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 friends I'm Marcie Farrell from thankful homemaker.com and you're listening

into an episode that has been on my heart to share for a few

weeks now as we continue to find much of our country and really world still in a lockdown

mode due to the coronavirus.

I titled this episode, Encouragement in times of a pandemic.

This was a hard title to discern, so I ended up sticking with this one.

But really, what you're getting from me today are thoughts

and things that I personally have been wrestling with this season, ways I've been encouraged

to areas I'm struggling with and some ideas and helps that I've heard and put into practice along the way.

I want to lay this out here. I don't have it all together or figured out and just for the record I do have my own

opinions and my thoughts on the situation and you may pick up on them and your

opinions may totally differ from mine and that is okay.

But what we do need to agree on as believers

as those of us who are in Christ and have repented and put our faith in Jesus

Christ alone for salvation is the Gospel.

We need to remember that there is only one way to heaven.

It's appointed once for man to die and then comes the judgment. We're in a season where people are

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