Adoption, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and a ‘Surrendered Yes” with Rebekah Lyons
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
November is National Adoption Month, and I’m thrilled to be talking with Rebekah Lyons about adoption, following God’s callings, and what a ‘surrendered yes’ looks like in each of our lives.
And then there’s the fact that I’m slightly obsessed with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, and Rebekah (having lived in NYC for several years) tells us all about it. Basically I’ve reconfirmed my commitment to get there someday very soon!
Here are some of the important topics we cover in today’s show:
- The gift of adoption and the many ways God can show us how losing our lives is really gaining true life
- The three parts of a surrendered yes and what that means in your own life
- A pivotal question to ask yourself when considering if you’re obedient to God’s callings
I can’t wait for you to hear today’s show, and, in honor of National Adoption Month, I give you a recent picture of my sweet little one (along with a few links to articles I’ve written about our adoption journey).
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:02.0 | This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.0 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching |
| 0:21.0 | us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk the parenting |
| 0:26.5 | road alone. You probably don't need me to tell you that Christmas is coming our way and it's coming |
| 0:35.3 | fast. And depending on where you are in your parenting journey, |
| 0:38.2 | this can be an exciting thing, an overwhelming thing, or maybe it's a little bit of both. But here's |
| 0:42.8 | the deal. Christmas time doesn't have to be an exhausting survival mode time of year. It can be a |
| 0:47.6 | season of renewal as we anticipate the birth and celebration of Jesus Christ. And so it's for this very |
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| 1:33.7 | you're with us say it is no member and super exciting because we are really |
| 1:38.5 | officially getting into the holidays but as we do that I also want to point out that |
| 1:42.6 | november is national adoption, and it does not |
| 1:45.0 | take long for you to listen to pardon to us to know how much adoption is meant to my husband and I and to our family as we have adopted our youngest. |
| 1:52.0 | And in fact, his gotcha day is the end of November. And so this is a particularly sweet time of the year for our family. |
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