Preparing for Advent with Ruth Chou Simons
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Don’t anyone panic, we’re not skipping Thanksgiving!
But we are chatting with Ruth Chou Simons about advent and why the posture of our hearts as we enter the holiday season matters. Ruth is hilariously practical and talks about her scrapbooking skills (or lack thereof) and her propensity to lose sight of what matters this time of year… if her perfectionist ways take over.
Ruth reminds us that there’s an opportunity to experience Jesus even during a time of year packed with family, parties, and preparations.
She also has the most BEAUTIFUL advent book available now—a 25 day journey leading up to Christmas. I’m going to be using this book all of Advent and would love for you to join me.
Today’s a fun conversation about holidays, family, and maintaining a posture that invites Jesus to be near in the middle of it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | This is Cynthia Yannoff, and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.1 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk |
| 0:26.1 | the parenting road alone. Hey guys, welcome to Part of the Mess. I'm glad you're with us today. |
| 0:34.7 | It is the week before Thanksgiving and I'm slightly giddy. |
| 0:38.1 | I love Thanksgiving. Makes me so happy. I love the smells. I love the food. I love the people. |
| 0:43.1 | My mom makes the best cornbread dressing. Do you call it dressing or stuffing? That would be a question of |
| 0:48.7 | the day. She makes the best cornbread dressing and all of the food is really so good I could do without the pumpkin pie I |
| 0:55.9 | really could but count me in on the pecan pie and one more thing about my mom's stuffing one year |
| 1:00.9 | she was trying to get all creative and she put mandarin oranges in it it was an all-out boycott |
| 1:06.3 | we're like who puts mandarin oranges and by the way if that's your family recipe and y'all |
| 1:09.9 | put mandarin oranges and that's on me I I do apologize. But that does not go in Dorothy's recipe |
| 1:14.8 | and we did not appreciate it. Anyway, I'm excited about next week. I'm excited about Thanksgiving, |
| 1:19.9 | especially when you have college kids. They come home. It's all the things. I'm also thankful |
| 1:24.2 | just opportunities to slow down and stop and thank the Lord for what he does for |
| 1:28.3 | us and the good times the hard times everything in between and you know what really excites me |
| 1:32.6 | out Thanksgiving the day after Thanksgiving I mean rip out that tree get the presents rolling |
| 1:39.0 | all the things for Christmas I get giddy about that as you know I'm one of those people |
| 1:42.8 | love it love it all I'm already listening people. Love it, love it all. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm already listening to the music, but I love it all. And so Ruth Cho-Simmons with us today, and we are talking about Advent. And I don't know about you, but I didn't spend a lot of time |
| 1:53.5 | growing up talking about Advent. And I love that she's written a book. It's called Emmanuel. And it's a 25 day journey into Christmas. And today we're just |
| 2:01.6 | talking out how important it is that we enter the season with a heart that's postured right |
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