Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and

blessing to each other and the role God has called us to as women.

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So grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit

as we talk about how God's word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.

Hello friend I'm Marcy Farrell from thankful homemaker.com and as always I am so grateful to get a few minutes of our day with you.

So my husband and I have been reading through Sinclair Ferguson's

devotional to seek and to save daily reflections on the road to the

cross. There's short devotionals and this book was released with the season of

Easter coming upon us but it honestly is a great read any time of the year. We are not

going to finish it together by Easter so it is also a good good book to read alone or

as together as a couple or as a family. There's some reflection thoughts at the end of every

devotion and they just make some great discussion starters. Okay so the reason I'm

bringing this up is because, well many of them, but one in particular, one of the past readings was a bit convicting. I feel like I can write a podcast about every reading, but this particular one reflected a lot of my Martha

personality. The Lord keeps chipping away with me on this one but at times I can be

one of those people who desires to get things done, get them done right, and I can get overwhelmed in the process agitated and forget that the quote,

one thing is necessary.

Let me set the scene here quickly for you.

So we are all very familiar with the Mary Martha

moment in Luke chapter 10.

If you're not, pause it, go take a read real quick. But Mary is sitting

at the Lord's feet and she's listening to his teaching and Martha is busy in the kitchen I'm assuming the kitchen she's

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