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Daily Devotions for Busy Lives

Daily Devotions for Busy Lives

著者： Bart Leger
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 Too busy for quiet time this morning? Spirit running on empty before your day even starts? This short daily podcast helps you reconnect with God without rearranging your whole schedule. Join Dr. Bart Leger each weekday morning for a few minutes of Scripture, real-life encouragement, and a simple way to apply God’s truth—right where you are. Perfect for your morning routine, commute, or any moment you can pause and breathe to help you reset your heart and refocus your day, no matter how full your schedule is.© 2025 Daily Devotions for Busy Lives キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
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  • How to Rest Without Feeling Like You're Falling Behind

    How to Rest Without Feeling Like You're Falling Behind
    2026/05/15
    Most of us wait until the work slows down before we rest. It never slows down. In this episode, discover what Genesis 2 and decades of workplace research say about rest as something you were built for, not something you earn.Two researchers named Charlotte Fritz and Sabine Sonnentag spent years tracking what happens to workers who never fully stop. Study after study showed the same pattern: the workers who protected their off time and fully disengaged during evenings and weekends came back more focused and more productive than the ones who kept going. The gap between the 2 groups widened over time. The workers who pushed through weren't gaining ground. They were losing it.Most of us know that pace doesn't slow down on its own. What Fritz and Sonnentag confirmed is that waiting for it to slow down before you rest is exactly backwards. The workers who planned to catch up someday kept falling further behind. The ones who stopped regularly pulled ahead.This episode is for the person who struggles to stop when things are still undone. We feel like we haven't earned the rest yet, and by the time we feel like we have, we're already past the point where it would have helped most.Genesis 2:2-3 records that God rested on the seventh day. He stopped because stopping was part of the design. He was building a rhythm into the fabric of time itself, and He modeled it before anyone else was there to follow it. Fritz and Sonnentag's data confirms what Genesis established: the people who protected their rest were built for that rhythm, and they were living inside it.This episode covers rest at all 3 levels the research and Scripture both point toward. The first is daily rest, a full stop of even 20 minutes where you put the phone down and completely disengage. The second is weekly rest, protecting one day where work genuinely stops. The third is longer intentional rest, a vacation where the laptop stays home, a break long enough to step entirely out of your normal routine. Fritz and Sonnentag found that these longer breaks produce the deepest recovery, and that the people who need them most are the ones most likely to skip them.This episode includes a personal disclosure. For most of my life I've struggled to stop when there are still things undone. As I've gotten older, I've learned to take a short nap every day after lunch. What I found was that the rest wasn't costing me time. It was giving it back.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why the workers who pushed through weren't gaining ground, and what Fritz and Sonnentag's research found about regular detachmentWhat Genesis 2:2-3 reveals about rest as a design feature built into the structure of time itselfA concrete challenge at each level of rest, with a specific action to put on your calendar before the week endsRest is part of the design. The rhythm is built in. You just have to choose to live inside it.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/239Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here.Mentioned in this episode:Join Our Private Facebook CommunityIf you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group
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    8 分
  • The One Thing That Will Follow You Until You Deal with It

    The One Thing That Will Follow You Until You Deal with It
    2026/05/14
    Most of us know what it feels like to carry something unresolved for longer than we should. In this episode, discover what Acts 24:16 says about a clear conscience, and what it costs to get one back.In the summer of 2014, a 15-year-old girl walked into a bookstore in Miami and walked out with a copy of Agatha Christie's Third Girl without paying. She immediately regretted it. Two years later, she walked back in and left an envelope on the front desk. Inside was $16, the $14 cover price plus $2 in interest, and a letter she'd written herself.She'd moved to Mexico. She'd built a new life. But the book had stayed in the back of her mind the whole time.Most of us know the feeling she was carrying, something unresolved that's been there long enough you've almost stopped noticing it. A conversation that went wrong and was never corrected. A relationship you never went back to repair. You've told yourself it was too long ago, that the other person has forgotten. And yet it's still there.A guilty conscience doesn't disappear on its own. It waits.Paul said in Acts 24:16 that he made it his goal to maintain a clear conscience before God and before all people. Both mattered to him. He described it as something you maintain, which means it requires ongoing attention. Most people don't talk about their conscience much, but most people know when they don't have a clear one.The Greek word Paul uses for conscience is the word that gives us the idea of a witness. Your conscience was there. You can distract yourself from it and soften the story you tell yourself around it, but you can't make it forget what it saw.What keeps people from dealing with these things is usually shame or the belief that too much time has passed. The problem is that carrying the thing doesn't make it go away.When the girl finally walked back into Books & Books and left her envelope, she described exactly what Paul is talking about. She wrote that she wanted to relieve herself of her guilty conscience. That's what a clear conscience feels like when you've been carrying something: setting down something you didn't realize how tired you were from carrying.Through her story and Acts 24:16, this episode makes the case that a clear conscience is available, and that the steps to getting one are plain, even if they're costly.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why a guilty conscience doesn't disappear over time, and what your conscience is doing while you waitWhat Paul meant when he described maintaining a clear conscience before God and all people in Acts 24:162 practical steps you can take this week to begin dealing with the thing you've been putting offThe relief on the other side of dealing with it is worth every uncomfortable step it takes to get there.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/238Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here.Mentioned in this episode:Join Our Private Facebook CommunityIf you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group
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    8 分
  • When Your Loss Doesn't Come with a Casserole

    When Your Loss Doesn't Come with a Casserole
    2026/05/13
    Some losses come with a casserole and a card. Others you carry alone because the world doesn't have a name for them. In this episode, discover what Psalm 34:18 says about which broken hearts God draws close to.Ryan Cole and his wife Kelsi had the nursery ready and the bags packed when they lost their son Whitson at 36 weeks. After he died, the support poured in for Kelsi. Meals arrived and messages filled the mailbox. People sat with her through the worst days. That's what the community of faith does when a mother loses a baby, and the people around them did it well.Nobody called Ryan.He said later that men are the overlooked partners in pregnancy loss. The grief is present, the loss is his, but nobody has built a category for it. The world doesn't have a script for that conversation, so most men carry it in silence. By the time Ryan started talking publicly about what he and Kelsi had been through, they had lost five pregnancies. He co-founded Foreknown Ministries so other fathers wouldn't have to carry what he carried alone.Ryan's story opens an episode about something most of us have experienced but rarely have a name for: the loss that doesn't come with a casserole.Some grief the world knows how to receive. Someone dies after a long illness, the church brings food, the cards arrive. People ask how you're doing for weeks. But there's another category that comes with none of that. The miscarriage early enough that nobody knew you were pregnant. The friendship that ended without explanation and the dream you let go of without telling anyone. The loss is yours, and the world doesn't have a name for it, so you carry it alone.Psalm 34:18 says the LORD is close to the brokenhearted. It leaves the category blank. Your name is already on that list, regardless of whether anyone else knew to bring a casserole.Katharine and I lost a granddaughter at full term. Our daughter and son-in-law named her Hope. I held her lifeless little body, and I wasn't ashamed to cry. That loss didn't fit a neat category either. Grandparents aren't always who people think to call. But the grief was there, and it was ours.Through Ryan's story and Psalm 34:18, this episode stays close to that grief and names it before asking anything of the person carrying it.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why unrecognized grief tends to go underground when there's no one to bring it to, and what it does when it stays thereWhat Psalm 34:18 says about which kind of broken heart God draws close to, and why the category doesn't matterOne specific thing you can do today with the loss you've been carrying without a nameThe size of your loss is not determined by whether the people around you recognized it. God sees it. And He is close.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/237Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here.Mentioned in this episode:Join Our Private Facebook CommunityIf you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group
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    7 分
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