Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing to each other in the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you've stopped by, so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit as we talk about how God's word impacts

every area of our lives as Christian women. Hello, friend. I'm Marcy Farrell from Thankful Homemaker,

and I'm so glad to be with you today. We all talk about being busy, don't we? When someone

asks us how we're doing, it's so easy to quickly

answer, busy, without even thinking about it. Life feels so full for many of us. There are

responsibilities to manage, people to care for, work to do, ministries to serve, and homes to

tend. And in many ways, right, that's not a bad thing because Scripture calls believers to live

lives that serve the Lord and love others well. But busyness and faithfulness are not always the

same thing. The Christian life was never meant to be lived by constantly trying to keep up.

We were meant to walk closely with Christ and depend on him day by day. Kevin DeYoung writes

in a favorite book of mine of his, it's a little book, Crazy Busy. He states,

busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy.

So we can be busy, doing good things, and we can still find our hearts becoming distracted

from the Lord. And busyness rarely happens all at once. We don't wake up one morning and

decide to drift from the Lord. More often, our days gradually become so full that we stop making

room for him in the middle of them. And sometimes, the very things filling our schedules,

they're not even bad things.

They may be good responsibilities, meaningful ministry opportunities, family needs, or everyday tasks that truly matter. But when our lives become consumed with activity,

even good activity, it can begin to crowd out what matters most. Jesus gently warned Martha about this in Luke 10.

Martha, she wasn't distracted by sinful things. She was serving others and caring for gas.

She was trying to do what needed to be done. And yet Jesus lovingly told her, Martha, Martha,

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