This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 177.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast.

And for those of you in the United States, as you're listening to this, happy Thanksgiving.

We are almost there celebrating an awesome holiday here in the U.S.

I know some of you in other countries have already celebrated Thanksgiving or you don't

even have a Thanksgiving.

So if you do not have Thanksgiving or it's already passed or you're listening to this in the future, no problem.

Because what we're talking about today is giving thanks. And of course, this is a great time of year

to talk about it with Thanksgiving in a couple days. But giving thanks is something we actually really need to practice all the time.

And there's a lot that goes on when we talk about Thanksgiving and giving thanks,

and some of it is very surface level, I feel like, of, yep, just, you know, rattle off a quick platitude. Thank you. You know,

you just, it's very surface level. So what I want to talk about today is choosing to be thankful

in troubled times. Because it's one thing to be thankful when everything's working well,

when we've got plenty of money in the bank, when everybody's health is doing good, when everything is really good and we can say, oh, Lord, thank you.

We've got so many good things. Thank you. Now, I do think when everything's going well, we forget to be thankful. So that is a struggle in and of itself. But how do we be thankful when trouble hits? When the hard times come,

it is a lot harder when that happens. So today we're talking about choosing to be thankful and

troubled times. Now, this episode that I'm about to play is actually an episode from two years ago that I played on the podcast.

So many of you have probably listened to it, but it has been two years now since we published

this.

And so I am going to be republishing it because I started thinking about, again, funny enough,

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