How do I balance work and rest? | Episode 166
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Go + Tell Gals Podcast! This season on the podcast, we want to answer the questions you’re already asking. In this week’s episode, we are tackling a necessary question as we march on mission: How do I balance work and rest? Jess and GATG team member, Anna, sit down and strategize on how we can hold work and rest in balance with one another.
This is a struggle for most women and changes each season of our lives. If we are living with a kingdom perspective, we can see that we work out of a place of rest and not the other way around; and that’s good news, friends!
We are women who get to work and get to rest in the name of Jesus. Rest is not lazy and is so productive for our souls. May we prayerfully be in tune with the Holy Spirit inside of us to pay attention to our own places of fatigue, to figure out what kind of exhausted we are and to try to rest at those places to move the kingdom forward. Amen?
He is mighty in you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jess Connolly, and you are listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | We exist to equip and encourage kingdom women who are using their God-given gifts for the good of others and the glory of God. |
| 0:23.1 | If you are a mom, a student, an artist, a doctor, we are hoping that this episode will leave you |
| 0:30.1 | encouraged and ready to run. We're so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Go and Tell Gals podcast. I'm Jess Connolly, and today I have my dear friend Anna Vickerson here with me. |
| 0:46.9 | Hello, friends. We're thankful to be joining you today as we talk about work and rest. |
| 0:57.0 | Listen, we like work. |
| 0:58.0 | We do. |
| 0:59.0 | And we like rest. |
| 1:00.0 | We do. |
| 1:01.0 | I appreciate your voice in that. |
| 1:05.0 | We do. |
| 1:07.0 | So in planning for this episode, we know this is a question a lot of women struggle with, whether you are using your God-given gifts in some kind of small business or ministry, whether you work like a more standard job where you get to serve people or help people or lead people or work under people, whether you're a stay-at-home mom or a student. We just know this is a real struggle for a lot of us trying to figure out how do we balance |
| 1:31.7 | these two sides of our life? |
| 1:33.3 | How do we be good workers and be good resters? |
| 1:36.4 | And you and I, I don't know that we land on different ends of the spectrum in work in Rustana, |
| 1:41.9 | but I would say we have different versions of struggle here. |
| 1:45.9 | Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. Okay, I once heard someone tell me that they were a quantity time mom, |
| 1:51.9 | and I thought that was such a good description, and I was like, okay, tell me more. And she was like, |
| 1:56.9 | well, I'm a quantity time mom, meaning like, I just kind of always want to be around my kids. |
| 2:00.9 | It's not that I always want to be doing super special or intense things with them, but I just, |
| 2:06.0 | I always want to be there. I want to physically be there all the time. And you might think I'm |
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