How the Garden Taught Me to Stay

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hey there, darlings welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast. In this episode, How the Garden Taught Me to Stay, I’m sharing some tender thoughts on restlessness. You know that feeling that makes you want to change everything when life gets too quiet, too slow, or too honest? The garden, in its steady and unhurried way, has taught me something different. It taught me to be present, to hold still when everything in me wanted to run. I talk about the difference between moving out of fear and choosing stillness from a place of peace, and ultimately the great fruit that steadfastness enables us to grow. Sometimes, staying put is the bravest, most faithful thing we can do.

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0:00.0	Hey there, darlands, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:09.8	I'm your host, Jessica Sauerz, my friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:13.4	And here on my podcast, I have started almost every episode with the same intro that says,
0:19.3	we talk about homesteading, growing food by raising animals and
0:23.6	growing gardens, preserving, preparing, and enjoying that food, as well as trying to live
0:28.4	more mindfully in relationship with each other and with the earth.
0:33.0	Today, I want to talk a little bit about the direction of this podcast, though.
0:37.4	As you may have noticed, after the last several episodes, I've come back in a new season from taking a break.
0:44.5	And I've been diving really deep into heart issues.
0:47.8	I've been talking about managing the garden of your heart and leaning heavily into that last bit of the intro,
0:55.5	living more mindfully in relationship with each other and with the earth.
0:59.6	And of course, this all happens in the frame of the homestead, in the gardening life.
1:04.8	I have learned so much from my farm and from my garden.
1:10.1	Over the last decade, over a decade of doing this regularly,
1:15.5	of growing our own food, I've completely transformed as a person. It has grown me tremendously.
1:23.1	And there are so many things that used to be obscure ideas that have become incredibly clear
1:28.6	within the context of tending the earth.
1:33.9	I have kind of gone in this direction without making some grand statement about it.
1:40.8	Not because I was trying to go in any direction at all but the reason I have this
1:45.8	space in the first place is that I love to be able to flesh out the ideas that I'm
1:51.7	having my walk with the Lord the things that I'm really hearing and applying in my
1:55.4	own life I've often called these long heartfelt talks with friends the combing out of the tangles of my heart.
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