From Spy to King: Releasing the Assignments of Old to Lead Your Family Into What's New

About this episode

Josh discusses the importance of releasing past assignments to lead your family into a new season with intentionality.

After a break with family and a slower pace of life, Josh returns with some existential questions, one in particular that's been sitting heavy: Am I conforming to what everyone else around me is doing, or am I "appointing" my time well with the people who need me most ? Drawing from Isaiah 43, Psalm 90, and Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning , Josh walks through what it looks like to grieve the past well, release the assignments of old, and step fully into the season God has for your family right now. He further unpacks how sweetening retrospect—or nostalgically living in the past—can breed depression, how anxiety about the future keeps us from the present, and why the mundane drive-time moments are shaping the hearts of your children more than you realize. A practical, honest reset if you're catching yourself distracted or not as intentional as you wish you might be. ** Thank you to Bernhardt Watches for sponsoring this episode! Click here and be sure to use the code FAMOUS at checkout for free shipping! https://www.bernhardtwatch.com/ Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:05 A podcast and Straub family update 4:00 What we learned being out of the country and the lessons it’s…

People in this episode

Host: Josh Straub

Topics covered

• family leadership
• intentional parenting
• grieving the past
• anxiety about the future
• present moment awareness

Keywords

• family
• parenting
• nostalgia
• anxiety
• present moment
• existential questions
• spirituality

Sponsors

Bernhardt Watches

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Man's Search for Meaning

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