Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and

blessing to each other and the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you stop 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.com and I'm so glad I get to

spend a few moments with you today.

So whether you're driving or doing laundry or washing dishes or maybe you're just

getting to sit and listen, I pray that today's episode encourages you and helps you in those moments

when we all, or at least some of us speaking from experience, get to feeling overwhelmed

with the tasks before us.

This is podcast episode 80 and it's titled a reminder from Elizabeth Elliot to just do the next thing.

And this podcast episode is for me as much as anyone,

because I have a heart that too easily gets overwhelmed

when my task list is longer looking

than the hours in my day.

Just ask my husband.

He's pretty familiar with those moments. So we're talking

about a favorite saying of mine from one of my favorite Christian women and we're

obviously talking about Elizabeth Elliot today and her famous saying and we're going to chat a little bit more about where it came from in a bit

but the saying is one that you've heard me repeat many times here at the blog and podcast.

It's one my daughter's heard me repeat. It's one I've repeated to

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