Fan Mail Friday: Choosing Faithfulness in Every Season
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In today’s Fan Mail Friday, I’m answering questions from listeners navigating hard seasons with courage and conviction. We’ll talk about homeschooling, parenting, caregiving, comparison, and learning to rest without quitting. This episode is an encouragement to stay faithful and trust that God is still at work, no matter the season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Heidi St. John podcast. Today is Fan Mail Friday, one of my favorite |
| 0:05.9 | episodes that I record here at the show. I've been doing Fan Mail Fridays now with you guys for |
| 0:10.6 | about nine years. And I just want to say thanks for sending in such thoughtful questions. |
| 0:16.5 | If you've got questions that you would like to have addressed here at the show, the way to do that |
| 0:20.3 | is to go to Heidi St.john.com forward slash fan mail Friday. |
| 0:24.6 | It's really important that we encourage each other, especially as the Apostle Paul talked about in 1st Corinthians, as we see the day of the Lord approaching. |
| 0:33.3 | As things get crazier and crazier around us, and as the headlines get more salacious |
| 0:38.7 | and our trust in institutions becomes weaker and weaker, that we really anchor ourselves |
| 0:45.1 | in the Word of God. |
| 0:46.6 | And so I want to start today with something that St. Augustine understood deeply. |
| 0:51.5 | Most of our struggles are not about loving the wrong things. They're about |
| 0:56.6 | loving the right things in the wrong order. And when our loves are disordered, everything else |
| 1:03.4 | follows. Our parenting, our marriages, church decisions, education choices, all those things. |
| 1:09.0 | When our loves are rightly ordered and we put God first, love the Lord your God, with all your choices, all those things. When our loves are rightly ordered, and we put God first, |
| 1:12.2 | love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength, |
| 1:17.6 | then what the Lord's entrusted to us becomes the lifeblood of the rest of our loves. And that's when |
| 1:25.6 | we find clarity. And that's when we find clarity even when |
| 1:29.1 | the obedience to the thing that God's asking us to do is costly. And it's important that we be |
| 1:34.1 | honest. And we saw this happen a week and a half ago in Minnesota. When you're starting to see |
| 1:41.8 | people disrupting church services, things like that, |
| 1:44.2 | I think it's going to continue, you guys. Following Jesus, by the way, has always come at a cost. |
| 1:49.0 | Always. And nothing that's worth doing in this life is going to be easy. I don't care if it's |
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