But I also think we were supposed to live in the Garden of Eden and nobody was really working in that way. And we would be together and have all the food that we wanted and have this beautiful kind of harmonious life. 

And since the fall, since original sin, no one has lived the way that we are supposed to live. And so we are all trying to make the best of whatever situation that we’re in. And what I think really has radically changed in the last 20 years is that life has become so expensive and kind of the big industries around us have all taken advantage of us.

So that it now, all almost requires two people to be working in order to live. I would say the average American life. And you’ve seen those charts, probably on the internet where you see. How easy it was for a man to have, just like a regular blue collar job and to be able to buy a house and have two cars and have his wife stay home with the kids in the fifties. Right?

The math on that is just so incredible. It makes me mad that housing prices, food prices, everything, prices have raised, so much that it’s very difficult now for a family. To live on one income, of kind of a regular, average normal job. 

So the first thing I just want you to recognize is that that has happened to us. That is not your fault. You didn’t screw anything up. That has happened in American society in the last 40 years where it has become so expensive to live. lives.

Now. Part of it is on us in that I do think. That in the fifties, people were much more willing to like. live in a small apartment with not a lot of furniture and kind of eke it out for a while. While they were saving money, and building their families.

And I do think that now, younger people or people in our twenties or thirties, we just kind of want nicer things sooner. And myself included, I just really like nice things and I really wanted the house that I wanted or the car that I wanted, and. So that part is on us where I do think that we are less willing to kind of rough it than maybe some of the previous generations.

But again, the previous generations had four x the buying power that we did four x right? So like, just think about if your house was one fourth of what it actually cost one fourth and the food was one fourth and the cars were one fourth. 

Like I have, very different equation in your life. So I just wanna say, I do not think that it is ideal for women to be working and not to be with their kids and raise their kids, but for a lot of people it is necessary.

But I really want you to challenge that. I really want you to challenge, is this necessary that I’m doing it? If you got a job, My husband’s sister is a vet and everyone, she was so cute. She loved animals. Everyone went, you should be a vet. You should be a vet. And it sounded so noble, right? And so she went all the way through veterinary school. 

And actually her and her husband, they lived dirt poor like college students for, I wanna say five years after they graduated to pay off their student loans. So even though she did. End up with a significant number of student loans. they paid them off because they just, they did, they lived really, really simply and just lived poor until they took care of it. 

But I know that she has this feeling that she went through the schooling and so she almost has to be a vet. It’s like she sunk the cost and the time into it, and I don’t think she feels. Like she could just not be a vet and just be a stay at home mom. 

And so those situations are ones where we’re just telling ourselves a story about something. It’s not even factually true. There’s no like, school police that’s gonna come make sure that you’re using your degree if that’s the reason you’re working. I would really challenge that. 

I really would. I would really sit with that and go, huh, am I doing this because of this idea of the sunk cost of money and time, and I feel this external pressure to do it. It’s not coming from your husband, it’s not coming from finances. It’s just that you did get a degree or a higher degree and you feel pressure to use it. I would really challenge that. 

And then there’s, yes, it is financially necessary, but then I would rigorously challenge that too, and I’d be like, all right, what could we do? And could I work part-time instead of full-time? And could I work from home? Like I would really challenge the status quo everywhere. When it comes to the story I have to work. 

Okay, so there’s feeling the pressure to work just because you got the degree and then there’s, you know, financial pressure to work, which is very real for a lot of you. But I have noticed, by the way, several, like I see moms who work and they started working, but then they bought a bigger house and they signed up their kids for everything. And like kind of now. 

It was almost like a catch 22 of they started working and then expanded their lifestyle and then now they feel like they have to keep working in order to keep that lifestyle. And it’s a convenient excuse like, well, what we have to. but I really have watched that they almost like got the job first and then expanded, the lifestyle to then say, oh, I have to keep this job. So just be careful of that. Just be careful of that.

I really think that this is pretty subconscious. I don’t think that moms are consciously thinking this. I think it’s just it. We kind of get stuck into, working and then it feels like it’s necessary, and then we create circumstances in our lives that further make it feel like it’s necessary because it’s so painful. In our brains to have to problem solve, stepping out of this kind of working paradigm. And it’s just always easier to keep the status quo. 

And so for all of the reasons that, you know, moms end up working, and I think there are just some really, really legit reasons, just make sure you’re challenging them. Make sure you’re willing to sit in the discomfort of saying, is this right? Is this what God is asking me to do? And then if it’s. Have peace that that’s what you’ve discerned. Right?

Just really believe that you asked the Lord and he said yes for today, and that’s all we ever really have to know. We don’t have to know what we’re gonna be doing five years from now. I just wanna make sure that all of us are living really, really intentional lives that are rooted in discernment. 

Then, the next reason I think mom’s work is, and this is a really good reason, is because God has asked them to, I do believe, and we have seen this with some of the saints, that God does ask some women, he gives them talents and he asks some women to use them. 

But the two big examples that people often throw out. Our St. Zaly Martin, there’s mom, and St. Gianna, who was the doctor. And I’ve heard by the way that her plan was to stop working after she had that last baby. And of course she died, but that she was planning on stepping away after having that last baby. 

And so even both of those professions, though, were very flexible. I want you to know that both of them were flexible. Like they could kind of be in and out of the house and then work a little bit and then go to the office a little bit. I think both of those women were still very involved with raising their kids.

And listen, I am not the Lord and I’m not here passing judgment on any single person. If I meet someone and she’s working, I’m just like, oh, that’s between her and the Lord. She’ll figure that out. Maybe that’s what God’s asking her to do. From the outside, I really don’t look and pretend that I know. I do not know.

I feel collectively sad for all of us who have been kind of tricked into. Thinking that we need to work, but no one, person in front of me do I have any thoughts about that one person. I’m just like, do what you gotta do. We’re all just trying to figure out how to be humans in this absolutely backwards way of living.

And I talk about that on the podcast all the time. How isolated we are, how overwhelmed with information we are, how little help we have. Like we’re all just trying to figure it out.

But I just, I want. Everyone to make sure that if you’re working, that you really walk with the Lord and you say, Lord, is this how you want me spending my time?

So I am well, I was not raised religious and I wasn’t planning on having any children. But after I became Christian and decided I wanted to get married, I was very clear with my husband. I said, Hey, I wanna be a stay-at-home mom. You have to make enough money that I don’t need to work, like in the dating process. I was so clear about that. 

And then I had little rosemary, and I remember staring at her in the living room and being like, oh my gosh, this is so boring. It was so boring to have a baby in the living room and not have anything else to do.

And so I started learning things. I started taking pictures and learning photography, and I started blogging. And writing blog articles. And so I, you know, I definitely found things to do with my time. At that time, I didn’t really need to make any money, but it was important to me to use my brain. 

And I just found that there was time, there was nap time and little pockets of time where I could be learning things or I could be learning things while sitting in the living room with her, you know, and she’s toddling around and, you know, I’m learning some sort of skill. So that’s how I started. 

Photography, blogging, and then I started Coffee and Pearls, my original podcast, and I wanted to talk about mom life. And it was really for me just to have a place to process it. I had no experience being a mom or a homemaker, and there were a lot of challenging things and my brain wanted to make sense of that, and so I wanted to have a podcast where I talked about it.

Coffee and Pearls also was born out of the fact that I really loved reading self-help books. And I would read self-help books, either business books or you know, Catholic Saint books. And then I wanted to just share nuggets of wisdom from those books on the podcast. So I did that. 

And then my husband, we really didn’t love that he was working at Intel. And kind of, he wasn’t working a ton. I don’t think he was working more than 40 hours a week, but we just saw that if he was gonna stay there, he was gonna have to work more. 

And there were gonna be some nights and weekends and they really just kind of owned him. And those corporations, they pay you really well, but then they kind of feel like they own you and that they can ask you to do whatever they want. And we saw the writing on the wall pretty early on, that we didn’t wanna live like that. We wanted more freedom. 

So he ended up leaving Intel and working at a company in Boise, which is like a smaller version of Intel, and he thought maybe that smaller company would have a little bit more flexibility. And it turned out that that wasn’t true. As soon as we moved to Boise, he was like, I really do not like this company. They’re very backwards about a lot of things. They’re very slow. He did not enjoy working there. 

And so it was at that point that I googled Boise Business for Sale. There is a website called Biz Buy Sell that lists businesses that are for sale. And I just started scrolling through them to find something that would make sense for us. 

And there were a lot of things that I didn’t wanna run a restaurant, I didn’t wanna run a furniture company. Like there were a lot of companies that were for sale, and I just knew those were not the right ones for us. But I ended up finding a fence company that put in agricultural fences and it was for sale. 

And I said, all right, we could buy this company. We could get an SBA loan, which is what we ended up doing, and you can work at this company and we can grow it and then make more money. And I kind of did the math and thought, you know, we could get close to what he was making.

But we’d have more flexibility and freedom, and my husband really loves being outside, for as nerdy of an engineer as he is. He’s really an outdoors man. So we ended up buying this business and, well, there’s many details. I don’t know that I wanna hash the entire Heartland post and pole fencing company story.

But we, it was very hard. We lost a lot of money in the first year. It was definitely a blood, sweat and tear situation to turn that company around. but we did and we ended up selling it, which was great, and we sold it because one, we really decided that we just didn’t like being in construction. When you’re in construction, there are a lot of variables. 

There’s all the equipment, there’s the supplies that need to come, your team, and then the clients, and then the weather. So there were, just always things that were going wrong that you couldn’t really predict and you just had to deal with, for example, like rain and then mud, and then tires getting stuck, or a truck breaking down.

And this was just part of doing business, but we just didn’t like that. We didn’t like having a construction company. And it was at that time that we really wanted to leave Boise and move to Northern Idaho and to be in a place that was just more remote. 

So at this point, we sit down. And we say, okay, if we sell this business, we need a new business and a job. And at that point, I had self-published three or four books and my podcast was doing well, and I had been selling small products online. The Catholic Goals planner that I made and maybe some small digital products. I had not really been trying to make money. 

That whole season was really still a hobby season for me. But I’ve always loved business and so we said, alright, let’s go all in on your business. And we talked about it for so long. And my husband did not. I remember he did not have any ego tied up in me making the money. 

That was very clear. Like every time we talked about it did not make him feel like less of a man or less of a provider. And I really believed him. And we were like, okay, we think this’ll take 20 to 30 hours of Sterling’s time. 

But then of course he’d be home because now we don’t have the fencing company. So we’d both be home all the time with the kids. But I’d be working, you know, maybe 20 to 30 hours a week trying to get this business off the ground because we had sold the business, we had some money to live on while we were growing this other business.

And that’s important because I do believe that God gives every family, like the time and the resources that they need to do the mission that he puts on their hearts. 

And so that’s what he gave us. He gave us the resources to do this, and you’re probably not going to do it that way, you know, if you were thinking about creating a business, like we’re all gonna do it in a perfectly unique way that makes sense for the stage of life that we’re in the age of our kids, the resources that we have.

And so that’s how we did it. We sold this business, we moved to Northern Idaho, and that’s when I started Made For Greatness, which was a coaching company. I discovered coaching and it blew my mind. And I was like, I just wanna talk about this forever. And I still talk about that. And we created a membership online and I did one-on-one coaching for people.

And at first I really liked it. I really did. It was really fun. And we started that business and. We bought a really kind of old house and we remodeled the upstairs. 

So in the beginning when we moved, my husband was busy kind of managing a lot of those house remodel things like we put click lock laminate down throughout the whole house and tore out the kitchen, tore out a wall. Got rid of popcorn ceilings. That was a whole thing. 

And so I wanna say for at least six months, he was busy doing house stuff and I was doing business stuff. The business grew more slowly than, well, I guess I wanted it to, and that’s probably true about most things. I always want things to be faster than they are.

But I would say. We thought that we would hit certain milestones in year two and three, and we really hit those milestones in year four. 

So it just took longer than we thought. And it was emotionally hard to watch our savings account go down and we, because we were kind of living off our savings and the company was making money, but not enough to pay for the kind of life that we had. But that was our plan. So, you know, we would watch our savings account go down and we would say, yep, this is our plan. 

And then there would just be moments where I would feel frustrated and I would think, oh, I’m working too much. And really the truth was, I was just upset that we weren’t making more money. Like as fast as I wanted to. So I don’t think, like looking back, I don’t think I was actually upset about how many hours that I was working. 

I was really fine working 20 to 30 hours from home when I wanted. It was really flexible and I really love my job. I really love coaching. I really love growing a business and managing a team, and I really enjoyed it, but I think I was frustrated that we didn’t make more money. Then I just thought we would.

And those would be the moments of frustration between my husband and I where I’d just be frustrated. And I wasn’t frustrated at him, but I think it was hard for him to watch me ride, maybe the emotional rollercoaster of being an entrepreneur. 

And then what happened in the second year? I feel like he was remodeling the house, then it was winter again, and my husband, Skis with the kids over the winter, and it’s really, really fun. Like it’s a really big part of our family now. I didn’t grow up skiing, and so he skis with the kids and I really loved that. It was really great and he really enjoyed it.

And so that happened over the winter. And so I would say now, somewhere between that first year or two where we were kind of adjusting to everything and Now, I think we would say. We don’t like that he doesn’t have something really intellectual to sink his teeth into. 

My husband’s a really smart guy and even though he hangs out with the kids, he makes breakfast for them every morning and they do a lot of stuff on the property. Like the other day, they just planted the new fruit trees that you know are gonna grow and they installed drip lines for them and we’re about to get chickens again. 

And so there’s a lot of stuff to be done around the house and he’s not upset about doing those things, but there’s definitely something missing for his brain, like something really high level to sink his teeth into.

And we both have felt kind of stymied there because what he is qualified to do, first of all, usually isn’t a remote position. They usually, in research and development, want you at the facility because it’s proprietary and private, whatever you’re working on. So they don’t want you to do it remotely and it’s not part-time.

So I think right now, if I could magic wand it and have him do a remote job for 20 hours a week where he was solving complex problems for some company, he would love that, but it’s not a common position. 

And we don’t wanna move and we don’t want him to work full time. And so I would say we actually have really good communication around how we spend our time and our money and him working. It has not caused relationship problems between us, other than I just look at him and he doesn’t look super fulfilled. Like I just think he could be playing at another level. But neither of us have a good answer for that. 

And certainly there are some negative things. I don’t know that it’s great for husbands and wives to be together all the time. You know, kind of that fondness makes the heart grow stronger. I actually don’t know that. I love that we are together in the house all the time. It’s. We just spend too much time together and I am thankful that he takes camping trips with our kids. 

And then he also takes ’em to Boise, eat to visit some friends of ours sometimes for a whole week. And that’s really nice just to have some separation and just kind of to miss each other. I don’t know that it’s, I could just speak for myself. I don’t know that I like that we are just together all the time. All the time. 

I think it’s nice to have some separation and because we both are pretty much in the house or around the house all the time, our lives are just very, very enmeshed in that way. So that I would say is one drawback. and that may not be true for everybody. There may be some couples who just love that and wanna be together all the time.

I think for us it would be a little bit better if we had a little bit more separation and missed each other and, then got to come together and, and talk about our day. But the truth is we kind of live our days together for most. Of the time. And so we don’t even really need to talk about it because we were both there the whole time.

And then there are days where I don’t feel like working and I feel pouty like a teenager. And I think that’s just true of motherhood as well, right? Like there are days where you’re like, oh my gosh, I don’t wanna make dinner again, or I just cleaned the living room and now I have to clean it again.

So I think that that’s probably just the human condition about all jobs, is that. Even though God made us for work, and we would be very unhappy if we didn’t have work to do, there are still days where we wanna pout and say, I don’t feel like working. 

And so I think that that happens to me sometimes, but it’s a total normal amount of just like I’m tired and I feel like sitting and reading a book today instead of doing my job. Overall though I really like it and I try to manage the type of work that I do pretty closely so that I don’t get too tired. 

Coaching is a very emotional work and you have to expend a great deal of energy to coach one person, but then also to do what I do in my other programs, which is coach many people all at once and to kinda hold space for that room.

Because when you’re coaching a person, you’re also kind of coaching everybody in that room and making sure that what you’re talking about is relevant. And, even though it will be an hour long call, it really just zaps your energy. So I just don’t do too many of those in any one day so that I’m not. I’m not too tired, and I work really hard on not thinking about my business when I’m with my family.

And that took some training to do, mostly ’cause I love thinking about business and I love solving problems with my mind. but I really work hard not to do that, so that, you know, when I’m working, I’m working and then I leave my office and then when I’m home and doing kid stuff. I’m home and doing kid stuff and my office is at home.

We did try having an office in town away from the kids and the noise of everything for six months and I really liked it. It was so interesting. It was like 59, no, 49, 51% for me. I really, there were a lot of things I liked about the office, including that it was really close to the parish. So I got to go to daily mass every day.

Like I’d go into the office and I’d work for a little bit and I’d go to daily Mass, and then I’d come home. But I just, in the end, I didn’t like not having a pulse on what was going on at home and seeing the kids as much. And I also, because my computer was at my office, felt like if I drove all the way there, I needed to make it worth it.

And, so I would sometimes even stretch the day a little bit to get things done because I knew that as soon as I left, I wouldn’t be able to work on it. And I didn’t like that. I really like being home and being able to work for two hours and then come outta my office and hang out with my family for two hours, and then work for two hours again if I want to. So in the end, we ended up coming back home and working from my office. 

I’m trying to think if there’s anything else negative about it. Well, one thing my husband said after we got married is he said, Sterling, you’re always just gonna need something to do with your mind. 

And he said very clearly in the beginning he was like, even if you don’t make money, even if you’re podcasting and writing books and it doesn’t make any money, I just, you’re gonna need something with your mind. And I think that that’s really true for a lot of women is that they want something that their brain can chew on. 

And then for me, for the first eight years, it wasn’t in the form of a job. It was kind of what we call a joby, which is like a hobby, side hustle kind of fun thing where you’re not really trying to make a ton of money with it.

And now it is my job. And I really do enjoy it. It’s very fulfilling. I have to still do mom stuff, house stuff, and I work hard in my brain to make that feel fulfilling too, because it can seem so much more fun to do adult things and work on adult problems. 

But I just, I’m not confused about the fact that. My primary vocation is to be a mom and to be with those kids. Even if kid stuff is not my favorite stuff, I still just, I do it and I know it’s what God is asking me to do. 

So I don’t know that I even compare those two activities a lot. It’s just I feel like God’s given me these  gifts and these talents to share in my job, and then he’s given me the kind of gift and talent of stewarding these kids in my home. And I just kind of switch between one mode or the other.

We really do like our freedom. We really do. Like they go camping a ton too. As soon as the weather gets nice, they’ll just go camping for four or five days, and there aren’t a lot of jobs that let you do that.

So I would say that we really like our freedom, our flexibility, we pay for our life now, and we just pray. We’ve just been praying like, Lord, is this how you want us to spend our time? Is this what you want us to be doing? 

He also teaches math and science to some homeschool kids that doesn’t take up much of his time. And again, he has an Ivy League PhD in chemistry. So teaching low level math and science is not super challenging for him. 

And then we just take care of these six kids. I mean, there’s so much going on when you have six kids, like braces appointments and soccer practice and you know, so we’re kind of doing that  together. There’s no shortage of things to do. I would just say that intellectually we want something more for him. 

Last year he started doing our Facebook ads and I was like, Hey, I think you could do this. ’cause it’s a lot of math and statistics and. I said, Hey, why don’t you do our Facebook ads? So now actually he runs our Facebook ads and he’s really good at it, but it still just doesn’t take that much time to do that.

And so as the company is growing, we. Are just trying more and more things. And so he does a few things, but still he’s really like, I mean, he’s not a rocket scientist, but he’s kind of like that kind of person and really ought to have a job like that. But we have chosen not to do that. 

And so  it’s a great sacrifice that he makes. I don’t think he feels, he certainly doesn’t mind that my company makes money. Like I sense no ego in that. And I don’t think he feels bad. Like he’s not providing for our family at all. We never talk about that. We really mostly just talk about his brain and are we doing enough for his brain? Like is he busy enough?

But we pray about it and we have not heard God say to do anything else. And that’s the other thing, just to circle back to working moms. Even if you discern that God wants you to work, keep asking him. I still ask him all the time. Hey, do you still want me to do this? Do you still want me to be working?

And I feel really blessed that actually lately I’ve been working really like 20 hours a week, a lot less even than I was before. And that’s been really nice and I spend plenty of time with my kids and I feel good about how it looks and how we are together. But I will always ask the Lord, is this how you want me to be spending my time?

And my husband does the same thing. And we both pray separately. Like we both ask God separately and then we’ll come back together and go, okay, what did you hear? And so far we’ve just heard, yeah, like, this is it. This is what I want you to do right now. 

And I do think that sometimes, is frustrating to my husband that there just isn’t, hasn’t been something that’s come up for him to release his teeth into, but. We’re just trusting that this is where the Lord wants us to be now. And it doesn’t surprise me a ton because we do still have a lot of little kids and they just need so much.

And as kids get older, you know, I think we don’t have to be with them quite as much. And, that’s also just because they go out into the world and do things like they have jobs and they’re spending time doing more things, so you can’t be with them as much.

But in a lot of ways we are living exactly what we wanted, which was to be in a remote place. We’re not really on a farm. We’re on five acres, but I’m not very into farming or gardening, so it’s not really a farm. But we do have chickens and we do what we want to do, and I fought really hard for that. 

I want you to know that it’s possible to kind of like, break out of the mold. And live a different life and you do have to fight for it, and you do have to make sacrifices. And we’ve worked really hard. It’s very difficult to be an entrepreneur and to take on that kind of risk and to build a business and to live with it through the ups and downs. And we’ve done that twice now.

And that was the cost in order to have the kind of freedom that we have now. But that was really important to me. But I do find that God kind of puts dreams on your heart that make sense for you, and then he will probably fulfill them. 

So if you have a dream to move somewhere and live a certain way, it’s very likely that you will, and it’s very likely that God gave you a husband that’s also gonna agree with that. I think it’s kind of crazy that I was so adamant about being a stay at home mom and, when we got married, we were living that corporate life. 

And I think it’s incredible that we both changed our minds about that later because it would’ve been really difficult for us in our marriage if we had not both changed our minds.

I think the other person would’ve felt tricked, but God and his goodness was like, no, you guys, you’re gonna start out doing this and then I’m gonna move your hearts and you’re both gonna change your mind at the same time and choose to do this other thing.

And you know, I’ve shared on this podcast that Michael and I have difficult marriage things, but it has just never really been about money and working. We have always been very tight on that page and had really good communication and agreed on what we wanted to do with our family. 

And that has, it’s kind of worked out the way that we thought other than, like I said, I think he’s got another chapter of his life coming, another hobby or another kind of side hustle or project or business or job or something. I feel like something is coming for him. That he’s going to be able to kind of flex his knowledge, his brain power on.

But it’s not in front of us today, and that’s all we really need to know. So I hope I answered. Those questions about being a working mom and our lifestyle and what our life looks like.

The only thing I didn’t touch a ton on is homeschooling at the moment. my oldest goes to a homeschooling co-op on Monday with a bunch of other 14 year olds. I have some nine to 11 year olds come to my house and we have kind of a, it’s like a glorified play date, really. I mean, I do some school with them, but they play a lot.

And then I teach them about religion and we’re making a play. I’ll teach them about their brains. I just kind of teach them things that I think are important and then I let them play, and I really love that we do that on Mondays. And then, like I said, my husband does math and science with those older kids on Mondays as well.

And then just in general, we’re kind of unschoolers. I’m not rigorously like, sit down and do all the books and check all these boxes. I want them to be learning how to learn and they play music. They play the piano and they practice. but in general our house looks very fluid or I don’t know.

They have a lot of free time. They have a lot of outside time. They read a lot. Like, if you come into my house, it’s very likely that you’re gonna see my girls reading and the boys outside playing and they do a lot of art. And so a lot of that just isn’t really requiring me to sit down with them at the table.

But it’s not that I don’t have the time, it’s just that I don’t like teaching like that. I don’t. I didn’t wanna teach them that way. And who knows, time will tell whether it was a good choice for us to do it that way or not. You know, we never really know until the kids kind of turn out.

So I’m not saying that that’s how I think everybody should do it, but, I’ve always been a fan of child-led learning and unschooling and mostly just reading, and kind of following your heart and. That is kinda the approach to homeschooling we have taken so far. And then of course, my 7-year-old is in school.

My 7-year-old goes to a private school, which is a super cool Christian school that’s also a farm. It’s amazing if everyone could send their kids to a school like that. I think we’d all just love school. But, he goes to school. Five days a week, like it’s a regular school, but I really love that experience for him.

Alright, if you have any other questions, just email the team, email [email protected] and it’ll get to me and I’d be happy to answer them. If you are just like, curious about our life or our money, or our lifestyle or our marriage or just any of these things, I think it is nice to get to peek into other people’s lives and see just. How some people choose to live.

But remember, the blueprint for your life is gonna be in your heart and the Holy Spirit lives inside of you and he’s gonna move your heart to action. And we just wanna constantly be going to the Lord and saying, am I doing this right? Am I living well? Is this how you want me to be spending my time?

Because we will be held accountable for how we lived and God won’t care what societal pressures were present at the time. Right. 

We won’t be able to be like, well, but everyone else was doing it, or you know, this is just like, I felt a lot of pressure from my mom and so I kept doing this thing, and like, no, none of that. We are gonna be held accountable for how we chose to live. And so, may all of us just spend enough time talking to him that we are very confident about how he wants us to live. 

All right, you guys, I am praying for you. Please pray for me. Thank you so much for listening and have a blessed day.