Letting Go of Old Assignments to Lead Your Family Into New Seasons

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.

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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 teaching me

8:45 Upcoming Famous at Home cohorts

10:20 The existential questions about what matters and why we make the decisions we do

15:03 How the nostalgia of the past keeps us from moving into a new season with our kids