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Finding Joy in Your Home

When you feel like you’re failing – Hf #281

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever have those days where you feel like a failure? When things just don't seem to work and you get so discouraged? I was having one of those days today and decided to turn that into a little episode on encouragement...Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: You can find important links & info below. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Bible study recommendation: Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin Our sponsor: visit Ooak Dental on Amazon!

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0:00.0

This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Valmay, episode number 281.

0:06.2

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and

0:11.7

encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home. And now your host from youngwifesguide.com,

0:17.6

Jamie Belmay. Hey, ladies, welcome back to my podcast. Today, we are talking about a really

0:27.2

fun topic. We're talking about what do you do when you feel like you are failing? And if you're

0:36.8

listening to this episode, I know you've had a lot of times of feeling like a

0:41.7

failure because I struggle with that and I hear from so many of you who struggle with the same

0:47.7

thing. So we're going to do a little bit of encouragement today because this is something that

0:53.0

I was actually thinking about

0:54.2

today as I was sitting on the couch feeling like a total failure. So that's what we're talking about.

1:00.9

And then in a little while, we will hear from the sponsor for today's episode, Oak Dental.

1:06.8

But for now, let's just go ahead and jump straight in. So I have a two and a half week old.

1:15.2

Yeah, I have a, I have a newborn. And today, I was sitting on the couch and the kids were running around crazy.

1:23.3

By the way, we're also under quarantine still here in California. Can't really go anywhere and do anything. So there's that. And I was, I was just feeling like a failure. The laundry was

1:35.4

completely piled up. I was looking at the baby who's been a really good sleeper. I'm actually

1:40.8

really thankful, but I was thinking, oh, he's going to wake up any minute to feed. The other kids were kind of running around. And I just had one of those moments where I was like,

1:49.0

everything is falling apart. Like, you know, just one of those like sad moments. And I started thinking

1:56.9

about tonight's podcast episode. And as I was thinking about it, I realized,

2:03.2

hmm, if I were to tell anybody else out loud that I feel like a total failure because I'm

2:09.6

sitting here with a two and a half week old, we're under quarantine, life is crazy.

2:16.2

They would say, Jamie, you have a two and a half week old you're under quarantine life is

2:22.1

crazy you got to give yourself grace and i'm like oh like this was all just you know the inner

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