You’re Not That Special

Today we’re revisiting an older episode entitled, “Family Friendships.” This conversation fits snuggly with all our conversation over the last couple weeks about adult children and parents and how they relate. We hope this will encourage you, as it has us!

Something we don’t think about: The majority of our relationships with our children will be while they’re adults. How does that inform our parenting in the formative years? How does that change the adult child’s response to their parents? How can a parent love their adult child well? Listen in.

True love is love that, when tested, keeps loving. This relationship certainly presents that opportunity. How can a parent love their adult child well? How can an adult child love their parents well? Listen in.

You’d still take a bullet for your child, but they’re an adult. How do you respect them as an individual, while also sharing the valuable instruction you’ve garnered over the years? What does prayer look like on both sides of the adult child/parent relationship? How do we use this intimate relationship to best serve the other? For that matter, why do we even need to? Listen in.

We’re starting at the beginning. Humans, sin, and the institution of the family seemed appropriate for this first conversation about the delicate relationship between adult children and their parents. The Lord thought the family was worth saving. We do, too. Listen in.

Today we’re answering two questions that came in: 1. First time mom tips 2. How to get through long, hard days with littles. Em can empathize, Kim can remember. Listen in.

Today we’re discussing a quote from St. Francis De Sales, the temptation to define our lives by circumstances, and fail-proof ways to discover abundance in our weakness. God is a Father and He truly delights to give us our best. Listen in.

Welcome to out first Q&A episode where we answer questions directly from you! This is so exciting, as hearing directly from you helps us understand our audience better, and also pursue conversation avenues we might not have otherwise thought of. This conversation was fun, we hope it blesses you!

Questions discussed in this episode:

How do you balance future dreams with contentment and treasuring the present?

How to tackle/adjust marriage life with a new baby in the picture?

How to get around fear of taking kids in public?

As we enter part three of our marriage series, we’ve barely scratched the surface. We’re sharing some of the places that have recently challenged us in our own marriages. It’s going to be a hot one! Are we turning amoral issues moral? Maybe our conflicts aren’t always court room moments, but are opportunities to overlook an offense. “Taking offense” is a choice and it’s not always (usually) worth it. Listen in. Quote : “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory Appaloosa Festival: https://appaloosafestival.com/ticket-info

Are we doing the enemy’s work for him? In marriage we have a choice, always. Join us as we explore our agency, our ability for extreme action, and the places we get so easily confused in thinking we’re doing our spouse’s “best.” Marriage reveals the hidden ugliness in all of us, but what if this vantage point was designed on purpose for the spousal relationship? Listen in. Andrew Peterson- https://genius.com/Andrew-peterson-hold-up-my-arms-lyrics