Christian Parenting.

Welcome to Pardon the Miss.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents.

It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me.

But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy,

but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful

and messy journey of parenting.

So let me begin by saying that you might hear some banging because we're getting a new roof this week and they are trying to finish up, but I'm telling you, this dog will not stop barking.

She thinks her someone at the door every two seconds. I'm like, oh, good thing you're pretty,

because you are really not smart. She really gets, like, completely freaked out at all the bagings. So,

I was leaving earlier to take her to doggy daycare, to get her out of my way, and to stop the barking,

and I was going to the car, can't get her to come on because she's licking a chicken bone. I'm like,

where did you find a chicken bone? Apparently, folks that were doing the

roof yesterday decided to have lunch in my yard and just left the wings there, like the leftover

bones. So that's fine. That's what's going on here. But today we have a very exciting guest. I

don't know how I get from chicken wings to Lisa, but it feels right for me. So dear friend, lover to pieces,

Lisa Turkhurst, if you don't know who she is,

she is the president and founder of Proverbs 31 Ministries that reaches millions of women and people

across the globe. Really, she's been writing for decades, author of so many fantastic books and

Bible studies and one of the best speakers I've ever heard. But the last, I would probably

say, I'm guessing here, maybe five or six books that she's done have all gone New York Times

bestseller and just blown things out of the water. And here's my hypothesis. Here's why I think

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