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A Safe Place to Share Messy Stories Jamie Ivey Ep 191

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Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

When she got married, Jamie Ivey became a pastor’s wife. Stepping into this role made her feel there was no one who she could be fully open with about her past. But, keeping these secrets kept her in shame and insecurity.

In her new book, If You Only Knew**, she shares how opening up about her past revealed the beauty of God’s grace in her life and about the freedom it has brought her and others.

(If you want to hear my “If You Only Knew” story about anxiety and anger, check it out over on Jamie’s “The Happy Hour” podcast.)

What we chat about:
  • Jamie Ivey’s story reconciling her past with her Christian walk.
  • How sharing your story can show the beauty of God’s grace and redemption.
  • Examining our underlying motivation for decisions.
  • We are not in control of our kids’ salvation and that is a good thing!
  • How to find a friend who is safe to share your full story with and how to be that type of friend.
  • We can have compassion for the broken when we realize that it’s only by the grace of God we haven’t made bigger mistakes.
  • Bringing discipline with your kids back around to the Gospel because that’s where the freedom lies.
  • The importance of community and allowing others to speak truth into our lives when we fall into places of shame and guilt.
  • God sees the righteousness of Jesus and not our shame when he looks at us.
  • When to tell our kids about our stories and how important it is to talk about sex and places of sin in our homes first.
“If You Only Knew” book **: Links Mentioned:

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the God Center Mom Podcast.

0:09.4

With me Heather McFaggin, you're listening to episode 191 where I invite and chat with

0:15.2

my friend and fellow podcaster Jamie Ivey.

0:18.8

She's the host of the Happy Hour Show and also the author of the new book, If You Only

0:23.0

New, where she bravely goes first and sharing the messy parts of her story and invites us

0:29.0

to create a community of authenticity and vulnerability where we could share how God has

0:34.8

redeemed our stories.

0:36.2

Yeah, and when I started to really learn that too is when I really started to understand

0:40.8

the depravity of ourself as people.

0:43.3

Without God we're just all sinful, dirt, I'm still sinful, but you know what I mean?

0:48.5

Like he sees me as righteous because of Jesus now, but without him man, we're just all

0:53.4

kind of the same wretched people.

0:55.5

And so let's say someone comes to you and it shares, I had an abortion when I was 19.

1:01.6

If your first thought is, well I could never do that.

1:05.0

Well that's a clue that you're not understanding how close we all are to these type of things.

1:10.8

You know what I mean?

1:11.8

And so I started to really learn, you know what, I'm capable of these things because I'm

1:16.3

a sinner.

1:17.3

And it's only by the grace of God that I haven't gone through these things.

1:20.9

And so I think when we kind of switch our minds up to be like, man, I could do that too.

1:26.0

I feel like that helps us to be a little bit more compassionate, understanding and less

1:30.2

finger pointing when we realize it is by the grace of God that we have that maybe walk

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