Unmet Holiday Expectations: Don’t Let Them Ruin You

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This Thanksgiving I was met with–let’s call it a learning opportunity as pretty early on in my day it was clear that the expectations in my head were not how my day was going to pan out. Let’s talk about what happened and what I learned from it.

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0:00.0	The show is sponsored today by my friends at Not Consumed. Family Bible studies are such an
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0:39.1	Well, hey, everybody.
0:39.9	This is Heidi St. John.
0:41.2	Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast.
0:43.8	I'm going to spend some time today talking about a direction that I think God would have us go in 2025 and reflecting a little bit on Thanksgiving.
0:53.2	I'm excited that you're here. Stick around. I think
0:55.2	you're going to be encouraged. Thank you guys for tuning in today. Some of you read a post that I put on my Facebook page the morning after
1:14.1	Thanksgiving. So I want to say it was like four in the morning and I could not sleep. You
1:19.4	guys ever felt that way? You just, you wake up and you just, you can't sleep. And I, so many
1:24.2	things going through my head. And as my kids have gotten older and our lives have changed a lot, I find that I'm,
1:32.1	I do a little bit more reflecting, but also I do a whole lot more praying.
1:35.9	And so almost every day I'm praying with my husband.
1:38.8	And it takes us a bit of time because, you know, we're praying for children and grandchildren and babies that are
1:45.9	on the way and just so many things that God is doing in our family. But on Thanksgiving,
1:53.6	you guys, I'm not going to lie. I had a hard time. I woke up that morning, one of our daughters
1:58.6	got called into work, and who doesn't love to hear that on
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