Ep 48 | I Thought God Was Saying No: Waiting to Become a Stay-at-Home Mom

Two years ago this week, I finally became a stay-at-home mom. It took three and a half years of wanting that and not having it, and honestly, I understand the story differently now than I did the day it happened. So in this episode of Time Management for Christian Moms, I'm telling it properly. The daycare tours while pregnant with my first. The math that wouldn't work. The Etsy shop that didn't close the gap. The decision my husband and I handed over to the Lord, and the daycare that closed for good the very week our daughter was born. And the thing I couldn't have known: that my son would need more from me than a 9-5 ever could have allowed. If you're in your own season of waiting — on a baby, a job, a door for your business, healing, or the chance to stay home — this one is for you. Not because I can promise you'll get the thing. I can't, and I won't pretend otherwise. But because waiting on God's timing is hard in a specific way: the hard part usually isn't that God said no. It's that He hasn't told you when. In this episode: Why waiting doesn't mean God stopped listening, whatever the answer turns out to be Why none of us has enough information to judge God's timing (I was reading one tab of a spreadsheet He had thirty tabs open in) How sometimes God's grace is hidden inside the timing itself What I'm NOT saying: this isn't "be patient and you'll eventually get what you want" A practical exercise for seasons of waiting: writing down the specific, personal proof of God's past faithfulness (and what the Israelites forgot right after the Red Sea) Why faith is not the absence of wisdom, and how to make a wise plan while holding it loosely I'm also sharing some news at the end: the podcast is moving from weekly to every other week. New homeschool season, new therapy schedules, new capacity. I tell you all the time to plan around your real capacity instead of the capacity you wish you had, so I'm taking my own advice. Links + Resources: Take the What's Keeping You Stuck? Quiz: http://multiplythefive.com/quiz Submit to the Calm Discipline Collective EMAIL me: [email protected] BLOG: https://multiplythefive.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/multiplythefive/