It's so easy to blame our unsteady emotions on external factors like our job or our kids, isn't it?

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth wants to gently challenge you.

Why did you lash out at your child? Well, if he hadn't painted the living room furniture with butter or filled the dryer with water, you know, I never would have done that. What do you say? My three-year-old made me crazy.

Now, what happened is that your three-year-old acted in such a way that it brought to the surface and revealed the fact that

you were not thinking sound like. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss

Walgamuth, author of Adorned. For April 21st, 2026, I'm

Dana Gresh. As women, it can feel impossible to control our minds and emotions. We're so prone to let crazy feelings rule us,

and yet Titus II tells us it really is possible to be self-controlled.

And get this, not only is it possible, it's commanded for our own good.

God invites you to live as a self-controlled, stable, sensible woman. Do you want that? Me too. Today,

Nancy's going to help us catch a vision for what it looks like practically, and she's going to do that by

looking at one Greek word, Sophrone. Intrigued? Let's dive in.

You may remember an article that came out. I think it may have been the cover of a Time Magazine

issue in 1995 about the EQ factor. EQ stands for emotional quotient.

And this article was suggesting that emotional intelligence might be even more important than IQ. And it was based on a

research project that was done by a researcher at Stanford who took four-year-old children, one at a time,

into a room, and he showed these children a marshmallow. And he said to them, you can have this

marshmallow right now, but if you wait while I run an errand and don't eat

it till I get back, then when I get back, you can have two marshmallows. And then the researcher

put the marshmallow on the table, left the room for about 20 minutes, and they watched, there

was a window that you could just see in one way, and watch what the

children did while in that 20 minutes while the researcher was gone.

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