EP 215 // Wealthy isn’t about Money, but Living a Jesus Centered Life You Enjoy & Where to Start

Hey Friend

Today I want to talk about a kind of wealth most of us never grew up hearing about.
Not financial wealth…
Not the kind you measure with a bank account…

But the kind you feel in your soul.

The kind of wealth that shows up as peace, space, rest, and the ability to breathe.

What if true wealth isn’t about money at all… but about margin?
Margin in your schedule, your mind, your home, and your spirit.

And what if the life you’re longing for isn’t waiting on a raise, or a better job, or a perfect season… but simply on creating room for joy again?

Let’s talk about that today.

Most moms today aren’t struggling with financial poverty, though some absolutely are.
But almost every mom I talk to is struggling with overwhelm poverty.  Everyone is stressed out.

No time. No energy. No quiet. No space to think. No space to breathe.

And when there’s no margin, even the simple parts of life feel heavy.

Dinner feels like a mountain.
Laundry feels impossible.
Relationships feel squeezed.
God feels distant, not because He moved, but because the noise drowned Him out.

This is the poverty the world doesn’t talk about. And this is the poverty Jesus came to lift us out of.

When you look at Jesus’ life, He never rushed & He didn’t keep a tight schedule.

He walked everywhere. He paused for people. He rested. He withdrew to quiet places. He said no to crowds so He could say yes to the Father.

He lived with margin.

If the Savior of the world wasn’t in a hurry, maybe the pressure we feel to fill every minute isn’t coming from God.

Maybe it’s coming from expectations we were never meant to carry.

Margin is something you create, not something you find.

And the beautiful thing?  You can build it right where you are, starting small.

Margin looks like:
• one simple system that gives you your evenings back
• meals prepped in two hours once a week so dinner is never an emergency
• choosing fewer commitments so you can be fully present
• building rhythms instead of living in reaction mode

Every bit of margin you create is like depositing peace into a bank account.
Bit by bit, your life starts feeling lighter, calmer, more intentional.

That’s wealth.

When your home gets simpler, your heart gets quieter.

And in the quiet, you can hear God again.

When dinner is already made, you’re not cooking in survival mode, you have space for conversation, connection, prayer, laughter.

This is where the real riches start showing up:
peace in your home, joy in your relationships, clarity in your calling,
and a deeper awareness of God’s presence in the middle of everyday life.

That is abundance.
And no paycheck can buy it.

I want to give you one small, doable step to start practicing margin:

Pick one area of your week where you’re always stressed… and create a simple system for it.

Just one.

If meals are the stress?  Try cooking once and eating all week.
If mornings are chaotic?  Create a 10-minute evening reset to prepare for tomorrow.
If your calendar feels loud?  Choose one thing to say no to this month.

Small changes multiply and every bit of margin you create shifts your life toward peace.

Friend, you deserve to live a life you actually enjoy.
A Jesus-centered, peaceful, simple life isn’t a luxury, it’s part of the abundant life He promised.

And it starts with margin.

Not perfection. Not performance. Just space.

Space to breathe. Space to hear God. Space to live.

 

Here is the link to the FREE NO spend challenge!  See you inside!

https://stan.store/ClaimingSimplicity

 

~Monica