Hey, moms, welcome to this episode of the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I'm Durenda, wife to one, mom to eight,

Nana to 12, and 30-year veteran homeschooling mom. I'm also the author of four books,

The Unhurried Homestchooler, The Four Hours

School Day, Unhurried Grace for a Mom's Heart, and Raising Boys to Men. You can find all four of

those books on Amazon, and if you haven't checked them out, I would really encourage you to go do that.

I think you'll find tons of encouragement there. But we are so glad that you're here with us

today. We are going to have a great conversation um

we all know that unrealistic and unmet expectations can take a real toll on the state of our souls

and our relationships including our relationship with god so today i've invited wes to share

some thoughts on having a biblical perspective when it comes to expectations of

ourselves, of others, and of God. So if you don't know Wes, which I'm sure most of you already do by

now, but you might be new to the podcast. He is a husband, a homeschooling dad of five, and the

pastor of our church. He's been a guest on the podcast numerous times, and we've covered a myriad of

topics that I encourage you to check out. I'll leave a list of the episodes we've done together

in the show notes, but I want to dive into today's topic right away because I think we have a lot

to cover. So, West's welcome. Yeah, thanks for having me on again. Yeah, I'm excited because this topic of expectations, I think I mentioned to this to you in an

email that it's pretty broad.

It could cover a lot of different things, but today I wanted to talk about expectations of

ourselves, expectations of others and expectations of God that we have and may not realize that we have.

And like I said, it can take a real toll on our relationships.

It can take a toll on just how we see ourselves, if we see ourselves as a constant failure

because we're not meeting expectations that actually aren't from God.

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