Un-hurry your heart and life with Jennifer Dukes Lee
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
I don’t know about you, but it feels like now that school is back in session I can finally exhale and breathe a little bit knowing there’s going to be more routine in my days.
Maybe it was getting one ready for college, or mentally preparing for high school with my middle son, or the beginning of kindergarten with my youngest—but life has felt like a lot the last few months.
If you’re feeling this same way, today’s show with Jennifer Dukes Lee is for you. Jennifer shares with us a time when she was at a breaking point in her own life and realized the need to “un-hurry” her heart. She gave herself permission to slow down and wait for the better things that come only with slow growth and deeper connection with the Lord.
I love the practical advice she shares from her new book Growing Slow and how we can: stop living in hurriedness and instead rest in Jesus, trust the winter seasons in life to God even when we don’t see his hand moving, find rest knowing that the small, slow things we do in parenting often produce big fruit in our kids’ lives.
I’ll leave you with my favorite parenting quote from Jennifer: “In my most insecure moments as a mom, the only thing that ever gave me hope and guidance was the gospel.”
Amen and amen!
Don’t miss this much-needed word for all of us taking a deep breath at the beginning of a new school year!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:02.0 | This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.0 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching |
| 0:21.0 | us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk the parenting |
| 0:26.5 | road alone. Hey guys, welcome to Part of the Mess. I'm glad you're with us today. We have a great |
| 0:34.8 | show. Before we get there, I just need to share a little personal note with you. Take a breath, have a moment of silence for the fact that my husband |
| 0:42.9 | and I just took our youngest to kindergarten. What in the world? And I want you to know that when |
| 0:47.6 | we took him into the local elementary down the street, that everyone around us probably thought |
| 0:52.1 | we were the grandparents. I understand, no judgment. We |
| 0:54.8 | probably look like the grandparents, but we are not. But I have not taken a child to kindergarten in a long |
| 1:00.0 | time, and I don't know if you've done this recently or not, but remember how you do it all perfect |
| 1:04.9 | that first time, and you have them like in their precious little outfit. Like I have them in a little |
| 1:09.9 | colored shirt and khaki shorts, and he has brand new little school shoes and his backpack from Target. I can't even stand it. He had it on. It's twice his size and there's absolutely nothing in it but his lunch. And then his lunch I made his lunch. And no, I didn't write him a note because he can't read because he's my third child. And of course, I haven't taught him to read. |
| 1:28.4 | He barely knows his letters, okay? |
| 1:30.2 | So there's that. |
| 1:31.4 | But anyway, we marched him in the school and he was sweet and cute. |
| 1:34.2 | And so I have this like crying disorder when I separate with my kids. |
| 1:37.3 | I don't know why because I'm not a crier in general. |
| 1:40.3 | But for each child, I've taken to kindergarten kindergarten like it's a train wreck in fact with my middle son brett |
| 1:45.3 | the sweet little kindergarten teacher had suggested it might be better if I wait outside while my |
| 1:50.2 | husband gets them situated because I was crying that hard it's humiliating and embarrassing and I cannot control it |
| 1:55.8 | and yes I did tear up with this one in fact several of our friends went with us and sat out in the |
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