A Veterans Day Special with Ginger Gilbert Ravella
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As we honor our veterans this week and their great sacrifice for our country, we are thrilled to have Ginger Gilbert Ravella join us on Pardon the Mess.
Ginger is a mother of five, stepmother of two, military wife, writer, and speaker. At thirty-six years old, she faced the sudden, tragic loss of her college-sweetheart husband and Air Force F-16 pilot in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her husband, Major Troy Gilbert, gave his life while saving over twenty Special Operation soldiers.
As Ginger so beautifully puts it, “He was a hero every day, but that day he became an American hero.” Major Gilbert left behind five beautiful children under the age of nine and a wife who spent the following days wrestling with God in the midst of deep despair and depression.
Ginger learned that Iraqi insurgents had taken her husband’s body, thereby repeatedly making their story a CNN headline as multiple attempts were made to recover his body. Her testimony is so powerful, reminding us that God is enough even in the darkest places and how he prepared her well in advance for the hard days that were to come.
Ginger is now remarried to another Air Force pilot, Colonel Jim Ravella (Ret), who lost his wife to breast cancer. Ginger shares advice on blended families, grief, ministering to widows, and wrestling with God in the hard places of life.
Ginger and Jim Ravella continue to tirelessly support and raise funds to help fallen and disabled veterans and their families. Their inspirational memoir, Hope Found, weaves together their real-life struggles, vulnerable faith, and unshakable patriotism.
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| 0:40.5 | series of Pardon the Mess straight from Nashville. Yes, that's right. We had the great |
| 0:45.0 | privilege of spending some time in Nashville recently and living our best life recording some |
| 0:49.5 | pretty amazing people. As always, our goal is to provide you real truth and vulnerability and parenting, |
| 0:55.6 | always pointing back to the Lord's bigger picture for our families. And what a gift to be in Nashville |
| 1:00.0 | talking to all kinds of people on all kinds of walks and journeys in their faith and hearing |
| 1:04.4 | how God's working in their families. One thing you can always count on with our show is that we |
| 1:08.9 | will keep it honest and vulnerable. Like we often say, there's no perfect parents, just a perfect God who stands ready to pardon our mess and guide us on the most challenging yet rewarding journey, parenting. |
| 1:20.5 | Straight from Nashville, here we go. |
| 1:22.6 | Hey, friends, welcome to pardon the mess, and I am so glad you are with us again today. |
| 1:28.1 | I got to start with just my random thought of the day, which is kind of scary when I just start with a random thought. |
| 1:32.9 | But what a blessing that we get to do Pardon the Mess. |
| 1:36.1 | And I just want to thank y'all for being a part of it and for listening and for being so faithful to leave reviews and sharing it with your friends. |
| 1:42.9 | And just struck me and Jill who works |
| 1:45.2 | with me who schedules everything and is like amazing and finds the most amazing people for us to talk to |
| 1:50.8 | but just how blessed we have been with this podcast and how the Lord's hand has been on it. |
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