I have a friend who has five littles all under the age of 10. We are in a facebook group together and she is always posting about these great sermons she is listening to.
I have seven children, three of whom are not home on any kind of regular basis and the other four who range in age from 9 to 16. I never listen to recorded sermons.
"How can you listen to anything, other than your children, with all of those little kids?" I asked her one day. I can't even put on music or play a youtube video without, and I am NOT kidding about this, at least half of the people who are home coming over to see what I'm doing. It seems like the moment I try to listen to something I have people asking me questions or running over to tell me a story, which is all fine and dandy, but really very distracting.
Her answer was that she does it early in the morning while she's getting ready or while the kids are napping and that yes, she does hit pause a lot if she tries to do it at any other time.
My solution was then to initiate a mandatory nap time for everyone. After realizing that that wasn't going to work, I made a mandatory nap time for me. SCORE.
No, really what I did was find this site on my Kindle and put my earbuds in while I was making up my weekly menu and my grocery list. Everyone usually leaves me alone during this time because they know how crabby it makes me, and listening to a great sermon made the time go by a bit faster and the task a bit more pleasant. While it might only be once a week, at least it is one more time than before, which was zero.
There are a gazillion choices of great sounding sermons to listen to on audiosancto, so if you get a chance, hop over there and check some out.
God Bless!
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