When You Can't Rest Part 1: In Everyday Life

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Whether you have a newborn baby, kids in elementary school, or teenagers on the go, it's no surprise that rest can feel out of reach. We try to be intentional with our time, but let's face it, the parental interruptions are inevitable. A question we get asked quite frequently is how we manage to find a rhythm of rest amongst the busyness of parenting. In this episode, we begin a two-part series about rest, this one about how to develop practical strategies that aid you in a daily lifestyle of rest. We talk about:

Inviting God into the practice of rest and how to avoid taking your frustration out on your kids when you can't get rest
Why your body goes into survival mode when you're in a state of lack
How to establish mutual agreement with your spouse about rest in particularly difficult seasons like infancy
The blessing of ending each day in celebration over the good that happened

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0:00.0	true resting in the day today, and we'll get into the how here, I think it requires us to invite
0:06.2	God into every area of our lives, not just our rest. And it has to start there, because otherwise,
0:15.0	we will shame ourselves and we will get ourselves back on the treadmill of the to-do list
0:20.7	and we'll just get irritated
0:23.2	and frustrated. And that irritation and frustration will consistently come out on our kids or
0:27.4	our spouse because it's an offense against us that we didn't get our quiet time, that we
0:32.7	didn't get our prayer time, that I didn't get space with God. And I think space with God happens even when I'm in relationship with people.
0:43.0	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:48.8	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:59.4	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
1:02.0	We're talking about rest today.
1:04.4	Before we do, here is a word from our sponsors.
1:10.2	All right, Christy, we're talking.
1:11.6	It's spring break time for a lot of people, and I don't know if you've been able to.
1:16.6	There's a good chance because this week, the week that we're recording, a lot of you have already been on spring break.
1:21.6	I think spring break happens at the end of February to like middle of March.
1:25.6	We're releasing this probably when you're on your way back. We still haven't gone yet, so we're getting ready to do that. But I think I love
1:34.6	looking forward to spring break. I think this one week in this beginning part of the year coming
1:38.4	out of January and February, it's so busy. I mean, there's a lot always happening. But in this
1:43.4	process, we want to talk today about when you can't rest.
1:46.9	And I'm talking about, like, so today we're going to do a two-part series here because I think
1:53.0	rest is so critically important.
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