Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing to each other in the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you've stopped by, so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit as we talk about how God's word impacts

every area of our lives as Christian women. Hello, friend. I'm Marcy Farrell from Thankful Homemaker,

and I'm so glad to be with you today. Today, we're going to talk about something that hits close

to home for many of us, and it's learning to think the best of others. This is an area where I

know I need continual growth, and if you're anything like me, it might be an area you need some help

with too. So as Christian women, whether in our roles as wives, mothers, homemakers, neighbors,

friends, members of our local church, our relationships are shaped by how we think about and respond to

one another. Scripture tells us that love believes all things and hopes all things. That's 1st

Corinthians 137. But what does that really mean in our daily lives? Does it mean we ignore reality,

that we never exercise discernment, or does it point us to a deeper

call to love others as Christ has loved us? We're going to impact that today, and we're going to

explore not only the why thinking the best of others can be so difficult at times, but also how we can

live it out in our marriages with our children, in our church families. And my hope is that by the

end of this episode, we'll all be encouraged to ask the Lord to search our hearts and transform the way we

love others. And before we dive in, I want to mention two most excellent upcoming conferences I want to share

with you. The first one is for the men in your life. And I know some of you ladies were

able, because you're a Midwesterner like me, to attend our word first ladies conference that my

local church held. And we had Michelle Leslie as our guest speaker last year. And it was such a

blessing to learn alongside one another, get to spend time with so many other ladies from like-minded

churches. We had 140 women in

attendance from over 38 churches. We have another one coming up in 2026, so I will keep you updated

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