Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast.

I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to my podcast.

Today we're kicking off a little mini-series on becoming a student of God, becoming a theologian,

studying God's Word, spiritual disciplines, kind of whatever you want to call it,

that's what we're kicking it off.

We're going to be specifically talking about Bible reading, prayer, memorizing scripture,

and yet how to do that as a busy woman.

We're going to have a lot of grace. We're going to have a lot of real talk in this mini-series and a lot of practical tips. I really love talking about this topic of spiritual disciplines from a very

practical standpoint. I am a busy mom of six young kids.

We run our business. I have a full and busy schedule. So I will say it is not easy for me

finding time to be in God's word, praying. I have had bad seasons where I am very out of the habit. You know, and I, you know,

you kind of feel like every time I have a kid, every time we kind of hit one of those, you know,

periods where someone's up in the middle of the night for what feels like forever on end,

you know, you get out of the habit and it can feel hard to kind of claw your way back to a good

habit and routine. And so what I'm

going to be sharing through this little mini series is not the perspective of someone who does this

perfectly all the time and has all the answers. I am going to be sharing as someone who struggles

with this. So if you struggle with this, hopefully you're going to get a lot of grace

and encouragement from this because it is an important thing. We don't just say, oh, well, you're in a

busy season. Maybe one day you'll study God's word. No, it is important for us to fight for that

in our daily habits, in our routines. We'll kind of talk about the reasons

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