Family Connections Through Story & Song with Ellie Holcomb
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
[Special Series] Children’s book author and musician Ellie Holcomb (and her kiddos!) join our Peace in Uncertain Times series to share some ways they are connecting as a family while staying at home, including reading stories, making music together, and having family devotional time. Ellie reminds what we might be able to take away in this season, sharing that, “there's so much that we always have to be grateful for, because God is always faithful and He's always near.”
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling Family Devotional
Jesus Calling Social Media
Don’t Forget to Remember children’s book
See more videos around finding Peace for Uncertain Times on YouTube.com/JesusCalling Book
Interview Quotes:
“God is in the business of making all things new. And so I am so grateful for those tangible reminders of God's faithfulness.” - Ellie Holcomb
“Something that's really helpful during this season [of quarantine] is to name our losses rather than spending the energy, just burying them or trying to just stuff them down.” - Ellie Holcomb
“It helps us anytime we think about other people, it helps us get out of just our own selves and our own story.” - Ellie Holcomb
“[I am] so grateful for God's truth that can ground us and anchor our hearts down during a very uncertain and crazy storm that we are riding through.” - Ellie Holcomb speaking in reference to living life during COV-19 pandemic
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | God is in the business of making all things new and so I am so grateful for those tangible |
| 0:06.4 | reminders of God's faithfulness and this season it's been really really important for me to listen to the story that creation is telling |
| 0:16.0 | of God's faithfulness during this time and to tune in to that. |
| 0:20.4 | It has been a really sweet way for me and my kids to hang on to what's true during this kind of crazy season we're all facing |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to a special edition of the Jesus Calling podcast to help you find peace and uncertain times. |
| 0:34.0 | Our guest is singer-songwriter and children's book author, |
| 0:37.0 | Ellie Holcomb, who shares some ways she's connecting with her family |
| 0:40.0 | while staying at home, including Story and Song Time. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, I'm Ellie Holcomb, and I am a wife to Drew, a mom to Emmie Lou, Huck, and Rivers, and I'm also a singer-songwriter and children's book author. |
| 0:57.7 | So these are strange times that we are in with this COVID-19 health crisis and it has been a really a really hard |
| 1:08.4 | thing for so many people we are kind of in a time of collective. So that has been an interesting time |
| 1:13.7 | to be at home with your kids who can't go to school, |
| 1:17.4 | who can't see their friends. |
| 1:19.6 | And so I, it has been a really, a really hard thing, but also a really beautiful thing. |
| 1:26.7 | We're closing the days every day with a couple things. |
| 1:30.3 | One, it's been a really big gift to have dinner together. |
| 1:33.2 | We talk about our highs and our lows |
| 1:35.5 | and let each other into that. |
| 1:37.6 | I think something that's really helpful during this season |
| 1:40.8 | is to name our losses rather than spending the energy just |
| 1:46.3 | burying them or trying to just like stuff them down to just like go ahead and |
| 1:49.7 | say hey I was sad about this today I feel sad that I can't hug my friend. |
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