How do you faithfully pursue a dream despite your limitations?
Mother of five little girls, Joy Wendling relishes the dream God has given her to help other moms enjoy their motherhood and incorporate playful moments with conversations about faith. But there are days when her own sin and brokenness make her feel disqualified from pursuing this dream. That’s when she reminds herself to trust that God’s faithfulness is bigger than her brokenness.
IF YOU’VE WONDERED ABOUT PURSUING A DREAM WHEN YOU STILL FEEL BROKEN, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU
Maybe you have felt unqualified and inadequate to convey the message God has given you to share with others. Maybe the enemy has told you that you’re too broken, imperfect, or messed up to carry any goodness, hope, or encouragement to others.
Let this conversation with Joy encourage you through practical steps to integrate playfulness into your life and allow the Lord to meet you with His grace, mercy, and faithfulness to do the work in and through you, despite you.
In this episode you’ll also hear Joy and I discuss:
A definition of play, how Jesus played, and how that informs playfulness for us
How we are meant to enjoy the abundant life
Nurturing an awareness of God’s presence with you in your dream
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MORE ABOUT JOY:
Joy is a mama of 5 fun and fabulous girls, a podcaster, a parent coach, and a speaker with 20+ years of ministry experience and a Master’s in Youth, Family, and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary. She loves to equip and encourage Christian families to grow closer to Christ through play and to help parents disciple their kids through discipline. Joy does her best to enjoy the abundant life Christ offers through daily play and adventures in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
You can listen to Joy on her podcast Playfully Faithful Parenting where she shares playful discipleship tips each Monday and parenting devotions each Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Joy’s podcast: Created to Play
The Chosen TV show
Travis Tritt’s “It’s a Great Day to be Alive”
Discount on a Single Coaching Session: Joy is offering 33% off of a single coaching session to dream about what family discipleship might look like. Use code: DREAM33
Scripture:
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
~ Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV)
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
~ Luke 2:52 (NIV)
However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all.
~ Ecclesiastes 11:8a (NIV)
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
and when you lie down, and when you rise.
~ Deuteronomy 6:5 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
~ Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)
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