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Famous at Home

#21: Lisa Harper–Adoption, Single Parenting, and Living Happy!

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9653 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Part of the vision of In This Together with Dr. Josh + Christi is to be a podcast where we interview guests to discover how their stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Today's guest is the epitome of what it means to live a great story. 

Rarely are the terms hilarious storyteller and theological scholar used in the same sentence, much less used to describe the same person. But then again, Lisa Harper is anything but stereotypical! Listen for a few minutes and you'll see why.

Lisa a gem. In this episode, she shares her journey with adoption, losing two, before adopting her precious daughter, Missy.

In addition, Lisa hilariously, yet truthfully, gives us incredibly practical advice on living happy. And no it's not sinful to be happy. In fact, Jesus teaches about it. Lisa encourages exhausted moms, single parents, and families in the trenches. She even lovingly calls us out as parents (hint: we do trauma, but we don't do drama).

You'll hear Lisa's heart behind her latest book, The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to Wounded World. Be prepared to laugh and walk away feeling less guilty, and more inspired, about your parenting.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We all have family picture frames.

0:11.0

Who are the people in yours?

0:13.0

I'm Josh.

0:14.0

And I'm Christy.

0:15.0

In This Together is a podcast where we go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame.

0:22.0

And interview guests to discover how their stories can give us insight on becoming families

0:27.2

who live, love, and lead well. Because you're not alone. We're all in this together.

0:47.6

We want to welcome you back to season two of the dr josh and christie podcast and it is a delight today to have none other than lisa harper with us on the podcast you say none other my mother is

0:53.7

the only person who would like know know my name would be excited.

0:57.3

None other.

0:58.2

I'm like, that is pretty impressive.

1:00.1

That's high cotton there, Josh.

1:01.6

Hey, we are.

1:02.9

We're so excited.

1:04.1

We are, and very honored to have you.

1:06.1

So I just want to get started.

1:07.8

I think it's, we've having conversation here already for a long period of time.

1:12.7

We've already had a couple of shows.

1:13.7

I know.

1:14.1

You turn the mic on.

1:15.1

So we want to cover a number of different topics today.

1:20.3

The first one is I would just love for you to tell our audience a little bit of your story,

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