How A Short Psalm Can Reset Your Holiday Priorities | Season 9 | Bonus Episode (instant replay)

About this episode

The episode explores how Psalm 131 can help reset holiday priorities by emphasizing presence over performance.

Send us Fan Mail The lights are bright, the lists are longer, and yet something in us still aches for a quieter center. On Christmas Eve, we press pause on our regular series and lean into a short but piercing psalm—Psalm 131—to find a perspective that steadies the heart. Not a lecture, but a living-room moment: kids, tape, laughter, and the sudden clarity that presence beats performance and worship beats worry. We dig into the psalm’s core image of a weaned child—calm, content, and anchored...

People in this episode

Host: Bobi Gentry Goodwin

Topics covered

• holiday priorities
• psalm reflection
• spirituality
• Christmas
• presence over performance

Keywords

• Psalm 131
• holiday
• spiritual reflection
• Christmas Eve
• presence
• performance
• worship
• worry

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Psalm 131

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