MFP 164: Embracing the Messiness of Family Life

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Kids & Family

4.9 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We talk a lot on our program about the "messy-ness" of life, but we thought it would be good to take some time to unpack why exactly we use this term and why it's so important to every family. Every family is a messy family because we live in a broken, fallen world and we constantly are trying to repair relationships and situations that have ruptured. Why is it so important to recognize this? Because if we deny or ignore this reality, or try to control our situation and make it neat and perfect, we will only end up frustrating ourselves and making the situation worse. Families need to embrace the mess knowing that they are exactly where God wants them to be.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the messy family podcast.
0:06.8	Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family.
0:10.8	Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan.
0:14.4	And Alicia Hornin.
0:15.8	They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts.
0:18.6	Because family life is really messy.
0:24.9	Thank you. but they're not excellent because family life is really messy. Hello, messy families.
0:26.8	It is wonderful to be with you again.
0:30.3	I really do wish we should get some more pictures of our listeners so I can actually
0:34.2	look at them as well as you to know who we're talking to.
0:37.0	Kind of like a Zoom call.
0:37.8	Yeah, like we'll put them up on our computer screen so we get to see you.
0:41.0	Yeah.
0:41.1	So when we prayed before we started, Mike was like, help us just a picture all of the people
0:45.7	that we're talking to.
0:47.2	And I don't know.
0:47.5	I kind of find it easy to do that.
0:48.8	I picture you all, you know, like making, making dinner in your kitchen and your car,
0:55.2	shuttling kids now that...
0:56.5	They're making dinner in their cars?
0:57.8	Oh, my goodness.
0:59.7	I got a really bad night's sleep last night.
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