Turn Your Waiting Room Into A Classroom

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Welcome to episode 68 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

Today, I'm talking about the challenges of waiting for dreams to come true and how we can use these periods of waiting to grow. It’s a topic close to my heart, and I hope it resonates with you.

Waiting can feel frustrating, but it's also an opportunity to learn and grow. Instead of seeing waiting as a setback, think of it as a classroom where you can gain valuable lessons. As I often say, "Turn your waiting room into your classroom."

Life often places us in "waiting rooms," whether it’s waiting for a new home, a job, or another important dream of yours. It's crucial to make the most of these times. Use this period to refine your dream, develop new skills, and appreciate the journey. As scripture tells us "Whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with very much" (Luke 16:10).

Reflect on this: How can you turn your waiting room into a classroom? Embrace the time you have now to prepare for the future you want. Waiting is not wasted time; it's a chance to grow and get ready for what's next. "If you are willing to work on yourself in the waiting room of your life, you can't lose!"

Thanks for joining me today. Remember, every waiting room is a classroom in disguise. 🌻

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:13.4	I am your host, Jessica Sowers.
0:15.2	My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:17.6	And here on my podcast, we talk about all things, food growing, homesteading,
0:22.6	raising animals, growing a garden, preparing, preserving, and enjoying that food, as well as just
0:29.6	trying to live a little more mindfully in relationship with each other and with the earth. So I'm
0:34.3	sitting here at my laptop with my microphone, my headphones on,
0:39.9	obviously, recording this podcast, but I'm actually somewhere where I'm not usually. Normally,
0:45.8	I have this all set up at my office downtown and I go during the day. I do my recording. I do a lot
0:51.4	of writing down there and editing and just different things where I need a
0:54.6	quiet space to think. But my children are normally in school. My kids go to a really, really small,
1:01.3	and by very small, I mean there's between 10 and 12 kids per graduating class. I think one of their
1:06.9	classes has 16 in it, and that's like the largest one and um very small school
1:11.9	private school here very close to where we live uh that school was a huge blessing to us when we
1:19.0	moved here because previously we'd homeschooled i love homeschooling and i'm not going to say that
1:24.3	i won't ever homeschool again i just know that for this season this was was the right thing for us, but I miss my kids so much. So in the summer, when I have them home,
1:33.6	I don't like to be gone. You know, I don't like to go up to my office to work. I typically work
1:38.8	around their schedules and the podcasts over the summer will largely be recorded very early in the morning or late in the evening after dark when I can come out and I'm sitting in my RV right now talking to you guys with my big window open.
1:53.9	It just rained and the farm is looking very quenched.
1:59.0	It's extremely humid outside. I walked out and I thought, my goodness,
2:03.0	I can taste the air right now in a really palpable way because when it rains and in the summer
2:09.9	here, obviously that happens. Now, I have been gone from home this last week. Our daughter, Malia, moved here to South Carolina,
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