#748 Ruth Chou Simons on "Emmanuel: An Invitation" - with Kara Osborne
Revelation Wellness - Healthy & Whole
Alisa Keeton
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Thanks for joining us for this episode of the Revelation Wellness podcast! We are delighted today as Kara Osborne (one of our favorite guest hosts) sits down to talk with Ruth Chou Simons, an incredibly talented artist and author with much wisdom to share. In this episode, Ruth shares that the season of Advent isn't about meeting expectations but about getting out heart posture right. She asks a simple question that's going to have you rethinking how you enter this season.
Ruth has a brand new devotional that's a beautiful companion to walk with through the days leading up to Christmas. In Emmanuel: An Invitation to Prepare Him Room at Christmas and Always. Ruth invites you to posture your to enter into something so much richer and deeper in this season.
You can connect with Ruth: ruthchousimons.com
This month at Revelation Wellness, we prepare our hearts, homes, minds, spirits, and bodies to anticipate and celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation, God with us. Explore some of these resources to help your heart make room:
- Listen to Feels Like Joy by Micah Taylor
- Katrina's Christmas Choreo Mash-up "O'Holy Night"
- How to Stay Grounded in the Season – Advent Devotional Week 1
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Revelation Wellness friends, we are so glad that you are here with us today for a beautiful conversation that your heart needs to hear as we enter the Advent season. |
| 0:14.0 | Today our friend Cara is back hosting with us as she and artist, author, and friend. |
| 0:23.0 | Ruth, Joe, Simon sit down to talk about how we can posture our hearts, not to have the perfect Christmas, but to have a Christmas filled with the love of God who is with us. |
| 0:38.0 | This episode is filled with practical ways that you can release pressure and expectation and embrace the wonder that God came to bring us. |
| 0:50.0 | As we enter this season, we want to thank each and every one of our incredible donors who support the Revelation Wellness Ministry without your support. |
| 1:03.0 | This podcast would not be able to be on the airwaves sharing the good news of Jesus love. |
| 1:11.0 | Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being on mission with us throughout 2022. |
| 1:19.0 | And if you are not on mission with us yet, please consider partnering with us through your generosity as we train and equip those in their communities to serve as the hands and feet of Jesus. |
| 1:33.0 | You can swipe up to the show notes to learn more about how to become a partner with us today. |
| 1:41.0 | Your donations change generations to come as you empower our mission to share the gospel to the ends of the earth. |
| 1:50.0 | Thank you again friends for being here and we hope you enjoy today's episode. |
| 1:56.0 | Peace. |
| 1:58.0 | Okay, hey y'all and welcome to another episode of the Revelation Wellness Podcast. |
| 2:04.0 | I'm so glad that you play today and really excited for y'all to join me in hearing from Ruth Cho Simons. |
| 2:12.0 | Y'all are probably familiar with her as soon as I said her name, but Ruth is the author of eight books. |
| 2:17.0 | They're all really beautiful. If you've never seen them, they're really beautiful. |
| 2:21.0 | She's also an artist, the founder of Grace Laced. |
| 2:25.0 | She's a speaker. She's a wife and a mom of six boys and also an entrepreneur. |
| 2:31.0 | So Ruth, we are so glad you're here today. Thanks for saying yes to talking with us. |
| 2:36.0 | I'm so honored to be here so glad to finally get to come. |
| 2:39.0 | Yes, and today we're going to be talking about Ruth's newest book, which is called Emanuel. |
| 2:46.0 | And obviously we're excited to talk about that because I love Christmas. |
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