Well, I don't know when you're going to hear this episode, but it's initially launching

online on a Monday, commonly a day off for pastors.

And we have a question from a state-home mom who writes this, hello, Pastor John, I'm

a state-home mom to three darling daughters under five and also a pastor's wife as well.

Like most pastors, my husband takes Mondays off to recharge.

But I find there's never a day off I can take off from laundry, dishes, cleaning, etc.

The work never ends for me and I find this to be a challenge for a lot of moms who are

feeling burnt out.

Without questioning the value of our husbands day off, should moms get a day off too?

Should we try?

Or is this a selfish request?

Whether it's a selfish request, I can't tell because I don't know your heart.

God does, but it certainly doesn't have to be a selfish request.

And I don't assume it is.

It may be the same as the question that my wife and I posed at church and with the staff

at home during my pastorate over and over.

How do we find?

How does the staff find?

How do we as a couple find the pace to finish the race?

That's the way we put it.

The marriage race, the parenting race, they are marathons, not one hundred meter dashes.

Noel and I have been running the marriage marathon for fifty years, as of last December.

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