Clearing Out Your Space and Schedule (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 8 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. |
| 0:31.4 | Stuff can have effects on your spirit, effects on your emotional health, and living in this |
| 0:36.6 | cluttered place really |
| 0:38.5 | started to get to me. And the stuff was part of it. My overstuffed schedule was part of it. |
| 0:43.9 | But I began to feel like I almost couldn't breathe because my life had too much in it. |
| 0:48.8 | That's Courtney Ellis, describing the circumstances that led her away from anxiety to a spiritual journey, |
| 0:55.4 | where she and her family discovered a new, deeper relationship with God. |
| 1:00.0 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, Courtney is back with us to share more of her |
| 1:04.6 | rather remarkable story. |
| 1:06.3 | We're so glad you've joined us. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:08.6 | John, I so appreciated Courtney's vulnerability last time. |
| 1:11.8 | Just talking about things that she and her husband, Daryl, have changed to actually make more space for God. |
| 1:18.2 | And that's a good thing. |
| 1:19.7 | And everybody resonates with the idea of unclutter, right? |
| 1:24.5 | The title of the book. |
| 1:26.0 | How do I make more space in my life by getting rid of stuff |
| 1:29.2 | I'd never use or rarely use to my schedule, to even technology we talked about last time, and |
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