This is the Homemaking Foundations podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 191.

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. I am your host, Jamie Belmay. I am really glad you're

joining me because this is a fantastic topic that we need to be talking about here in January

as we're kicking off our year that we need to talk about all throughout the year and to

really, really be thinking about.

Okay, so today's episode's a little bit different. I am actually going to be playing a podcast

episode that I did at the beginning of last year because a lot of what I've been talking about

and really just personally I've been focusing on so far in 2019 is my spiritual disciplines and drawing closer to the Lord.

And my word for this year is faithfulness.

You can go back to episode 186 if you didn't listen to that one.

And then two episodes ago, we were talking about my goals for 2019.

The last episode I had Jason on, we were talking about more goals for 2019. The last episode I had Jason on, we were talking

about more goal setting and planning. And as I'm talking and thinking about all these different

things, there's one thing that this really, this whole topic comes back to. As Christians,

as those who love the Lord, all the wellspring of everything we're planning

and doing needs to come out of this one spot. And so funny enough, I was starting to plan the rest

of my episodes here for January. And this topic kept coming back to mind. And I'm like, yeah,

okay, you know, January is a perfect time to address this. I should think about it.

And all of a sudden I realized, you know what? Like, I must just be very cyclical in how I think because I thought, you know what?

I'm pretty sure at the beginning of last year, I addressed the same exact topic. So I went back, sure enough, in January, January 16th of 2018, I did a very similar topic. And I thought, I started listening

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