Following God’s call on your life with Harmony Klingenmeyer
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It was about seven years ago when my husband and I realized the Lord was nudging us to explore foster care. And just in case you’re new to the Pardon the Mess family, the long story is we finally did what we were called to do and our lives are forever changed by fostering and adopting our little one, JB.
As I look back on my 20s and 30s, I kind of wish someone would have kicked me in the pants and told me to slow down and pray about God’s unique calling for my life. Maybe it should have been obvious, but I was so busy chasing after my own dreams that I wonder how many of God’s dreams I overlooked in the process.
Because of this, I want to very honestly ask if you’ve prayed about God’s calling for your life right now? Do you know that he has very specific plans for your life which he created long before you took even one breath? Might I encourage you to not fall into the trap I did for so long of missing his still quiet voice because of busy schedules and big agendas.
We’re talking about all of this today, and I’m thrilled to have Harmony Klingenmeyer with me. We discuss the good, bad, and ugly of foster care—however, my prayer is that you will take foster care and use it as the blank to fill in for whatever God is calling you to.
I hope you’ll take a few minutes to listen to today’s show and then stop and pray that God will reveal any callings on your life that you may be missing. Take it from me—chasing after the things of God will change your life forever, and I’ve got a 5 year old cutie to prove it!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:02.0 | This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.0 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk |
| 0:26.1 | the parenting road alone. Hey friends, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I am so glad you're with us today. |
| 0:35.4 | We have Harmony Klingen-yer with us and Harmony and I are |
| 0:38.8 | talking all things foster care today. It is May, which is National Foster Care Month, |
| 0:43.9 | and I cannot let it pass without having a little discussion around foster care because it is |
| 0:49.3 | so deeply impacted my family, as you know. And before you hear this and say, ah, I'm not so into foster care. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm going to move on to the next podcast. I just urge you to stop and listen because first and foremost, |
| 1:02.6 | I know foster care is hard and so many of us are not called to it. And I don't think there's |
| 1:06.8 | anyone that's like, ooh, I can't wait. I think I'll go into foster care. It's difficult. It is a hard calling, but I also think it's so important. And I think so many are called into it, |
| 1:15.5 | but don't know exactly what it looks like. And so odds are, if you're listening to this, |
| 1:18.9 | maybe Lord's speaking into you a little bit in this area. But even if not, we're talking just |
| 1:23.3 | bigger picture about following the things God has for our families and the impact that has on our |
| 1:28.9 | children. And so I would just encourage you to listen to prayerfully consider where the Lord would |
| 1:34.2 | have you go. What path would he have you take that you would never take on your own? What would |
| 1:39.2 | that look like? And, you know, Jenny Allen says in one of her books I read recently that she went through a stage with her husband, like a phase where all they did was prayed, anything, Lord. |
| 1:49.6 | Whatever you want, Lord, anything that you call us to do, we will do. |
| 1:53.6 | And Jenny talks about how that was the beginnings of the if gathering. |
| 1:57.3 | And I just wonder in our own lives if we would do that today. |
| 2:00.0 | If we stopped and just started |
| 2:01.2 | praying anything, Lord, whatever it is you have, anything we will do it. What are the places |
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