Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. I am so glad you're joining me today. We are continuing our practical series within the home,

within homemaking, learning how we can, in very practical ways, run and manage our home in a way

that is bringing honor and glory to the Lord. And I have been having a lot of fun turning to these

more practical topics.

We talked in the last episode about keeping your marriage fun and growing. And we had a lot of

good discussion about that in the community, a good topic to chat about. We talked, some of

this stuff is kind of random. We talked about top moving tips. And we did a practical

homemaking Q&A and just kind of some random

practical topics. So today is maybe a little bit random, but also a topic that goes along

with a lot of what we talk about and a lot of actually what we're going to be moving into

this summer and even into the fall, there's going to be be we're going to have a lot of really fun teaching and

some things going on around this topic um but within the community this week we had a really

great discussion on being natural of taking care of our bodies of making an idol, of figuring out where do we glory,

where, where is the line at which we are glorifying God with this conversation? And it's something

that I personally have deeply wrestled with. Because if I'm going to do anything in my life,

if I'm in a poor time and energy, money, resources, any of that, if I'm going to do that in

my life, I want to know why. I want to have a purpose behind it. And so a lot of you guys know

that being, I don't know how you want to say it. I'm very crunchy if you want to use the popular

term. But being more into natural things, caring about the food that my family eats,

cooking things from scratch, you know what I mean. Well, that whole kind of realm is something

that I have grown to be very, very passionate about in recent years. But when we are considering

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