The Middle Matters with Lisa-Jo Baker
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ever felt like you’re stuck in a rut of boring, ordinary, or just routine days?
Lisa-Jo Baker is our guest today on Pardon the Mess, and she’s got a word for you!
Many of us are smack-dab in the center of (brace yourself) midlife and need some encouragement that the daily, not-so-picture-perfect moments in this middle portion of life really do all add up to the truly extraordinary life the Lord has blessed us with.
Lisa-Jo reminds us that we can be free from living up to everyone’s expectations for what a meaningful life should look like and embrace the life we are living right here and right now. She brings us practical truth for our marriages, parenting, body image issues, failures, and all the other places as we face these middle days.
Lisa-Jo is practical, funny, realistic, warm, and loves Jesus. I’m not sure what else we could possibly ask for! You’re going to get a good laugh and possibly a little bit of free therapy hearing her talk about her muffin-top picture after a school play and crying in her minivan when her son made the honor roll.
For those of us spending our days in the “middle,” this one is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | We're so glad that you've tuned in to pardon the mess. |
| 0:07.4 | We're parents just like you, doing our best to raise kids who will love and follow Christ. |
| 0:12.7 | We hope you will join us and our guests each week for honest conversations about the good, |
| 0:17.4 | bad, and ugly of raising kids. |
| 0:19.6 | There's no perfect parents, just a perfect God |
| 0:21.9 | who stands ready to pardon our mess and guide us on the most challenging yet rewarding journey, |
| 0:27.3 | parenting. Hey guys, this is Cynthia Yanov, host to Pardon the Mess, and I'm so glad you're |
| 0:32.3 | with us today. I'm going to start off once again, and if you listen to our podcast a lot, |
| 0:36.5 | you may think like, lady, we hear you, you've talked about it. But for those of you that may have missed it, I still think it's important enough that I remind you that I would love for you to order a prayer journal. We are praying this year through the year for our kids together. And so we have a prayer journal. You can find it on Christian Parenting.org.org and just make a quick donation of whatever |
| 0:54.8 | meets your budget and if it doesn't meet your budget all then email us directly and we will get |
| 0:59.2 | you one anyway but we just are that compelled to remind everyone that together we are going |
| 1:05.0 | to pray for our kids this year and we're going to podcast about it some we're going to text about it |
| 1:09.4 | it's going to be really, |
| 1:15.3 | hopefully, a life-changing time for our kids and for ourselves. And so we ran out of the books, |
| 1:18.5 | but we have them back in stock. We ordered more. And thank you to all of you all of you have ordered a copy for yourself and your small groups and your preschools and all the different |
| 1:22.9 | places. And we're so grateful. But I just want to remind remind you it's not too late. So jump on Christian Parenting.org and grab a copy of our prayer journal, and there will be more coming about that throughout the year. |
| 1:32.6 | All right, today we have with us, Lisa Joe Baker. |
| 1:35.5 | And Lisa Joe Baker has written a book called The Middle Matters. |
| 1:38.9 | And this book just has resonated with me because she talks all about how the middle of our lives sometimes has |
| 1:45.7 | expectation. We thought it was going to look some certain way or things would be something that |
| 1:50.4 | maybe they're not. And she just talks about how there's so much beauty in the middle of our lives |
| 1:54.2 | and how we need to stop and slow down and just enjoy it and appreciate it for what it is and |
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