Replay Wednesday-How to Handle Discouragement

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

2.4 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Replay Wednesday! This episode, "How to Handle Discouragement" from Season One continues to be one of the most frequently-downloaded episodes. No surprise. Discouragement is a common experience, and it has a lot of causes. Maybe you've lost a job and haven't been able to find another one yet. Or perhaps there's trouble in your family and it feels like the problems are multiplying. Or maybe there's something you have been longing for in your life and it hasn't come to pass, and you're wondering if it ever will? Discouragement can make our spirits heavy, but this is a temporary condition, not a permanent address. Find a comfy chair and pause for these helpful insights designed to encourage. There is hope. Even when we lose our own. "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." (Psalm 42:5) Helpful tools here in the Shop at Keep the Heart: Apply: Living What We Learn--Daily Devotional by Francie Taylor Elegant Olive Petal Snap Flap Bible--Great for travel! Encouragement for Young Women: A 30-Day Devotional for Teens by Charity Berkey & Team What Do I Have to Lose: Losing My Way and Finding God's by Janice Wolfe Ponder the Path: A 31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Replay Wednesday at Keep the Heart this episode. How to Handle Discouragement was a valuable
0:06.6	tool in season one. So many people were downloading this, and I'm not surprised because
0:12.3	discouragement is a common thing to go through. We all have those periods where our spirits are
0:18.1	heavy and we're wondering, is this ever going to get any better?
0:21.9	But we've also had the experience, haven't we, where we know things do turn, things do get better?
0:29.6	So if you're going through a season and it's been a bit long and your spirit feels heavy,
0:34.5	this episode's for you. If you're not in that season, but you're just listening
0:38.6	because you want to prepare, or maybe you want to help someone else who's downhearted,
0:43.0	this episode's also for you. Let's listen again. Have you mastered the plaster smile?
0:50.5	You know the one I'm talking about, don't you? It's that one we wear when our insides are not smiling,
0:56.9	but we don't want to reveal our true emotions.
1:00.5	Sometimes it's just easier to stage a cover-up, or so we think.
1:06.1	You know what?
1:06.8	It's very easy to hide discouragement,
1:09.6	but it's not necessarily a solution to pretend to be
1:12.8	fine when we're not.
1:21.4	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.
1:26.4	Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.
1:29.9	Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion. Now, back to today's important study.
1:39.6	In the tapestry poem by Corey Ten Boom, one of the verses says this, the dark threads are as needful
1:48.2	in the weaver's skillful hand as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern he has planned.
1:54.6	Discouragement is like a dark thread in the fabric of light, but what should we do when it's
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