Jeremiah Burroughs, a Puritan pastor in the 1600 says,

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit,

freely submitting to and taking complacency in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Today we're going to talk about things that are not in opposition and are in

opposition to a quiet, contented heart. Welcome to the Sheproves Faithful Podcast, episode

number 204. truth and encouragement to live

gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak. Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast

and welcome to the year 22. I am so thankful that you are here. Now, most of my shows are based on things that I'm learning

or going through and it helps me think through the truths as I share them. So they're a great

blessing to me and I hope they'll be a great blessing to my children, my daughters as they grow

and hopefully we'll get to hear some of these recorded messages, but also I hope that they're

encouraging to you guys too. And one of the difficult things about having a podcast and recording

them week to week, I don't record them all at once. I don't have a studio where I just plow through

them. I'm like, oh, it's Monday night. It's time to record something. That's what I do,

rain or shine in my personal life. So that's kind of

tricky because I try to get on the mic no matter what. And during this podcast, I've suffered two

miscarriages. We suffered an egg topic pregnancy all while recording the podcast. I've recorded

episodes last year when we sold our home and moved when we were moving

our church and our co-op. It just was a little crazy. I've recorded it while we've had newborns

in the house. So I am so grateful to do it. But sometimes it's really hard when my heart is

heavy or sad to get on and do a podcast because it's just you have to kind of halt

life. And it's actually been a great blessing because it causes me to go study the word,

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