What Matters Most: A Faith Reset for Busy Moms

We slow down, look at the fall rush with clear eyes, and ask a better question: what matters most right now? We cut noise, make room for love, and shape schedules that reflect loving God first and loving our families well.

• fall as a reset and reality check
• Matthew 22 and the two greatest commandments
• removing hindrances before adding practices
• honest audit of screens, news, and time traps
• aligning the home around love languages
• cutting back activities to protect connection
• simple rhythms for prayer, presence, and peace
• practical swaps that create margin for what matters

Transcript

Welcome and Gratitude

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This is Jenna Marie Masters with the Real Mom's Real Faith Podcast. I am so glad you're here so you can be encouraged to trust God with all the things one day at a time. Hello, my friends. Thank you so much for coming back to listen to the Real Moms Real Faith podcast. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who listened last week. I had a record number of downloads and it just it means so much to me that you listen and that God is moving. Thank

Naming What Matters Most

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you. This week we're going to be talking about what matters most. To me, I always feel like the beginning of the school year is crazy. And on one end, it feels so nice to get back into routine and structure because summer can feel crazy. All good, but crazy. The fall is really like an introspective time for me. I feel like most people reset and set their goals in the new year, but for me, it's really fall that makes me want to do these things. I feel like it's just my time to like lock in and tackle new ideas, new projects, new dreams, and all those things. But it's like my mind is in one place and my physical body is driving kids to school and sports and doing

Fall Reset and Life Load

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dishes and laundry. And it actually takes time to settle my mind and ask the question what matters most to me in this season? And I think sometimes we overcomplicate this because we really can go straight to Jesus and ask him, What matters most to you? Because that's what should matter most to me. We're just going to jump into Matthew 22, 34 through 40. It says this Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees get together. One of them, an expert of the law, tested him with this question, Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus replied, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and prophets hang on these

Matthew 22: The Greatest Commands

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two commandments. God is saying what matters most is loving God and loving others. So here's my question to us. How does your schedule support that? So number one, we ask ourselves, is what matters most to me loving God with my heart and my soul and my mind? And if that's true, how am I making room in my schedule for that to be a reality? Sometimes I think we make the mistake of what we can add to our lives. Sometimes I think we complicate it and we want to add more to our schedule to bring us closer to God. For example, we might want to add a Bible study or a quiet time or we play worship music while we're doing dishes or praying out loud with our kids and the list goes on and I do all these things and they're all good things. But here's something I realized this week. Maybe the question we need to be asking is what can I remove

Remove Before You Add

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from my life that isn't making space for me to fall in love with God more? What is holding me back or weighing me down from making this what matters most? The Bible tells us to throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles us and that we should run with perseverance, the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. We're supposed to throw off anything that hinders us from running to God every day. What is in the way of me just falling in love with Him more? Because if that is number one, the most important thing in my life, am I really prioritizing that not only for myself, but in my home? So, number one, is there something you can remove from your life that gets in the way of that? Maybe you do want to read the Bible more. Well, a lot of us say we don't have time to do that. And I think that's the enemy because there's a lot of time in the day. But let's be honest.

Time Wasters and Honest Audits

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If you open up your phone and you look at how much you have spent scrolling Instagram, sometimes it's frightening. Sometimes my children will tell me how much time I spent on Instagram and I just want to hide under the couch. It's legit embarrassing. And I think, oh my gosh, if I took those two hours or whatever it is and actually read my Bible instead or turned on some worship music or prayed, how much more different would my life be? So what can you remove from your life? Maybe it is a TV show that you are binge watching, and I am totally guilty of that. Ladies, sometimes I'm actually excited to be sick because I can just sit in bed and watch like eight seasons of a Netflix show and not quote unquote feel guilty about it because I'm sick. And you know, when that little bubble pops up and it says, Are you still watching? Netflix is like, Are you still actually on the couch watching the show? But when you're sick, you're just like, Well, yes, yes, I am Netflix, and I do not feel bad about it. Um, nothing is wrong with that. I'm just saying we choose what we fill our time with. And if we go back and ask ourselves, what's really the most important thing? Does our schedule and do our habits really reflect that? And to be honest, mind don't always reflect it. So ask the Lord, hey God, show me what I can remove from my life so that I can make room to fall in love with you more and love you with my heart and my soul and my mind. And the second most important thing that God tells us that matters most is loving others. Does your

Loving Others With Intention

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schedule make room to love others well? And this can get a little complicated because sometimes we try to love people the way we want to be loved. So you really need to think, how do the people I love receive love and understand love? And am I doing those things to help them feel love? Also, what can you remove from your schedule to love them better and love them well and love them in the power of Jesus' love? And if you didn't listen to the last two podcasts, they were all about being filled up to the fullness of God's love and how his love is better than our love and it's forever, it's powerful. So I really encourage you to go back and listen to those two podcasts if you haven't done that yet. Now,

Cutting Back to Care Better

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when I talk about removing things from our schedule in order to love others well, you can get a little uncomfortable because we live in a society that puts a lot, a lot of value on sports and extracurricular activities and being involved and all the things. And those are beautiful and we do that too. Look, I have a son who wants to be a professional soccer player. So I totally get it. But if practices and the pressure of that are getting in the way of them feeling loved, you may need to reassess. We've had to cut back on things sometimes when we feel like maybe emotions are starting to spiral in our home. If we can't slow down and take the time to nurture our kids because we're so busy, I think we need to reset. Collectively and individually, we need to reset. Because at the end of the day, we are standing before the Lord or we are on our deathbeds. Jesus is not going to say, Did you make time for all of those soccer practices? No. I do think he may ask us, Did you make time for what I told you matters most? So pray about it. Ask the Lord, is there anything that we need to cut back on in our schedule so we can love our children better in their own love language? And that's the second thing I wanted to come to is ask God to show you how do my kids understand love? And then ask him, can you show me how to love them in that way? If you haven't read the Five Love Languages book, it is so good. And I read it a long time ago, but it applies to your husband and your friends and your children. So if you want to check that out on Amazon, it's so helpful. Because maybe your kid is a quality time kid and that's how they understand love. How can you intentionally spend quality time with them? Can you go play pickleball with them? Can you just go for a walk with them? Can you sit down and even play their video game with them? Because to them that's quality time and they're gonna feel loved. Or is your kid like a gifts love language? Maybe you need to surprise them with a little gift in their backpack or something like that to make them feel loved. Maybe your kid is a words of affirmation person like me. So maybe you need to just sit down and write them a note and encourage them and tell them about the gifts you see in them. I really encourage you to take note of how your kid feels loved, how your husband feels loved, and actually make that part of your schedule for what matters most. So just to recap, is what matters most loving God with your whole heart and your mind and your soul? And if the answer is yes, are you making room in your schedule to live that

News Overload and Reprioritizing

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out loud? I had to have a reset the last couple weeks with my relationship with the Lord because there was so much going on in the news. I found myself like obsessed. I just had the news on at home, I had it on in the car. I was just completely saturated with it. It took up all my time. There was Bible studies I was putting aside, there was podcasts I wasn't listening to anymore, there was commentaries I wasn't reading, there was prayer time I wasn't taking because I just was devouring this news endlessly. And I had to really sit back and ask myself, is this what matters most? Because I'm acting like this is what matters most. So I had to cut that out. And the last week I had to keep the news off. I had to say no to certain things so I could say yes to God. So I challenge you to really ask God to reveal to you what's getting in the way of falling more in love with Him. To recap, the second one, is what matters most? Loving others. If the answer is yes to that, which I think a lot of moms listening would agree that they love their families so fierce, and they would say, Yes, that is what matters most, 100%. But then when you sit back and ask yourself, does my schedule and what I fit into my life, does it reflect that? Am I making room to act that out and live that out loud? And for me, my self-reflection this week was that I do tend to try to love my kids in the way I understand love, instead of taking the intentional time to ask myself, how do they feel love? And I think I I constantly have to come back to that and remind myself of that. And that's a discipline, and we're all guilty of it, and it's nothing wrong with that. Like for instance, for one of my kids, instead of writing them a really sweet text, how much I love them or how proud I am of them, it would actually mean more to that child if I asked them to jump in the car and go to the grocery store with me because their love language is quality time, but just being more intentional with our time for our kids and for our husbands. I certainly know how my husband feels loved. So we don't need to talk about that. Oh, my friends, I hope that this podcast episode encouraged you to sit back and think about what matters most and how you can make room for that in your time, especially with the holidays coming up.

Final Encouragement and CTA

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I'm so excited it actually feels like fall. If this podcast really spoke to you or touched your heart, if you could please share it with a friend and leave a review on the Apple Podcast, that would actually help me out so much because the more reviews I have and ratings I have, the easier it is for other moms to find this podcast. It would mean so much to me. Thank you so much, and I'll catch you next week. Have a good one. Get some pumpkin spice something. Bye. Don't forget to follow, save and share, and subscribe. You're awesome. Give it up for a mommy! Yes. Love it.