This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 250.

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 my podcast. We are in the middle of a really awesome

series called Finding Joy in Your Home. And today we're talking about the importance of rest

and why this makes such a big impact on us when we are, well, for all of life,

and when we're looking for finding more joy, more peace within our homes, within our

families, within our life. So if you're just tuning in, if this is your first episode,

please come listen along because you're going to be able to fit in just well.

But if you've missed the beginning of this series, we've done four or five episodes so far,

you can go back in the archives and find those and catch up because everything we're talking about is kind of a cohesive.

You're getting basically like a course here in the podcast, which is cool. So this cohesive thought process on finding joy in your home. And this episode in particular is an important

one. We've kind of been hinting at it throughout. But today we're going to really talk about

some spiritual, biblical reasons behind

rest and then some really practical ways to carry that out. And that's my favorite thing to do,

is take a look at what does the Bible say, what does God want for us to do, and then how do we

practically fit this into our day? So rest has been a big topic on my heart and just within our family in this

last year in particular. And I feel like God's been teaching us a lot of things about really

slowing down, creating intentional margin, intentional rest. But it's really hard.

It is actually really hard.

You say like, oh, get more rest.

Like, okay, what does that actually look like?

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