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🗓️ 8 August 2024
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All of us are busy raising our kids. As your schedule gets crowded, how do you make time to pray and hear God speak to you? Jim Daly and Courtney Ellis share how learning to hear from God is possible, even when you're super busy. Then, Danny talks with John about how learning to hear from God has helped him be a better parent.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, sometimes we lead with busyness. It's almost like it's a spiritual gift or something. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm so busy, I'm so busy, and I know people who, when you ask how they're doing, they lead with how busy they are. I think the truth |
| 0:15.2 | though Danny is busyness can kind of rob our soul it can just wear us down. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny where to who heads up our parenting department Danny |
| 0:24.7 | parents are going to feel exhausted from time to time as I'm talking about this is there a |
| 0:29.7 | season in your life where you felt like I am just so ready for tomorrow. |
| 0:34.0 | Well you hit something really important and I think that that badge of honor of being |
| 0:37.2 | busy right I felt prey to that early in my in my young years knowing that busyness may mean that |
| 0:46.9 | you're being productive and that you're being effective and somehow there's worth |
| 0:51.1 | and value and it really is not. There's a high quality busyness and then there's a low quality business and then there's a low quality business. |
| 0:58.0 | And just because you're busy doesn't make it bad either and I remember a season that was too busy and that was a time when I was transitioning into this vice president role here, focus on the family. |
| 1:12.8 | I had a private practice. |
| 1:14.9 | I was getting a PhD, a teen kids, |
| 1:19.8 | and then I was coaching basketball at the time, |
| 1:24.2 | just ending that part of it, |
| 1:25.7 | but I remember just feeling completely draining and exhausted. |
| 1:27.4 | So you're doing a doctoral level course, |
| 1:30.0 | you're working full time, |
| 1:31.8 | you're assuming new responsibilities and leadership you're managing your |
| 1:36.2 | household you're showing up for your kids and you're coaching sports yeah it was |
| 1:40.8 | just I needed to say no and that's when I said sports are out. |
| 1:43.8 | I had to tell my son, hey, son, I've coached you for a long time |
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