330: Be at the Crossroads
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Corrine shares a message every parent or anyone navigating change needs to hear: always be at the crossroads. She reflects on what it means to show up for your kids at life’s transition points—whether it’s school drop-offs, post-practice pickups, or simply being there when they walk through the door.
She talks about the turbulence that comes with constant change in family life and how kids look to their parents to be the “calm pilot” who reassures them everything will be okay. Corrine also shares practical ways her family stays grounded through the chaos, like daily devotionals in the car, asking better questions after school, their “rose and thorn” dinner tradition, and ending the day with their beloved “prayer star.”
Through it all, this episode is a reminder that everything in life is a phase, the hard seasons, the sweet ones, and everything in between.
Resources:
- The Sacred Callings of Fathers and Mothers from the Life of Ezra Taft Benson: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-ezr[…]-15-the-sacred-callings-of-fathers-and-mothers?lang=eng
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friend. Okay, you just get me today again because we are still dealing with some |
| 0:11.9 | schedule changes over here with our family, with Bobby, our youngest, and just school and getting |
| 0:19.3 | him settled into a preschool and everything. |
| 0:21.8 | So because of that and the schedule not being totally set yet, |
| 0:28.4 | this is, you just get me. |
| 0:30.1 | So we're going to talk today about a topic that Neil and I have embraced for years now. |
| 0:36.9 | And I wish I could remember who shared |
| 0:40.4 | this in, I want to say maybe it was, it doesn't really seem like it was a sacrament meeting, |
| 0:46.4 | like a church talk, but maybe it was. |
| 0:48.3 | It was somewhere, though, where we heard this phrase, and we've just adopted it because when I heard it, it just felt so right. |
| 0:56.1 | And the phrase is, always be at the crossroads. |
| 1:01.9 | And when I heard that, I just, I loved it and I loved the context behind it. |
| 1:07.9 | And the reason why I'm bringing it up right now and it feels really relevant in my life |
| 1:12.6 | and possibly in yours too is because with a beginning of a school year and lots of changes, |
| 1:18.6 | it can feel like life is less stable than you're used to, right? It can feel that way for the |
| 1:24.7 | adults, for the kids, for everyone. And I still remember when I sat down with my friend |
| 1:30.7 | L. Raleigh and her husband, Jared, and we were talking to the two of them about working together. |
| 1:36.3 | And Neil and I were getting advice from them on like, okay, what, what's your greatest advice for us |
| 1:41.1 | as far as being a couple who works together, which Neil and I could do an episode |
| 1:45.0 | on that sometime. We could share with you what they shared and we could share with you what |
| 1:48.5 | our experience has been. But one of the things that just stuck out to me that I have thought about |
| 1:53.7 | so many times over the years is Elle said to me, as soon as you think you have it figured |
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