becoming & beholding (interview with Ruth Chou Simons)
The Real Life Podcast
Jefferson Bethke
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
listen this week as Alyssa chats with one of her favorite people, Ruth Simons! She's a mom, an author, and an incredible creative and artist!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's brought to you by Legacy Box. There's never been a better time to digitally preserve your memories. |
| 0:04.2 | Get 40% off on your first order when you go to Legacybox.com slash Love. |
| 0:08.0 | Today's show is also brought to you by Brooklynin and get 10% off in free shipping when you use the promo code real at Brooklynin.com. |
| 0:16.0 | Ultimately, God gives us 24 hours in a day and those 24 hours are filled with lots of things that we would not necessarily choose to |
| 0:24.7 | fill our days with boring things laundry answering phone calls clearing |
| 0:29.9 | inboxes and for those of us who are parents a lot of times it's spent saying the same |
| 0:35.2 | thing over and over and over again with our kids wondering if we're making any |
| 0:39.6 | difference at all. Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast where we talk about exactly that every |
| 0:48.3 | single week, real life, which means some episodes might be about a fight we just had, some episodes might be about |
| 0:54.8 | potty training since we have two toddlers, and some might be about eschatological realism because I love thinking |
| 1:00.4 | and talking about |
| 1:03.6 | all three of those in one episode. |
| 1:05.6 | But we hope the show feels like hanging out |
| 1:07.2 | in our living room with us drinking a cup of coffee |
| 1:10.2 | as we discuss faith and family and culture and Jesus. |
| 1:14.0 | Me and my lovely wife, Alyssa, are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach out on |
| 1:18.7 | social media to say hi or comment on this week's episode. |
| 1:22.3 | Enjoy. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast. I am so so so so excited about today. I am |
| 1:37.3 | interviewing Ruth Chow Simons. Did I say that right? Ruth? It's Ruth Joe |
| 1:42.0 | Simons, but girl, girl. You would not know it's you're good you're |
| 1:46.0 | good I'm sorry I was so focused on the Simons I was like I know it's not Simmons |
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