MP 025: Creating Order in a Messy World
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
"Half of the time I feel like I'm running an insane asylum… the other half of the time I feel like I belong in one!"
There are so many needs pressing on parents, especially moms, all day, every day. How can we prioritize our time and energy to create an orderly life for ourselves and our family? In the book A Mother's Rule of Life, Holly Pierlot describes the Six Priorities of Life that can help us create a routine in our day and make decisions that will help us use our time wisely and effectively. Despite what your children think, mothers can't do everything! Moms (and dads!) can create a balanced life by giving priority first to Prayer, then to Person, Partner, Parent, Provider, and Periphery (everything else!). If you enjoy this podcast, contact us about having Alicia come to speak to your parish or group to do a full presentation with more information on this topic.
Show Notes:
- A Mother's Rule of Life book by Holly Pierlot
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:09.7 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:11.0 | And this is a podcast trying to offer some of the insights from our experiences, our successes and failures. |
| 0:18.5 | Our disclaimers that we're not experts, but we've been married |
| 0:22.0 | for 21 years, have 10 children, and we've learned a thing or two. |
| 0:25.4 | I just want to share with you as an older brother or sister some of the things that we've |
| 0:28.9 | learned. |
| 0:29.4 | That's right. |
| 0:29.9 | So anyway, we have an interesting topic here today on kind of prioritizing or organizing |
| 0:35.5 | and ordering your life. |
| 0:37.4 | But before that, why don't we say a prayer. |
| 0:40.8 | Okay, go ahead. |
| 0:41.8 | Name the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:44.1 | Amen. |
| 0:45.7 | Lord God, you are a God who loves order. |
| 0:49.2 | You're a God who has established us in this universe, in this cosmos. |
| 0:54.7 | And you've given us a place. |
| 0:56.9 | And Lord, I ask for you right now to bless and bring peace to us and to all those listening. |
| 1:03.8 | Lord, in their homes, and their marriages and their family life, that peace might reign in this world through our families. |
| 1:11.2 | We ask all of this in your name. Amen. |
| 1:14.6 | Amen. |
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