Supporting Dreams as Homestead Husbands

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Welcome to episode 70 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

It's been a busy season, and I've missed sharing with y'all. Thanks for your patience as I got the podcast back up and running for y'all to enjoy.

Today’s episode is for the husbands out there, focusing on supporting our spouses’ dreams. Joining me is my friend Mark from Covington, GA. His wife Destiny and their four kids just recently moved onto their first homestead, and we talk all about our journey's as husbands in this lifestyle with wives that have big dreams.

Mark shares his journey from traveling frequently for ministry during the early years of his marriage to supporting his wife’s dream of homesteading. Initially, they were so focused on ministry that homesteading seemed impossible. However, the pandemic shifted their lives, and Mark realized it was time to champion his wife’s dream after years of her supporting his.

Similarly, Jeremiah started in ministry, which didn’t turn into a stable career. Through the process of supporting each other, we finally got land, and our dream of homesteading became our focus. The choice to stay home came when we realized how much of our children’s young lives we were missing. When Jess decided to pursue YouTube full-time, she did not pressure me. Watching her thrive in her convictions about homesteading made me realize I could dream too. Jess helped unlock my own calling within me. Once my heart was in the right place, it unlocked so much success and partnership in our lives.

This isn’t a condemnation of ministry but an explanation of how our focus on different goals has evolved over the years. Our current role feels like ministry because our heart posture is in the right place and we're clear in our goals.

Ultimately marriage success is built on mutual humility, allowing each partner to support the other's dreams. Fulfillment isn't external; it's within you and your marriage. When your spouse's dreams come true, there's a cycle where your dreams can come true too.

Thanks for joining us today! Remember that supporting other’s dreams can create a fulfilling life and partnership. 🌱

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. It's Jeremiah again, and today we're going to be talking about something pretty deep, I think.
0:22.8	As far as you husbands out there, if you're listening, after your wife's told you hey you should listen to this this one's
0:26.2	for you so we're gonna be talking about supporting somebody else's dreams
0:29.7	supporting their vision I've got a guest with me today his name is Mark
0:33.8	Castro he's out of Covington Georgia say hello Mark
0:37.1	hello everybody so we are going to be kind of name is Mark Casto. He's out of Covington, Georgia. Say hello, Mark. Hello, everybody.
0:39.1	So we are going to be kind of bouncing off of each other because Mark definitely has a lot of
0:45.9	experience in supporting other people's visions and dreams, but as far as homesteading and gardening,
0:51.4	they're kind of at the beginning of their journey.
1:01.7	So I like bringing people on that are at different places than I am because it helps me think and consider things that I'm not considering.
1:05.0	And it's always good just to hear other people's perspectives.
1:07.8	Sure.
1:08.7	Yeah, because I'm definitely out in the deep here.
1:11.6	Destiny and I both were born in West Virginia. We've known each other since we were in the
1:15.6	seventh grade. She didn't like me all those years, but I eventually won her, so it worked out.
1:22.1	But she grew up on land, and being in West Virginia, it's not all rule you can actually live in a being in West Virginia, there's not, it's not all rule. You can actually live in a city
1:30.9	in West Virginia. So I lived in the Charleston area, so I was more of a city boy. But she grew up with
1:37.4	chickens, goats, you know, gardens. I did not. And on top of that, I grew up in a pastor's home.
1:47.3	So I was like literally in the church almost every day of my life.
1:53.7	And so that's been my reality for most of my life because I watched my parents do ministry for years.
1:59.9	And I said, never going to do what they did
2:02.1	and then I had a moment with the Lord when I was 18 and now I do exactly what they did in a sense
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