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How To Live a Slow & Intentional Life | Christian Homemaking & Slow Living with Children
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Feb 28, 2025
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for so many years I thought productivity
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equal purpose I packed my days full
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chasing goals checking off my to-do list
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trying to organize as much as I can
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because I thought for sure that if I
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made sure that my organization was
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together and my planner was full then my
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days would be a little less chaotic and
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a little less HEC
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I thought that by organizing and
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planning out my daily to-do list and
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making sure that my schedule looked as
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perfect as it could be that maybe my day
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might look a little bit perfect too but
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still always I always felt like I had so
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much to do that there just wasn't enough
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time in the day deep down I felt like
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something was missing I couldn't figure
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it out and one thing that I realized is
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that in trying to plan everything and
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trying to organize everything even
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though I was getting things done and
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checking off the to-do list as more and
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more things needed to get done I began
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to lose track of things that were
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extremely and most important to me which
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was family I started to realize that
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even though I was always at home calling
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myself a stay-at-home mom and a
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homemaker I wasn't truly present with my
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family and I often also felt distant
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from God who would have known that even
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though though you are spending a full
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day in the home with your children you
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can still feel like you're not actually
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present with them you're missing out on
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the everyday little moments the memories
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you're missing out on just quality time
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with them because you're too busy
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checking your to-do list and trying to
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keep up with everything inside of your
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planner so one day I came across a
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scripture in my devotions I love my
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devotions one devotion that I am
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currently reading is called Grace and
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Chaos I got this one from daily grace
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company it is a company that I highly
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recommend they have the most wonderful
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devotions that go along with your Bible
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studies and I always like to just sit
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down and just get started with my
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devotion say a prayer before doing so
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and normally by prayer God can lead me
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to whatever scripture or verse I need in
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that day one day during my devotion I
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came across a scripture in the book of
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Psalm 46 verse 10 be still and know that
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I am God this is a scripture that I read
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many many times before but it never
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really stuck out so loudly to me I truly
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felt that it was God telling me that I
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needed to focus in on what he was saying
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in the
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scripture I realized that in all of my
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busyness I wasn't making room for
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Stillness Stillness to sit at the feet
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of Jesus and simply just be and allow
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God to beet me right where I am in
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motherhood in homemaking and in life so
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slowly I began to shift my mindset I
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started to ask God to guide me and guide
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my priorities instead of letting the
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world dictate them and trying to control
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them myself I threw down the planner I
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threw down the need to try and organize
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everything and I gave myself permission
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to just let go of the pressure to do it
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all and to keep up with all of the
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stay-at home and homem making Trends and
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stay on top of everything and do
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everything perfectly instead I chose to
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focus on doing just a few things really
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well things that truly matter in light
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of
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Eternity so for this year one of my
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goals is to slow down and choose living
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intentionally and that doesn't mean that
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I have it all together because there are
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still sometimes where I'm going to mess
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up same days are still going to be
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chaotic but now I am trying to
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intentionally look for just those small
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sacred moments those moments to just be
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present in with my husband with my
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children and mostly with God because it
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is in that quiet of an early morning
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prayer or devotion it's in the joy of
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breaking bread with my children and
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enjoying dinner and breakfast with them
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maybe folding laundry while meditating
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on scripture or looking at my children
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love one another and my spouse love on
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them as well it's in these moment that I
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can really see God's goodness and open
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the door for so many opportunities for
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me to experience Grace and
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gratitude I've learned to see that
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homemaking in motherhood is not a list
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of chores but it is an act of worship
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and when I care for my home and my
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family and spend time with them I'm
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constantly reminded that God has trusted
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me with this beautiful ministry right
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here within these four walls of my home
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so I say all of this to say that if you
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like me have been feeling overwhelmed by
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the pace of life and trying to stay on
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top of all of the task I want to
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encourage you to just pause to lay it
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all down to surrender it all down at the
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feet of the Lord and ask him like I did
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to help you slow down and Savor the life
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that he has given you trust me he will
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[Music]
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answer when you let go of the rush and
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trying to control everything and embrace
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God's peace you will find him in the
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most ordinary in the most beautiful
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moment so today I am going to share with
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you some ways that you can decide to
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slow down and live intentionally in life
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hoping that maybe you might find it
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purposeful one way is to start your day
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with God satisi quiet time just like I'm
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doing here in this video in the morning
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for prayer and scripture before the day
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gets too busy even if it's just 5
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minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes it can
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still help center your heart and your
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mind on him this doesn't have to look
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perfect it doesn't have to be in
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solitude soon you will see that my
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children are going to bust inside of the
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room my daughter is going to wake up and
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I'm going to have to pick her up my son
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is going to come into the room as well
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and it's not going to be you know the
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perfect moment but intentionally I am
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choosing to create that moment not to
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rush it it doesn't have to get done
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before they wake up it just needs to get
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done and it can be done beside my
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children as well so remember your quiet
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time in the morning your prayer your
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scripture reading it doesn't have to be
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perfect just tailor it to the way that
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it fits into your current
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Lifestyle the second way that you can
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live a slow and intentional biblical
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life is to Simply simplify your schedule
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you don't have to have your schedule
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completely pack full if you notice that
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you have something to do every single
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hour of the day I encourage you to
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simplify your schedule take some things
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off your list and just leave room for
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things to happen when your schedule is
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so full and jam-packed you don't really
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have a lot of space in that schedule for
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family time or everyday blessings that
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you don't control but that God puts in
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front of you you also are more likely to
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try and rush to get those things done so
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I encourage you to evaluate your
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commitments and let go of activities
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that don't align with your values or
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your purpose and choose the ones that
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are most important for you every single
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day number three is to create a peaceful
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home environment this is something that
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I have been desperately striving to do
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more and more starting by decluttering
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and simplifying my home so that it just
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feels more restful and less stressful
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you can start with one area at a time
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like your kitchen or your bedroom or
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wherever you spend the most time in your
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home it's easy to quickly fill up our
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homes with more and more stuff and that
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also creates a bit of overwhelm where
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there is more choices to make more
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things to clean more things to organize
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more to put away so decluttering your
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home is one easy way to begin creating a
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peaceful environment you can then
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replace it with things that bring you
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peace like pictures of your family
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scriptures and quotes from the Bible
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candles anything that brings your family
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Joy number four is to incorporate
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biblical truth into your daily family
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life the mood of everyone in the home
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kind of just bounces off of one another
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so practicing memorizing verses from the
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Bible and reciting them as a family and
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using moments like dinner or bedtime to
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pray together with your children and to
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pray with your husband is another way
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way to just create peace and slow
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intentional living throughout the entire
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family and throughout the entire home
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number five is to practice gratitude
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daily when you see all of the goodness
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that God has granted you and when you
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focus on the positive it's really really
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hard to see the negative one thing I
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like to do is to write down some things
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at least three things that I'm thankful
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for each day and try to keep those in my
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mind whenever I start to feel like upset
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or overwhelmed or tired I just think of
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the three things that I wrote down for
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that day and kind of just like replay
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them in my hair remembering that I have
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those things plus more to be thankful
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for so there's no need for me to focus
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on the negative if you want to choose a
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slow living intentional life the best
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way to go about it is to just ask God to
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guide you in that way because I can't
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tell you how to do it nobody can I can
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share my tips and tricks but it has to
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be tailored to your way of life to ask
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God to guide your steps and help you
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discern what things in your life are
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truly important and to help you focus on
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those things and give you balance in
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work life and family life as well to
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close us out I'm just going to share one
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more scripture with you guys let the
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Peace of Christ rule in your hearts
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since as members of one body you were
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called to peace and be thankful
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when Christ's peace rules in our hearts
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it begins to spill over into our homes I
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hope that you will find motivation
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within the words that I shared with you
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today and that soon you will be on your
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way to living a slow and intentional
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biblical life
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