health diagnosis or like one listener rode in. You're trying to

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