BONUS: Share: Seek Justice
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
“No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8 NLT)
How do we reconcile fairness in a world that is unjust and broken? I always tell my kids, fair does not mean equal. We can’t make everything fair in the world because fairness is how we are treated individually and everyone’s wants, situations, and abilities are different. Justice goes deeper than fairness. Justice is about what we deserve and we all deserve the same things.
In the Bible, justice means everyone—the poor, the widows, the orphans, the immigrants, are cared for just like everyone else.
Scripture calls us to care for these people, but that might seem really abstract to kids. So, we can teach our kids that seeking justice means including the kid with learning differences in class projects. Making sure the lonely kid is invited to the party. And it can mean standing up for what is right when someone is being wronged, bullied, or picked on. Actively seeking justice looks like our kids being a peacemaker instead of a peacekeeper and sometimes that is hard! But we are promised that the peacemakers will be called sons and daughters of God!
This week, let’s pray that our kids share God’s heart for others in the way they treat people around them. Let’s pray that our kids’ hearts break for what breaks God’s and that they see injustice in the world and have the courage and faith to stand up to it.
God, I pray that _______________ will see what is right, love what is right, and humbly do what is right in your name. In an unjust world, I pray that _____________ will seek justice in all situations. When they see someone being mistreated, give them the courage to step in. When they see the opportunity to help, give them the ability to do so. I pray that as they grow they see injustices beyond their small communities and in the greater world and do what is in their power to right them. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Courtney Defeo and you have found yourself at week 35 of a prayer episode. We pray together |
| 0:22.8 | every Monday and I'm so excited you're back. Before we get into today's episode, first I want to ask |
| 0:28.0 | you, can you leave a review? If you haven't done that before, it would mean so much to me and to |
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| 0:44.5 | why you love Mondays or Thursdays. And that again will help so many moms as they're going |
| 0:49.0 | about looking for a Christian parenting podcast. They can kind of click on it and see what's this |
| 0:53.3 | one about and why is it unique. And so that would help me a ton if you would do that. Also, story time. |
| 0:59.5 | So we're in the time of senior year where everything is the last. It's the last time we'll do |
| 1:05.8 | this. It's the last this. And it will choke me up. But also, it's just so sweet. And so we had a choir concert for Ella |
| 1:13.7 | because she started in choir when she was a freshman with two of her very best friends and they |
| 1:18.1 | have stuck in it together, the three of them, for the last four years. They've had the most |
| 1:22.6 | phenomenal teacher. Shout out to Patty Martin, who is just a solid gold human that came out of retirement |
| 1:29.3 | back into teaching and being a choir director. And I'm just so grateful because she's poured |
| 1:34.5 | into Ella in such a beautiful way. But she was singing, obviously, at her last performance. |
| 1:40.7 | And I was such a mess because I had already started tearing up, just watching them and to really be present and this is the last time I'll see you're seeing on this |
| 1:47.9 | stage with these people at this time and just kind of really be present. So I'd put my phone in my |
| 1:52.0 | lap and try not to be on it because I knew Larson was recording and saw a couple of my friends |
| 1:56.3 | that were recording. So they get to a song that they're going to sing just the three of them as seniors. And they |
| 2:01.1 | stand up and they sing a landslide. Y'all remember landslide? So it's, you know, there's many |
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