A Life In Season

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Leisure, Home & Garden

5.0 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

Today's episode is a tender one. It's about fully living in the season you're in even when that season is uncomfortable, uncertain, or deeply painful.

I'm sharing honestly about the past year our family has walked through: fertility treatments, hope, loss, surrender, and the quiet work of trusting the Lord with desires I cannot carry on my own. I talk about what it's been like to hold an open heart as my older children step into young adulthood, and how grief and longing have sharpened my awareness of what is right in front of me.

This episode isn't about escaping hard seasons or rushing toward what comes next. It's about presence. About resisting the pull to live in the past or anxiously project ourselves into the future. About the truth that not everything that feels uncomfortable is bad and that being fully present may be the greatest gift available to us right now.

I share reflections on living seasonally not just in the garden or the kitchen, but in the soul. I call it combing out the tangles of the heart and trusting God's steady presence in the midst of it all.

If you've been navigating a season of waiting, loss, transition, or quiet surrender, I hope this episode feels like a chair pulled up beside you.

You can also continue this conversation with me over on my new Substack, A Life In Season, where I'm writing more deeply about living present and faithful in every chapter of life.

In this episode I also referenced a past episode with my friend Regan. You can hear that podcast here.

Thanks for being here, and for walking alongside me in every season. If you've found value in this project, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, where you can listen early and join our monthly Q&A.

As always, I bless you until next time.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, darlands, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host, Jessica Sauerz. My friends
0:13.0	call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on my podcast, we talk about all things homesteading,
0:17.7	growing food by growing gardens, raising animals, preserving, preparing,
0:22.4	and enjoying that food, and trying to live more mindfully in relationship with each other and with
0:28.0	the earth. This is the first podcast I have recorded in quite a little while. So I am going to
0:35.6	talk a little bit today about what's been going on with us.
0:38.2	And I know I've done this a few times over the last year or two.
0:41.5	But every time I come to the place of downsizing or rearranging my life, making changes,
0:50.5	which has happened a couple times in the last year or two.
0:53.8	I'll lay the podcast down,
0:55.5	and what ends up inevitably happening is I come, you know, face to face with how much I value
1:00.9	making this and how much I value doing it. And so I come back. And that's where I'm at today I have greatly missed this this place of this
1:15.7	expression and I want to talk to you today about seasons and the seasonal life and this is this one's
1:25.0	going to be a vulnerable one I am going to talk about some really hard things that we've gone through recently and just open up about it.
1:32.0	This year, my husband and I have been on something of a fertility journey, which is an interesting thing for me.
1:40.4	I had my first son when I was 19 years old.
1:42.7	He just turned 20 this last weekend.
1:47.1	And I proceeded to have five sons over the course of the next 10 years that followed.
1:54.8	And when I was 29, I had my last son, Benjamin, my baby.
1:59.3	And during my C-section, which was an emergency C-section,
2:03.1	after having had all these lovely natural births, we made the decision really kind of on a whim
2:09.0	to go ahead and have my tubes removed. And at the time, I was very settled about that.
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