Vacations are an incredible reprieve from the daily grind until you have to take them with kids.

Then it seems like the daily grind just follows you to another location that you had to shell money out for.

Today's episode, we will learn five tips on how to take a family vacation so that no matter the age of your kids,

you too can recreate as you recreate on your vacation.

Welcome to the Sheproof's Faithful Podcast, episode number six, truth and encouragement

to live out gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your

host, Lauren Lushak. Hey everyone, thank you so much for joining me on episode number six. This podcast

is all about the transformative work of the gospel, reaching into

every aspect of our lives. It's the gospel working in our hearts to change who we are and how we

live to be Christ-centered and God glorifying, and it's work that can only be done by the power

of God. And gospel-centered living includes vacations. Yes, can I get an amen?

Vacations are a gift to be able to get away from work and the hustle and the grind

in order to have rest and restorative rest and also to have fun.

There's this verse in James that says that every good and perfect gift comes from God

and every time I'm on a float

somewhere and some body of water, like a lake, ocean pool, you name it. I quote that verse to myself.

I'm here on my float and I'm like, man, this is a good and perfect gift of floating on a raft in a

water in the sunshine, in the summertime. I really am smitten with summer

vacation. But then I had kids, and they are small kids, and they're very needy children, like

feed me, wipe me needy. And although my three-year-old has discovered how to open the freezer and get

ice cream out, which I totally count that as breakfast, right? I mean, dairy, dairy, that's a

breakfast food, right? My kids, they're little, and it makes vacationing a little more tricky

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