Welcome to the Love Where You Are podcast! 

In today’s episode, Somer is joined with Rachel K. Adams.

Rachel is the author of A Little Goes a Long Way and she is the host of The Love Offering podcast. Rachael hopes to help women realize their God-given purpose and significance. She and her husband, Bryan, run a family business and farm in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate, and two dogs. Her work has been featured on Crosswalk, iBelieve, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. She is also a friend of the Love Where You Are podcast! 

In this episode, Somer and Rachel talk about her devotional (A Little Goes a Long Way) and how we as mothers and wives can find significance in our seemingly ordinary lives.

Rachel reminds us of the life Jesus led, the humble son of a carpenter from Nazareth who saw the hungry, the lame, the blind, the women. While Jesus did perform extraordinary miracles, he also did the simple act: speaking to these people. Sometimes living our ordinary lives and following Jesus may not seem glamourous (especially in contrast to social media's image of life!) but it can be exactly what God calls from us. Not only that, but Rachel reminds us that we are loved by God not because of what we can do, but just simply because He does. God is the most significant and He loves us unconditionally. 

Thank you for being here today. Now, let's dive into the conversation! 

Connect with Rachel:

Get her A Little Goes a Long Way book! 

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Check out her Website

Listen to the Love Offering Podcast 

 

FAVORITE TAKE-AWAYS: 

We don’t gain our value from our work but there is value in our work

As believers, God looks upon us and says ‘I am pleased with you’, therefore you already have significance

We already have inherent significance just because God created us

We exhaust ourselves even though our value has already been determined by our Creator

If nothing was too insignificant for the Savior of the world, then nothing is too insignificant for us. 

We don’t need to discount those simple, everyday moments where we’re just connecting with one another on a heart to heart level

Everyone has the daily, ordinary and so what happens when we’re faithful there?

The devil wants to take our eyes off of what we have been given

There is too much at stake to let comparison get us off track

At the end of the day, God does his best work with weak and little and inadequate and that’s the story of all of scripture.

 

REMEMBER: 

When we are weak, He is strong and He gets all the glory

When we love others well, that kind of activity is contagious

When they do something that may feel super small, we need to call attention to it and tell them how proud we are - as we start to draw attention to those things, they will start to draw attention to those things

When God created Adam and Eve, He looked upon His creation and said it was good before they ever did a thing. 

 

Connect with Somer! 

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