FAH in 5 Minutes: Leap for Joy

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

One of the hardest things to do is be joyful when our circumstances don't look the way we'd like them to. But when we look closely at the Christmas story, we are inspired by Elizabeth because of the way she leaped for joy in the midst of her pregnancy. How often do we sing hymns to Jesus and have a dance party when we don't feel like it? When you shift your mind toward what you are grateful for, everything in your life begins to change. Josh and Christi share practical ways to count your blessings and find reasons to throw a dance party in the holiday season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Famous at Home in five minutes.
0:04.0	Practical insights for creating a family of connection, celebration, and purpose.
0:10.0	One of the most fascinating parts of the Christmas story to me is when Mary goes to stay with Elizabeth.
0:20.0	Mary is pregnant with Jesus, and Elizabeth is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant
0:23.2	with John the Baptist. And as Mary walks into the house, the baby in Elizabeth's womb leaps for joy.
0:30.0	And Elizabeth herself lets out a loud cry. The girl was so full of joy.
0:36.0	I remember when my grandma, who we affectionately called me-ma,
0:38.8	was in gut-wrenching pain during her last days on earth.
0:41.8	As I sat with her planning her eulogy and the words she wanted to leave behind to loved ones,
0:47.3	her words to me through the pain were to be joyful.
0:51.3	That's it, I thought.
0:53.3	But as I lay beside her her soaking in the meaning of those
0:56.1	two simple words for her life, I heard her painfully singing hymns and humming to Jesus.
1:03.4	I realized in that moment that she understood suffering in ways I was ignorant to. She was
1:09.4	saying way more to me than two simple words that often seem impossible for us to
1:15.0	live out.
1:16.2	In her darkest hour and most painful moments of her life, she remained joyful, not because
1:21.8	of her circumstances, but because of the joy that Elizabeth and that baby experienced 2,000 years earlier.
1:31.5	Now, one way we keep Mi-Maw's message to be joyful, alive as a family, is by holding a dance party.
1:38.1	We make a playlist of some of our favorite Christmas songs.
1:41.2	We bring this makeshift stage in from the garage, and we add bouncing
1:45.1	lights and a karaoke microphone and we literally like leap for joy.
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