Hi, friend. I'm so grateful you've joined me on the Jesus Over Everything show. If you haven't heard the news, we have gone retro this summer. For the months of June and July, we are featuring our five word prayers daily. The show, this show started as, and so many of you love so much, five-minute podcast shows on topics of all kinds, the short inspiration you need for every day of the week.

So enjoy these shows, keep listening all summer, and see you right here back in August for a

powerful season six.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share

the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Happy Wednesday, continuing on in our parenting month, and this

week our What to Do When Week. We've already covered parenting tough kids, what to do when our heart

is broken by our child, and up today is something I

experienced really deeply for myself when my kids were little. It has to do with the word

depletion. And in a really specific way, I want to talk to you about, so stay with me and I'll be

right back. If you've been listening since the beginning, you've heard me tell a lot of personal

stories about my life and journey as a mom. And one of those is when my husband lost his job

when my kids were all three under the age of three. And it was really difficult 18 months.

One of the things that was the most difficult for me was trying to parent my kids and meet their

needs along with the needs of my husband, by the way, when I had nothing really for myself,

trying to encourage my husband in faith and to keep going when I was pretty spiritually depleted on a lot of days

because I simply didn't have time for a quiet time with God because of so much going on with logistics

with parenting. To be honest, I was lucky to even get up and brush my teeth and comb my hair,

much less to have prayer time and Bible reading. I was in mommy survival mode, and I know some of you

listeners can relate, and many of the others of you can remember and empathize. So what do you do

when you have nothing left for

yourself in your spiritual life, in your time and all the ways, really? This becomes especially hard

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