Praying for our kids: Interruptibility
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It’s borderline comical when you stop and think about all the people in the Bible who were simply going about their business only to have God completely “interrupt” their plans and completely change their course.
I think of Noah stopping life to build an ark, or Abraham leaving it all to go to a foriegn country, or even Mary switching her wedding plans to baby preparations.
Only God can take our ordinary days and make them extraordinary for his purposes—if we’re willing. It takes some real intentionality to hold our plans loosely and allow the Lord to interrupt what we have planned in order to accomplish what he has uniquely designed. And the same goes for our kids.
This week we’re praying that our kids live interruptible lives in which they (1) live with enough margin to have time for the things God has for them, (2) learn to hear God’s voice in the still small moments, and (3) live with a willingness to go wherever he leads.
Oh, and I have my own story of interruptibility that I share in today’s podcast—I hope it encourages you as we pray interruptibility over our kids this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey guys, it's Cynthia. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm glad that you are with us today as we are praying for our kids and we are praying that they live |
| 0:21.1 | with interruptability. And so I'm guessing you probably have not prayed that before for your kids. |
| 0:26.4 | I had not until recently, but it's something that really has marked my life. And the whole idea |
| 0:31.7 | and the concept is that we want to raise kids who can live a life that can be interrupted. |
| 0:37.2 | That the Lord can interrupt them for whatever |
| 0:38.6 | his greatest purposes are in their lives. And so I'm going to start by just kind of sharing |
| 0:43.0 | what this has looked like in my life and why this concept has been so pivotal. And as you |
| 0:48.1 | probably know, if you've listened to this podcast for very long, I went to law school after |
| 0:51.9 | undergraduate and that's where I met my husband. And I practiced law |
| 0:54.8 | in a law firm downtown for many years. And as we started having kids and I was up for partner, |
| 1:00.3 | I decided at that time I was going to step back and try to be more available for our kids and to just do |
| 1:07.4 | part-time work. And then I cut back even more to more of a consulting role. |
| 1:11.8 | And anyway, I was at one point with a law firm in downtown Dallas. |
| 1:15.5 | I remember being like on the 30 or 40th floor in an office looking out over Dallas, |
| 1:19.7 | and I was working on a project for them and sitting there that day. |
| 1:23.1 | And I don't really know what happened that day, but I just kept feeling this restless stirring |
| 1:28.5 | as I was going through all these documents. |
| 1:30.7 | It was a very document intensive case. |
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