252 || Do You Need to Add More Playfulness to Your Dream or Your Parenting? || Joy Wendling

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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.

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

Joy is a mama of five 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.

Download the new 7-day devotional: 7 Truths to Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt and get started today. It’s a short and powerful guide to help you get unstuck and remember what’s true.

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