#243: The Becoming Years with Ruth Chou Simons
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like your life is on hold as you raise small children? Might you spend too much time idolizing the wrong things? Find yourself fixating on a clean house? Maybe pointing out imperfections in others? You will never want this episode to end! Ruth shares with us what she has ascertained as a parent to SIX boys over the past 18 years. We talk: resolving conflict, the actual purpose, and the importance of memorizing scripture, why your job is so important, and an overall reminder of where our eyes should be as we train our young ones.
Ruth Chou Simons is an entrepreneur, speaker, and bestselling author of Beholding and Becoming and GraceLaced. She shares her journey of God’s grace intersecting daily life with word and paintbrush through an online shop at GraceLaced.com and her Instagram community of more than a hundred thousand. Ruth and her husband, Troy, are grateful parents to six boys—their greatest adventure.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
social distancing with 7 guys in the house
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normalizing conflict resolution
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the power of preaching to ourselves to control our inner narrative
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applying the gospel to your day-to-day life
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embracing your parenting years as an opportunity to grow
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the biblical foundations for a healthy family
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taking the pressure off family devotions
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self-check - are we praying about it more than we’re complaining about it?
Beholding and Becoming Foundations: 12 Biblical Truths to Shape a Healthy Family
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all ready for something new. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, you thought it was just burgers and fries. |
| 0:06.0 | They got more flavors than you taste it or you heard in your life. |
| 0:09.0 | Yup it. |
| 0:10.0 | It ain't only restaurants anymore. |
| 0:12.0 | We can go bananas at the grocery store. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a bad girl for my take-out battle. What you need do? I could cop a taco pedal. |
| 0:20.0 | And my sushi train is on loop. When when you're this slick what you gonna do |
| 0:26.0 | Did somebody say just it? |
| 0:30.0 | I do turn this are you into that into a would you rather? |
| 0:35.0 | So I have a would you rather but really it's an are you that, but I could frame it as it would you rather. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay, so something new on the horizon. |
| 0:47.0 | It's not just leggings, but make the leggings go all the way up to your arms over your shoulders, body suits. |
| 0:54.5 | 1991 has come back. |
| 0:57.8 | Batsuits, it's a thing where you just wear a body suit. Would you rather do that or would you rather throw yourself out of a building? |
| 1:07.0 | Because oh my gosh, I can't even... |
| 1:11.0 | No, that's a nightmare. |
| 1:13.0 | Body suit. I'd literally rather go outside naked. |
| 1:17.0 | Me too. |
| 1:19.0 | At least then people would look away. |
| 1:21.0 | They think a body suit they might linger like, |
| 1:24.2 | what's happening under there? |
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