142. Worship Suffocates Worry (with Katie Reid)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should you be napping? I resonate so deeply with today's topic and I brought my friend</span> <a href="https://www.katiemreid.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Katie Reid</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, who brings so much wisdom, experience, and encouragement to today’s discussion. Katie wrote the book,</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Made-Like-Martha-Woman-Things/dp/0735291268/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1633303541&sr=8-1"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Made Like Martha: Good News for the Woman Who Gets Things Done</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and we just want to speak to you if you are feeling overwhelmed with life, if you struggle with worry and like me, are a problem solver and a fixer and just struggle. There is nothing wrong with being a do-er but if you are looking on how to find the balance of being and going - resting in the lord but also being productive, today’s topic is for you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katie Reid is an author, speaker, podcast host, and worship leader. Katie has been married for 20 years and has 5 kids. The girls are the bookends with the oldest being 17 and the youngest is a kindergarten and three boys in the middle. Katie is not bored</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katie shares some insight on what worship and worrying look like to her. Worry was a default emotion for so long, for Katie. There are so many things to worry about, especially being moms but Katie explains that worry makes us promises and makes us feel like we are feeling productive. When really, the more we feed it the more it grows.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We look at the differences between Mary and Martha and share some stories from the bible. Both Kaite and I are do-ers, we like to have plans and have things to do. We are planners,  problem solvers, and we like lists and checking things off the list. But as people with all these plans and things to do, this could be som