FAH in 5 Minutes: Worship in the Chaos

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

How do you manage to fit in quiet time with the Lord as a busy parent? Especially when you have young kids who constantly demand your attention?

In reality, it will not happen unless you intentionally schedule it in your day. In this 5 minute episode, Josh and Christi share practical ways to worship in the middle of chaos.

Some highlights include:

* Playing worship music in your home.* Praying without seizing.* Spending an hour of time with the Lord in both the morning and the evening.* Having the outlook that you "get" to do what you do.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Famous at Home in Five Minutes.
0:04.7	Practical insights for creating a family of connection, celebration, and purpose.
0:10.3	Welcome back to Famous Home in Five Minutes.
0:12.5	Today we're talking about worshiping in the chaos.
0:15.1	I think if you live in the 21st century, if you are a spouse,
0:19.6	especially if you're a parent, we're very aware
0:22.1	of the chaos that we face on the daily. And often it wakes up before us. And so it's been hard,
0:29.8	especially for me as a woman who like, I used to wake up early. I'd have quiet time with the
0:35.1	Lord and it meant so much to me. It just set me up for my day
0:37.5	and then becoming a parent that changed really quickly. And now back in baby season, who is up
0:44.5	very early, it's just hard. It's hard to find time to be still with the Lord, to read the word,
0:50.8	to journal, to pray, to worship. And we've realized this question comes up again and again and again.
0:57.6	How do I do this?
0:58.6	Because it's this desire we want to, but not knowing how to fit it in in our days.
1:04.4	Yes.
1:04.7	And I think one of the best ways to do this is starting your day and ending your day for the one
1:10.1	hour before you go to bed and the one hour
1:11.9	when you wake up, not turning on your phone, not looking at your phone, just spending time,
1:17.1	turning on worship music.
1:18.4	Because a lot of times we are now up at the same time as our son, as our infant, because
1:23.3	he's up early.
1:25.1	But the other way to combat that is to go to bed early, right? So you go to bed
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