Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast.

I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey ladies, welcome back to my podcast. Very excited to share that we're finally getting back to our family and culture series. I believe this is

part four. You can go ahead and this might be part five, but you can go ahead and catch up at the

beginning of this series, which we started all the way back in December. You can go back and catch up.

I will have links for you in the show notes. But if you go, if you scroll back in the podcast feed,

wherever you're listening, you'll see that each of these episodes is labeled Family and Culture

Part 1 through whatever we're at today. And I'm excited to get back to this because in this

family and culture series, what we're aiming to do is bring all of the craziness that's been happening the last few

years and put some perspective on it. How can we, how do we need to look at our homes in light of

being Christians? How do we need to look at what's happening in the world as as being Christians?

And I know so many of us have been battling fear and anxiety and just trying

to capture joy within our homes or when is it appropriate to have joy in our homes. When do we

need to be carrying each other's burdens? Where all of these big questions. And today is a very,

what do you call it, like relevant conversation.

So I am definitely not like a political commentator.

I'm not one of those that is always talking about all the latest hot button issues that

are happening.

But I don't think any of us can avoid it in the last couple of years, that there is just a lot

of global, no matter where you're listening in from, a lot of global stress and fear and crazy

things. So today's episode, we're really talking about when is it appropriate to carry each

other's burdens? And this is something I struggle with because I am extremely empathetic.

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