Welcome to Set Apart Daughters, a proud member of Apart Daughter's podcast, where you will be empowered, encouraged, and equipped to become the woman that God has created you to be.

I'm your host, Denise Copeland,

and I'm glad that you're joining me on this week's episode. How are you doing today, sister?

What has been going on? I pray that you've been doing well, that you've been working from a place

of rest and abiding in Jesus alone. And today's episode, we're going to be discussing

just that, just rest. We're going to be discussing about being set apart for rest. I know the past

few weeks, you know, caring for a newborn. I've had some pretty amazing in-laws that have decided to watch my toddlers for a few days and my husband was out of town for a men's retreat.

And so it just left me and the baby at the house by myself.

And let me tell you, it has been amazing getting some well and much needed rest.

Although you may be thinking, how do you get rest with a newborn?

Like waking up all hours of the night and just, you know, changing diapers all the time and feedings and keeping up with myself in the house.

Well, let me tell

you when you have two other kiddos running around that literally love to play, love to get

into two cabinets and just basically destroy the house. When you have toddlers around and you

have a newborn, you'll know that when you take two,

it's literally like you're on a vacation all over again. Like it's like honeymoon phase. Anyways,

like I've been enjoying, I'm just so grateful for people that God has provided in my life and that

blessed us. We're just watching our toddlers while I get to care for my newborn. And the husband

is not even here either. So it's like, oh, wow. It's like amazing. I do miss him, though. I miss

my husband. But, you know, it's nice that I get to bond with Samuel and get some rest and sleep as

long as I want. I can sleep all day with Samuel if I even

wanted to. And I just get to rest, right, without any demands screaming on my ears all day. So I'm

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