RAR #257: You Can Be Refreshed by Your Reading Life

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At the start of a new year, we are overwhelmed with the phrase “New Year, new you!” And of course, we want to be better wives, better mothers, and better people.

This desire to improve ourselves filters into our reading lives, too. It’s easy to justify a lot of our reading if it helps us be better for our families and communities.

But what about reading for fun? What about reading fiction? When you’re a busy mom, is it worth it to carve out time to read just for the fun of it? And how would you even make that time?

But reading for delight is like stopping for water on a long, dusty hike. It’s a lifesource for us mamas. Today, RAR Community Manager Kelsey Murphy joins me to talk about how to be refreshed by your reading life.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

How stories nourish us in essential ways
Why you have to give yourself permission to quit books that aren’t working for you
The way reframing reading for pleasure will help you make time and model a rich reading life for your kids

Learn more about Sarah Mackenzie:

Find the rest of the show notes at: readaloudrevival.com/you-can-be-refreshed

To join us for the "Reading as Refreshment" Retreat on 1/31-2/1, join RAR Premium.

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0:00.0	Hey Sarah here. It seems like everyone starts the new year with goals for improvement. And if you're a reader, you might be trying to improve your reading life. As moms, we can often justify reading nonfiction that makes us better at what we do, right? Better moms, better homeschoolers, better at doing whatever work we're called to. But what does reading fiction
0:22.5	do for us? And does it deserve a place in our lives? Is it possible that reading fiction is one of
0:28.5	the primary ways we can find joy in our day-to-day lives and the inspiration to live it well
0:34.3	and to love God fully. We think so.
0:38.0	You're invited to Read Aloud Revivals Circle with Sarah retreat on Zoom at the end of January.
0:44.0	The retreat is called Reading as Refreshment.
0:47.5	That's R-A-R.
0:49.4	Get it?
0:50.5	Find out how to overcome readers' block, how to get to know your own reading taste, and
0:55.7	discover how to read classics and actually enjoy them.
0:59.6	We'll also make time for the best part of all, the reading, of course.
1:03.8	To join us, sign up for RAR Premium at rarprimium.com.
1:09.2	The retreat is January 31st and February 1st on Zoom and you don't want to miss it.
1:14.4	RAR premium.com. Everybody starts the new year wanting to improve themselves, right? And as moms,
1:21.8	I think we can justify a lot of our reading if it helps us become better wives and better mothers and better people
1:29.6	in general. But what about reading for fun? What about fiction reading? Is it worth it to make time,
1:36.5	if you are a very busy mother, to read for the fun of it, something that doesn't have a specific
1:43.3	purpose? And if it's worth it,
1:45.6	how do we carve out time for it? Today, we're going to talk all about it.
1:57.2	Welcome to the Read Aloud Revival. I'm Sarah McKenzie, and this is the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books.
2:06.1	And in this episode, we are going to talk all about how to be refreshed by your reading life.
2:11.7	It is, in fact, an invitation in this episode to be refreshed by your reading life.
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