A Rough Draft Life

How do you find a way to give your thoughts and emotions a little rest? In these stressful, noisy times, how do you find little moments to escape? We discuss the power of books, drives, walks, and mental jaunts to our happy place (Kristi apparently doesn't have one). 

Welcome guest Teresa Tysinger as we discuss the power of escaping.

Lindsey and Kristi wanted to share all the wonderful things they've been loving for the past few months. Books. Music. Food. Gadgets. Podcasts. Get a rundown of our current fave things and hear a two big new announcements.

Lindsey and Kristi have spent the past ten weeks looking at the Fruits of the Spirit, seeing how interdependent they are, and facing the struggles they have living them out in their own lives. 

In this episode they recap what they learned, discuss what a litmus test is, and say the word "exactly" a lot. 

There may even be t-shirts.

In many ways goodness is the outward manifestation of all the other fruits working inside your heart. But how do we help it along? How do we recognize it? 

Let's talk about the last of our fruits of the Spirit, goodness.

We often think gentleness means being meek and mild. Kristi and Lindsey discuss why that's far from true as we look at past uses of the word and a different way of executing gentleness.

Rachel McMillan joins Lindsey and Kristi to discuss how our definitions of peace have changed during the pandemic, how we're learning to find it, and how Rachel's travel book that didn't do well and her WWII novel that's doing amazing have given her a new understanding of finding peace in knowing herself and God.

Faithfulness. It's something profoundly connected to God but much more difficult to see manifested in the fallible humans around us. How can we find faithfulness when it feels like there's none to be had? How do we ensure that we ourselves are working towards faithfulness? 

How long will Kristi let Lindsey ramble? 

All these answers and more in this week's episode.

Patience. We often think of it as the ability to wait but what if we considered it something active that we could do while we wait? Kristi and Lindsey discuss where they are finding patience difficult, where they are using impatience to their advantage, and Christmas. 

 

Yes. Christmas in September because it's 2020 so why not? 

 

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Kristi and Lindsey discuss the all important love with guest Toni Shiloh. Riveting moments include Toni's method of declaring love to Joe Schmoe, Kristi's ability to make up stories about total strangers, and Lindsey's obsession with Wal-mart parking spaces. 

 

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What is kindness? What do we need to be kind? Does being kind include how we treat ourselves? Is the Golden Rule found in the Bible? 

All of these important questions and more are addressed in this week's episode.