Clearing Out Your Space and Schedule (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It began with panic attack about having “too much” stuff in her home and schedule — prompting Courtney toward a spiritual journey of saying “no” to shopping, screens, and busyness. As a result, she and her family have more capacity to hear from the Lord and spend time with others.
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| 0:00.0 | Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours? |
| 0:07.3 | That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called |
| 0:12.1 | Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges |
| 0:17.7 | that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally. |
| 0:22.8 | So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.5 | I would say the clutter in my life is probably social media that tends to be so |
| 0:36.2 | addicting to just continuously mindlessly scrolling. |
| 0:40.3 | Either laundry that's not folded or all the things that I need to do that come into my head |
| 0:45.8 | before I go to sleep. For me, clutter is whenever my room is super messy and I get a lot of trash |
| 0:52.2 | left in my car and I begin to feel like my life's cluttered |
| 0:55.7 | so I have to clean out my car and clean my whole entire room and pick up every single piece of |
| 0:59.2 | laundry. Well I have too many pots in my kitchen so we had to go and buy a new shelf. |
| 1:05.0 | Well I wonder if you can relate your schedule, your home, your job, even your car. There's |
| 1:10.3 | just way too much stuff and it can feel overwhelming. |
| 1:13.9 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly will help you purge, downsize, and simplify. |
| 1:20.3 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:22.3 | John, I'm already smiling because everybody knows how much I love this topic when it comes to my garage. |
| 1:27.2 | So I'm proud to say, |
| 1:29.3 | Ironically, I just finished cleaning it. |
| 1:32.3 | So I'm happy. |
| 1:33.3 | Was it because you knew we were going to come up on this? |
| 1:35.3 | No, not at all. |
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