Getting Organized for Christmas

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Author Kathi Lipp offers practical suggestions for planning your family’s Christmas celebration so that it can be budget-friendly, stress-free and Christ-centered.

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0:00.0	When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.
0:09.0	He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the
0:14.1	blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value
0:18.7	relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.
0:27.0	We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,
0:38.0	just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.
0:45.2	I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.
0:48.2	Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's.
0:51.8	When you donate today, your gift will be doubled at focus on the family.com
0:56.4	slash gift.
1:00.8	I would like us to come out of Christmas better than we entered and so this is what I'm saying
1:06.9	oftentimes if we are not purposeful about what we want to do about Christmas
1:17.0	then we're going to let others dictate what it's going to look like. That's Kathy Lipp, and she's our guest today on Focus on the Family.
1:21.0	Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.
1:24.4	Today we're going to help you get organized for Christmas and we all said yahoo.
1:28.9	Yay! And you may be thinking it's a little early to be planning for Christmas, but it's just a few short weeks away folks
1:36.6	And the time around the holidays also seems to go by with lightning speed
1:49.0	Cathay Lip is one of our most popular guests and has some great tips to take some of the pressure off at Christmas time. She has a book titled Get Yourself Organized for Christmas. Simple Steps to Enjoying the Season.
1:56.0	And I know you're going to really enjoy what she has to say.
1:59.0	And we've got that book here at Focus on the Family and you'll find the link in the episode notes.
2:04.0	As Jim indicated, Kathy is really one of our most popular guests and she's known for her
2:08.8	humor and her heart and we're going to pick up the program Jim as you welcomed her.
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