MFP 348: Field of Dreams for Families
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Summary
Every family inherits a legacy, both the blessings and the struggles, yet God calls us to build something new with Him. In this episode, Mike and Alicia reflect on the importance of having a dream for your family that goes beyond survival mode and day-to-day busyness. Drawing inspiration from the film Field of Dreams, they explore how couples can discern God's vision for their home, create a legacy of love, and take bold, countercultural steps together. Whether you're just starting out or sending kids off to college, this conversation will encourage you to pray, dream, and act with faith that "if you build it, HE will come."
Key Takeaways
Legacy Matters: We inherit patterns from our families of origin, but we can choose what to keep, redeem, or leave behind.
Dream Beyond Today: God calls us to think not just about survival, but about a vision that shapes generations.
Unity in Marriage: A shared dream unites spouses, strengthens families, and becomes a witness to others.
God Provides the Tools: He uses the gifts, circumstances, and desires already present in your life to shape His vision for your family.
Practical Step: Pray together, journal your inspirations, and start with simple habits that align with your family's God-given dream.
Couple Discussion Questions
What legacies from your families of origin do you want to keep—and which ones do you want to leave behind? If you looked five or ten years into the future, what would you want your children (or future children) to say about your family? Where do you see God already giving you the "building blocks" for His dream for your family? What small, concrete step can we take this week to begin living into that dream together?
For more information on this and other topics visit: https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Family, all in this together. |
| 0:07.6 | Family, we're taking a chance. |
| 0:10.4 | Family, like birds of a feather. |
| 0:13.0 | Family, we got my shoes and dance. |
| 0:15.5 | Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:17.3 | We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a |
| 0:22.2 | mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation. |
| 0:31.9 | Thanks for joining us on the podcast today. We are thrilled to be with you. We're glad you tuned in. Hope you all had a nice labor day because we skipped that week. Yeah, we were no laboring. Yes. We were doing stuff. Actually, we were laboring at our house. That's what labor day is. If people are like, what is Labor Day? Labor Day is the day that you labor in your own home. I don't know if it is officially, but that's what it is for us. And that's what that guy said too. Oh, yeah. The VP of the bank was like, yeah, I was cutting down trees. I was doing different things. Mike was making a stone path. We were creating wall. We were building walls. And I just can't wait to work with more stone. And that was my only frustration in the little project that I was working on is that I thought it would be so much easier because I'm Irish and my heritage and therefore I want to rebuild my grandfather's cottage. So this is just come so naturally. It's like I thought I was I was born among stone. No, but we have a good start. We have a good start. It's a good beginning. Yes. It's a good beginning. Anyway, we'll have to put up pictures on Instagram or something when we have. No, we have like our completed thing. We're doing these paths outside, you know. Yeah, but you should have your garden when it's in full bloom. That's the, that's the better picture. Well, it looks pretty nice now, but whatever. |
| 1:45.0 | Whatever. |
| 1:46.0 | Sorry. No. There's nothing to do with the podcast, guys. This is just, this is just our life. But we, we have, I think, but you know what it is like to make a segue here. Segway, segue, segue, is we have a dream. We have a dream for our front garden and it is a lot of hard work and we're building it. |
| 2:03.8 | But you know what? is we have a dream. We have a dream for our front garden and it is a lot of hard work and we're building it. |
| 2:03.8 | But you know what? |
| 2:04.8 | If we didn't have a dream, nothing would happen. |
| 2:07.3 | And it would just be gross clay that was there when we first moved in. |
| 2:11.7 | True story. |
| 2:12.3 | But you know, but we had this dream and we were building it little by little with all the hard work and failures and everything |
| 2:17.6 | we're doing it. And that's what you guys need to do in your homes. Right? There you go. There you go. |
| 2:22.4 | All right. All right. So before we jump in today's topic then, we have a couple of great things |
| 2:28.4 | coming up. I'll least I can think of one. And there's probably a second one too. |
| 2:34.7 | Well, |
| 2:34.8 | we've got a couple of events. |
| 2:35.7 | If you, if you want to go to messy family project.org, there's some events that we're speaking at this fall. We're going to be out in, we're going to be up in Michigan. Okay. We're going to be in Michigan. We're going to be in Cincinnati, Ohio. Yep. And we're going to be out in Montana in November. |
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