Finding Joy in Your Home

We have been living in a renovated 32 foot travel trailer as we travel full time around the United States. While it's been amazing, it has also come with it's own challenges in living tiny. In today's epsiode I'm going to share some of the important lessons I've learned about homemaking and housekeeping that I'll be carrying with me back into a home one day. 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: Our sponsor: Get TWO weeks of free meal plans from Prepdish.com/homemaking Follow our RV adventures over at Instagram.com/Wanderingnotlostfamily

Are you struggling to find joy and peace in your life right now? Me too! In this episode we will break down some practical ways we can learn to grow in the Lord when it comes to trust and peace! 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: Book recommendation: Trusting God by Jerry Bridges Book recommendation: Praying the Bible by Donald Whitney Our sponsor: LaurelSprings.com/Foundation Our sponsor: HelloFresh.com/Foundation80 coupon code: Foundation80 NOTES for this episode: It takes discipline and obedience to actively place our faith and trust: "We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth." - Trusting God 1. Start off your day with GOD not social media Before you check your email, hop on FB or turn on the news...first turn to the Lord. 2. End your day with GOD not social media 3. Surround yourself with the things of God more Listen to sermons when cooking or out for a drive Listen to Gospel Centered books that will help you have a better mindset Listen to hymns and other good worship songs SING those worship songs throughout your day Talk to your kids constantly about the hope we have in Christ 4. PRAY. Pray all the time. Daily. Hourly. Minute by minute. Feeling crushed and defeated? Stop. Open your Bible to the psalms and pray through them. When you feel like you have nothing to pray, let the psalms direct you. WHY pray scripture? "And when prayer is boring, we don't feel like praying. And when we don't feel like praying, it's hard to make ourselves pray. Even five or six minutes of prayer can feel like an eternity. Our mind wanders half the time. We'll suddenly come to ourselves and think, "Now where was I? I haven't been thinking of God for the last several minutes." And we'll return to that mental script we've repeated countless times. But almost immediately our minds begin to wander again because we've said the same old things about the same old things so many times." - Praying the Bible HOW to pray scripture: "To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text." "So basically what you are doing is taking words that originated in the heart and mind of God and circulating them through your heart and mind back to God. By this means his words become the wings of your prayers." -Praying the Bible

Are you struggling this year to trust in the Lord? Are you wrestling with fear and anxiety? Today we are going to look to Scripture to see how we can learn how to trust in the promises of God. 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: Book recommendation: Trusting God by Jerry Bridges Our sponsor for today's episode: For 25% off each of your first 3 months of Care/of, go to TakeCareOf.com/home25 and enter code home25 Passages we covered today: TRUSTING is not passive: "Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us." - Trusting God Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. - Hebrews 10:23 Learning to trust: "God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand." - Trusting God "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation." - Isaiah 12:2 "If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us." - Trusting God "God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us." - Trusting God Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. - Isaiah 26:4 "Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude." - Trusting God Trusting him when times get tough: "In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are: • God is completely sovereign. • God is infinite in wisdom. • God is perfect in love. Someone has expressed these three truths as they relate to us in this way: "God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about." - Trusting God "God does not willingly bring affliction or grief to us. He does not delight in causing us to experience pain or heartache. He always has a purpose for the grief He brings or allows to come into our lives. Most often we do not know what that purpose is, but it is enough to know that His infinite wisdom and perfect love have determined that the particular sorrow is best for us. God never wastes pain. He always uses is to accomplish His purpose. And His purpose is for His glory and our good. Therefore, we can trust Him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain."- Trusting God Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9 We need to trust in the Lord, not in man The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. - Proverbs 29:25

Welcome to part 2 in my series on homeschooling. In this episode I am going to share our unhurried approach to homeschooling and what our daily routine looks like. 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: What is a Morning Basket? Premade Morning Baskets Better Together - A book on morning time Teaching From Rest - the BEST book!! Charlotte Mason in a Nutshell A guide to poetry tea time How to fit in extra subjects with tea time - Raising Arrows

I know many people have questions about homeschooling right now. How to do it, what the different approaches are, what does an easy homeschool day look like and more. Listen in to Part 1 today where we go over the reasons why we chose to homeschool and 5 different "types" of homeschoolers. 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: Our sponsor for today: Get a 2 week FREE trial of the best meal planning from PrepDish.com/Homemaking The 5 types of homeschool What is the Charlotte Mason Method? Curriculum recommendations: Classical Conversations - A Classic Approach to Education Sonlight - A Literature Based Approach MasterBooks - A Charlotte Mason inspired Curriculum (Christian based!) The Good and the Beautiful - A Charlotte Mason inspired curriculum. We will be using this for our 2nd year in a row Books I highly recommend: The Call of the Wild and Free by Ainsley Arment Teaching From Rest by Sarah MacKenzie The Read Aloud Family by Sarah MacKenzie Better Together: Strengthen Your Family, Simplify Your Homeschool, and Savor the Subjects that Matter Most by Pam Barnhill