Welcome back to another episode friends!  We are continuing our conversation about our featured book "Building a Resilient Life" by Rebekah Lyons.  We sure do appreciate Rebekah’s transparent and authentic way she writes. It feels like we are sitting down with a cup of coffee and chatting about the deep things of life as we read this book.  So glad we can share our lives and the challenges life brings our way while inviting and including Jesus into every part of life even the messy parts. 

Thanks for joining us today as we discover ways Jesus is WITH US on our journeys right now in the messy middle of the lesson in the hard part where some days we just want to quit, we can choose to build a more resilient life.   

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Hello!  So glad you are here to join us in our continued conversation and discussion of Rebekah Lyons’ book “Building a Resilient Life.”  This episode is full of different Bible verses that keep coming to our minds as we both share about what we are learning in this season.  We are happy that God uses so many situations and experiences to speak, whether it's what book we are reading, a conversation with a friend, songs we hear.  

This episode is an honest conversation with each other about what God has been teaching us about community and confession so we can hear His truth.  Through friendship and tears we again hear God speaking into our lives in real time.  Thanks for joining us in our journey.  We hope you are encouraged by what God is speaking to you personally today. Glad we can be a part of your journey.  

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Hello Friends!  Today Corrie and Stephan are sharing about what God is doing in their lives.  They share what they have been learning from God and what He is speaking over them and into their true identity.  The featured book they are reading right now is by Jamie Winship, Living Fearless exchanging the lies of the world for the liberating truth of God.  Stephan and Corrie get vulnerable and share from their hearts, hoping that you too will know the truth about what name God calls you by and how that affects your everyday walk with Him. 

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Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today is the start of our new featured book.  “Building a Resilient Life - how adversity awakens strength, hope and meaning”  Written by Rebekah Lyons

In today’s episode we chat about different seasons of adversity in our life that made us stronger even though the situations were challenging.  We also share about others in our lives that are examples of resilient friends that inspire us to keep going.  

We all face different seasons of adversity; some can include self-doubt, physical injuries/illness, rejection, poverty, loss of a loved one and struggling to succeed in a chosen career.  

We hope today’s episode helps you walk through the challenges you might be facing right now.  Our heart was very encouraged by Psalm 30 and verse 2 stood out especially to Corrie  “Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.”

Hello Friends!  We are wrapping up our featured book, Find Your People, By Jennie Allen, with this question she asks the readers “What if God wants to shake up our perceptions and expectations of what community and family should look like?  

We share our stories of when we were feeling at the end of our strength quickly approaching burnout and the desire to quit and leave was intense and felt like an easier choice.  But we both chose to have our perception of what it means to be in community help us to listen to Jesus’ heart to live in community and to stay.  Ephesians chapter 4 encourages that we will be built up in love when we stay connected to our people.  Join us today to fight to stay in a relationship to choose to stay and grow and change. 

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Hello Friends!  We are in Chapter 8, Deep -Illustration: shovel Goal: Shared purpose, Barrier: Shallow/small talk.

Our lives can become fractured and compartmentalized when we only see people in single spheres of our lives. This can lead us to loneliness and isolation. The depth of relationship develops when people see all the parts of our lives: the good and the bad. Friends with shared purpose experience greater depth and meaning together. 

Find things in your life that need to be done and invite someone to do them with you!

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Hello Friends!  We are now talking about Chapter 7 of Find Your People, By Jennie Allen, Protected, with the illustration of an anvil.  Goal: Accountability and the Barrier: Pride 

Who is keeping you accountable? We all need friends to keep us accountable but many of us are lacking the deep friendships that function in this way. We all crave this type of relationship but live in a culture striving for independence and minding your own business. Join us as we dive in to talk about Find Your People.

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Hello Friends!  We are in Chapter 6, Safe today with the illustration of 

OPEN DOORS Goal: transparency Barrier: Pain/shame

This was a challenging chapter to read and to record,  putting ourselves out there to practice being vulnerable about past friendship hurts and the fear of trying again and again.  We take down some walls brick by brick to reveal our struggles and pain of being a friend and being truly known and loved. This chapter helps better equip us to find the balance of matching another person's level of transparency in a friendship.  This can feel tricky sometimes, but with Jesus’ help we can learn and grow and develop deep and meaningful realtionships.  

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Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! 

Do you feel awkward at making friends?  You are in good company.  Today’s episode we shared how our friendship felt quite awkward at the beginning, but we kept pursuing each other and built a beautiful friendship. There is hope on the other side of awkward beginnings.   

Jennie Allen encourages us in chapter 5 of her book Find Your People, 

Close FIRE Goal: proximity Barrier: Business 

1) Notice who is already right in front of you.   Who are the people you see at church, in your neighborhood, at work, school… who is around us in our everyday life. 

2) Put yourself out there and let’s be intentional about who we would like to get to know more.  Who could we initiate a coffee date, a walk, or a text message?  We will never have friends unless you are willing to consistently initiate.  This is not a small challenge, and as we discuss  today it feels exhausting to feel like the only one who is initiating connection. 

3)Start Great conversations, we can learn to ask more intentional questions that move beyond the daily to do’s and schedules.  We can get a little deeper with questions about how we feel about this or that? 

Thanks for joining us today!

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Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Welcome back to our conversation of our featured book “ “Find Your People.” 

Chapter 4, Find your People, is our topic of discussion. The necessary ingredients to build healthy friendships are A) availability- say yes friend, B) Humility- being able to say the hard things, and C) transparency- not hiding being open and honest.  Our village of friends is full of people who need us and who we need in our life.  Relationships will not be perfect, we will let others down and others will let us down. God can hold our expectations!      

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Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.