For Overwhelmed Christian Dads
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
If you feel like you’re drowning right now… this one’s for you.
Trying to follow Jesus with integrity.
Trying to love your wife well.
Trying to disciple your kids.
Trying to provide and carry the weight of responsibility.
That’s four heavy bags already.
And then the world keeps asking for more.
More opinions.
More commitments.
More distractions.
More “opportunities.”
In today’s episode, we talk about why it’s okay to say, “My hands are full.”
Why you don’t have to carry every bag handed to you.
And why saying no might be one of the most faithful things you do.
Strong families begin with healed men.
Sometimes healing looks like limits.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a man who's super stressed out in life right now, or maybe you feel overwhelmed or |
| 0:04.2 | like you're drowning or you're juggling too many things, this analogy might be helpful for you. |
| 0:09.2 | And I just want to say right off the bat, I know that it sounds way more profound in my brain |
| 0:14.0 | than it does as I'm actually saying it. But I think the simplicity is actually where the power |
| 0:18.9 | is. So yesterday I went to the grocery store with my |
| 0:21.5 | kids. We got a bunch of groceries at Sam's Club and we came home. And so I'm trying to as a man |
| 0:27.5 | have a test of my manhood by seeing how many bags I can carry into the house to make the fewest |
| 0:33.3 | trips as possible in and out of the house. And so I'm carrying as many bags and boxes as I can. |
| 0:39.9 | And as I'm going in the house, my daughter, my four-year-old yells, Daddy, can you grab my backpack? |
| 0:44.8 | And I just say, no, baby, my hands are full. I want you to kind of paint that picture in your |
| 0:49.8 | brain as you think through this analogy for your stressed out life, you're overwhelmed to life. |
| 0:54.5 | Imagine that you have four bags in your hand. |
| 0:56.6 | One bag, it represents your own personal life as man. |
| 1:00.8 | In another bag, you have what represents your marriage. |
| 1:03.5 | In another bag, you as a dad, and then another bag, everything you're holding for your |
| 1:08.0 | work and providing for your family. |
| 1:10.2 | So you have these four bags and your |
| 1:11.6 | hands are pretty full. And as you're walking in the house, your neighbor says, hey man, can you help me come move this mattress? And you're like, dude, I'd love to. But unfortunately, my hands are full right now. I'm sorry, I can't help you. And then as you almost get to the door, you look down and there's a $5 bill, and that seems very tempting, but in order to grab that $5 bill, you'd have to set down everything |
| 1:29.3 | else in your hand. I know this analogy. look down and there's a $5 bill. And that seems very tempting. But in order to grab that $5 |
| 1:27.8 | bill, you'd have to set down everything else in your hand. I know this analogy is so simple. |
| 1:32.5 | It's probably so simple in elementary. It's laughable. And I know I've talked about this even |
| 1:37.1 | recently on the podcast, but I've just been feeling this so much lately. If you are a Christian man, |
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