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Out of the Ordinary

Welcome to Out of the Ordinary, the show that helps you grow a daily life that matters. In a world that loves bigger, better, fast, and famous, longtime friends and authors, Christie and Lisa-Jo, are here to remind you that the very best stories actually grow out of the soil of ordinary life.

Further podcasts by Lisa-Jo Baker & Christie Purifoy

Podcast on the topic Christentum

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Out of the Ordinary
1: Everything Big Starts Small from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.118272

This is the story of a packet of grass seeds and a pitcher of water. What started out as the smallest, most unexpected parts of our ordinary lives have became the very best bits we couldn't ...

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2: The Antidote to Dissatisfaction from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.112040

This is the story of eating a 3 course dinner soaking wet in the middle of a rainstorm in Zimbabwe. And the story of yellow leaves falling in the middle of summer in Pennsylvania. And how we hav...

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3: The Good News About Broken Dreams from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.105734

This is a story about the search for a barn.

Today we dig into what it looks like and feels like to watch your dream break into little bits and pieces you can't make sense of. Chris...

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4: How Our Show Got Its Name from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.097290

 

This is the story about strawberry jam and Wednesday night parenting.

Because this is the story about how our podcast got it's name. Buried deep in the thick of...

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5: How to Know When You've Had Enough from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.090670

This is the story about being full.

Really it's the story about understanding the difference between being empty, being full and then being stuffed to feeling sick. And ...

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6. Here is Your New Business Card from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.083800

This is the story about a business card.

For years, Lisa-Jo and Christie defined their significance according to the business cards in their pockets. They knew just what ...

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7. Instead of Setting Goals, Try This from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.078142

This is the story about one thousand Easter eggs.

Really it's the story about listening for invitations rather than setting goals. It's the difference betwee...

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8. You Have Permission to Let That Go from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.072432

This is the story about taking apart a vegetable garden to make place for a parking lot.

Does that sound crazy? It looked crazy. It felt crazy. But this is the story...

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9. What If Hope Scares You Silly? from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.066125

 

This is the story about a house, a baby, and a hope disappointed. 

Lisa-Jo and Christie get real honest this week as they wonder out loud if hope really is a...

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10. When You Feel Invisible from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.060042

This is the story about an invisibility cloak.

Because it's only natural to feel unseen when the ordinary routines of ordinary life close in around us. No one is hand...

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11. When Life Feels Like a Series of Interruptions from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.054437

These are the stories of a sick child and the birth of a book.

"How do you do it all?" we're often asked. The short answer? We don't. The longer answer? W...

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12. Ordinary Life at Christmastime from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.049091

This is the story of a how to be a Keeper of Seasons.

We share our favorite do's and don'ts around the Advent and Christmas season. For example, DO give yourself ...

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13. How to keep doing your Ordinary Work without Feeling Discouraged during the Holiday Season from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.043572

This is the story of how to keep doing your ordinary work without feeling discouraged during the Christmas season.

The wonder of the holidays can be diluted when we have ...

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14. Does God Still Give Good Gifts at Christmastime? from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.038110

This is the story of a Christmas baby.

This season is all about gifts. We give gifts to one another, and we remember the very good gift of God's son, given to a weary...

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15. An Alternative to New Year's Resolutions from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.032293

This is the story about promises buried like Spring.

We recorded this episode on the 3rd floor of Maplehurst surrounded by the wrapping paper dregs of Christmas. And neit...

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16. When Your Worst Fear Comes True from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.026656

This is the story of your worst fear come true.

 This is a conversation about trusting God with our kids, and others we love, this new year.

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17. When the Answer is"No" from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.021225

This is the story of a Jasmine-scented South African summer night.

This is a story about disappointment in God, and this is a conversation about the dreams that do NOT co...

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18. Why We Were Wrong About Marie Kondo from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.015709

This is the story of the secret shame we all carry about our houses. And the one thing that can free you from it.

This is a story about Christie's house Maplehu...

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19. You Called Me WHAT Now? from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.010370

This is the story of the labels people pin to us - to our bodies or our lives, or our families or our homes - and that we sometimes start to believe must be true. This is the story of ...

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20. Why It Might Be Time To Claim A New Name from 2023-12-14T03:40:51.004981

This is the story of a man who chose his own name.
And this is the story of a name handed down from mother to daughter to son.

 If Episode 19 was all about ...

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21. How Not To Fear Grief from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.998922

These are the stories of friends who showed up like beacons.

If Episode 20 was all about the foreign country of grief, these stories will give you the ...

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22. An Easy Way to Reset Your Day from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.993838

This is a collection of love stories about the old fashioned cuppa tea.

It's no secret that Lisa-Jo and Christie love a good cup of tea.  Hot, cold...

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23. All Our Nosy Listener Questions Answered! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.987543

This is a story about our nosy listeners whom we love!

So many of you have had so many questions for us over the past few months. Here are all your ans...

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24. A Gift For the Listeners We Love from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.980962

This is a story about placemaking around the table.

This is Chapter Ten of Placemaker in Christie's own voice (can you hear a hint of Texa...

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25. The Story Behind the Book (Only Available Right Here!) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.973994

This is a story about a book called Placemaker.

This is a joy-filled conversation between old friends about a brand-new book baby.

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26. The Gift I Never Wanted to Give My Kids from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.968493

This is a story about a gift I regret giving my children. 

If I could take it back I would. Maybe?

But maybe not.

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27. Friendship Hacks from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.963

This is a story about a friendship that's lasted 2 decades

It's all our insights into why it's lasted and how to find friends that love you...

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28. Surprised by New Life from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.957791

This is a story about the surprise of new life.

This is a story about calendar days of death transformed into yearly reminders of new life. Listen

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29. Our Easy Recipe For Hospitality from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.952702

This is a story about an epic Easter egg hunt.

This is a story about easy, life-giving hospitality.

This week on t...

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30. You're Allowed Everyday Extravagances from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.947669

This is a story about painting a dining room nearly charcoal black. And the hundreds of hours it took.

This is a story about how it turned a di...

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31. Our Favorite Neighbor from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.942448

This is a story about a man who moved into our neighborhood and it changed everything.

This week Lisa-Jo and Christie remember the cultures and friendships and travel...

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32. Surprised by Motherhood from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.937223

This is a story from Lisa-Jo's favorite book baby, Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected About Being a Mom.

With Mother's Day just aroun...

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33.These Are The Books That Made Us from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.931666

This is a story about a book Christie loved and Lisa-Jo did not.

Actually, here are stories about quite a few books! Because these are the childhood fa...

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34. My Worst Mother's Day from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.926290

This is the story of a new mom crushed by one sentence on her first Mother's Day. And how a decade later she got to re-write those words. 

This one...

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35. Why We Cancelled Our First Podcast Party from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.922170

This is the story of a party that never happened. And the reasons why we're grateful for that.

May 4th was supposed to be our first live podcast ev...

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37. You're Invited to the Black Barn! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.910309

This is an invitation. But before the invitation? A story, of course.

This is the story of grass seeds and weeds. This is a story abou...

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38. How to Leave a Critical Review from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.904140

This is the story of our first critic.

Once upon a time in a coffee shop in Chicago when Christie was a brand new English Literature professor a strang...

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39. Eat This! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.898386

This is the story about summer foods.

If you're like us then you also associate summer with certain foods. And therefore with certain memories. The...

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40. Christie Was Wrong (and Martha Stewart Was Right) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.893079

This is a story about Martha Stewart's magazine. And how Christie was disappointed by the gardening issue. Until this happened. 

Christie did not u...

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41. This One is for the Weary from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.887819

This is a story inspired by rest.

Sounds good, doesn't it? Unfortunately, rest is sometimes easier to talk about than it is to receive. But at the ...

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42. Why the End of Every Great Story is the Same from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.882642

This is a story about two astonishing names.

One name belongs to Christie's family and the other belongs to Lisa-Jo's, but both names tell incr...

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43. Surprise! A Gift For You from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.877614

This is a story about the middle.

We celebrate new beginnings, and we applaud satisfying endings, but too often we forget about the middle. Or, worse, ...

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44. Confessions of a Carb Loving Author from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.872765

This is a story about how books are born

Christie interviews Lisa-Jo today and takes us all behind the scenes of the writing of Lisa-Jo's new book,...

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45. Can we Trust God with our Kids? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.867630

This is the story about trusting God with our kids

I've heard Christie tell this story before. So have you.

As...

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46. Live from the Maplehurst Black Barn! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.862589

This is the story of a real life dream come true.

When we began this podcast almost one year ago, we never imagined bringing you an episode like this o...

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A FREE Tiny Library for YOU! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.857481

Season 2 of the Out of the Ordinary conversations kicks off on October 2!

How to win: In the meantime, if you share about the podcast coming back Octob...

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47. You Are Here from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.852181

Welcome to Season 2 of our Out of the Ordinary conversations. Where we remind ourselves that the very best stories grow out of the soil of ordinary life.

As Christie an...

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48. How to Watch TV from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.847046

This is Season 2 of the Out of the Ordinary podcast, where we believe that the very best stories grow out of the soil of ordinary life. 

This is a story about stories.
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49. In the Presence of Your Enemies from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.841522

This is the story about sitting down to do the thing God invited you to do, even though your worst fears are staring straight at you.

Why isn&#...

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50. The Great Thing About Not Having Enough from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.836446

This is a story about Not Enough.

Not having enough.
Not being enough.

Lisa-Jo and Christie speak honestly ab...

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51. When You're Tired of Making Dinner. Again. from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.831108

This is a story about being fed.

Lisa-Jo and Christie describe the lengths they'll go to fuel themselves for these podcast recording sessions. From...

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52. How to Heal Your Deepest Wounds from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.825780

This is a story about dark wells of deep water and the surprises that can come out of them.

This week we talk about how the places of our pain are some...

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53. Guardian Angels in Disguise from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.820729

This is the story of having a champion. Especially one who doesn't look, talk, act, or sound like a champion.

This is the story of surprise charact...

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54. The One Thing We Won't Do This Christmas from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.815546

This is the story of a terrible, no-good, but oh-so-hilarious Christmas card photo.

These are stories about the things we will NOT be doing this Christ...

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55. 2 Hard Holidays&A Holy Night (Part 1 of 3) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.810230

This is the story of a young woman's first Thanksgiving and a young child's Christmas wish.

These are stories about hard holidays, but they are...

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56. 2 Hard Holidays and A Holy Night (Part 2 of 3) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.804858

This is the story of a bag of broken Christmas gifts and an ironing board.

Here comes the second in our 3 part journey unpacking our hard Christmas sto...

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57. 2 Hard Holidays and A Holy Night (Part 3 of 3) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.799005

This is the story of 1 hospital conference room and 1,000 lanterns in the sky.

Here comes the final installment in our 3 part journey unpacking our har...

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58. A New Year's"No"(Part 1 of 2) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.793319

This is the story of a neglected garden and a disappearing act.

This is the first half of a two-part conversation on why we're beginning this new year by saying ...

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59. A New Year's"Yes!"(Part 2 of 2) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.787992

This is the story of what Christie found at the back of a very messy closet.

This is a story about the shadow side of every "Yes."

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60. 15 Words We Love from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.782401

This is a story about 15 words. And why we love them.

If you are an aficionado of the spoken word, you're in for a treat. Here comes a whole lot of...

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61. A Care Package for our Listeners from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.777399

This is a story about brown paper packages tied up with string.

We have created a virtual care package for our listeners. This is the behind the scenes...

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62. It's the Virtual Black Barn! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.770390

This is a story about a fountain, a house, and a dream. And it comes with an invitation to a virtual black barn. 

Because we're opening the...

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63. Naked Storytelling: Your Childhood Home from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.765462

This is a story about two cows and a little girl who peed in the front yard.

This is the beginning of a vulnerable series of stories as we work our way...

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64. When Your Limits Frustrate You from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.760022

This is a story about a checkerboard floor and running out of mashed potatoes.

It's also an honest look at how we make sense of the hard limits we ...

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65. Rebuilding Our Broken Homes from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.755088

This is a story about the burned down parts of our lives. On Ash Wednesday it feels appropriate. 

This is the third in a series of vulnerable stories a...

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66. The Benefits of an Unimportant Life from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.749447

This is a story about how to listen (instead of  worrying about how life hasn't lived up to the story we write in our heads.)

It's the first in...

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67. The Antidote to the Shame of Failure from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.744045

This is a story about failure. And the shame that comes with it. And what the antidote to that shame is.

Honestly, this was a conversation we were deep...

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68. Fear is the Virus We CAN Treat from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.738761

This is a story about being allergic to life.

This week Christie went in for allergy testing and discovered that she's allergic to her very favorit...

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69. Dolly Parton Was Right: Laughter Through Tears IS the Best Emotion! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.733362

This is a story about laughing our way through tears, toilet paper shortages, and the wild mashup of homebound kids and a global quarantine. 

Friends, ...

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70. Hope in the Time of Corona from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.728250

This is a story about ALL YOUR stories.

Listeners from all over the world sent in stories of hope and laughter and love in the time of Corona t...

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71. Holy Week and the Opposite of Fear from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.722504

This is a story about Holy Week in the time of social distancing, the courage we've seen in unexpected places, and what we have to learn from the saints of old and the everyday...

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72. Nothing Preaches Like a Feast from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.717225

This is a story about how everything that wasn't normal about this Easter can't detract from the feast that teaches like no other and the father that rescues like no other....

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73. The Home Series: Stories from the Dining Room from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.711642

This is a story about seeing our homes less like places where we’re trapped with frighteningly low supplies of toilet paper and more like places of refuge and welcome for ourselves...

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74. The Home Series: Stories from the Kitchen from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.705816

This is a story about two out of control kitchens. And the power of grace and sugar.

This is The Home Series. For the next few weeks we'll be telli...

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75. The Home Series: 7 Practical Ways to Rest at Home from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.700101

This is a story about how rest does NOT require a cabin in the woods or room service. 

Instead, it's a helpful guide to finding rest in the very mi...

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76. The Home Series: Stories from the Living Room from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.694342

This is a story about tunneling out of our quarantined homes through our sofas and into two memories from when the couches in our living rooms were just newborns. It's...

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77. The Home Series: Stories from the Bathroom! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.688782

This is a story about bathroom hospitality. What on EARTH?!?, you might say. Yup, as wild as it sounds. We've actually got those stories for you today. So get comfy, g...

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78. The Home Series: Stories from the Backyard from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.682690

This is a story about that room we sometimes forget -- the backyard. Whether it's fun with chainsaws, fires, bikes or weeding, this week we remind ourselves that the b...

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79. The Home Series: Stories from the Bedroom from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.677191

This is a story about the most intimate of rooms -- the bedroom. The place where we retreat, where we are fully known and where we find comfort. May you find rest and room...

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80. These are not our stories (but we're listening) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.671673

This is a story about listening.

On this podcast, two friends share their stories; one talks while the other listens. And it's deepened our...

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81. Summer Lovin' from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.666116

This is a love story about summer.

A celebration of all the stickiest, most delicious, uncomfortable, weird and wonderful ways that summer wraps itself around us ...

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82. Somebody Else's Shoes from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.660373

This is a story about how being willing to hear and share uncomfortable stories are how we learn and grow. It's like being willing to walk around in someone else's shoes --...

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83. Open House from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.654705

This is a story about turning social media's usual ways upside down.

Are you weary of online spaces where everyone shouts and no one listens?  Listen

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84. This Table is for You! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.648330

This is a story about choosing a table and a teacher.

For all who want the deepest, richest community experience, we offer an opportunity to sit with o...

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85. Christmas in July! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.641860

This is TWENTY of our favorite Christmas stories! Buckle up, here come a smorgasbord of our very favorite Christmas reads!

Last December we'd created a special bonu...

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86. Grace for Your Waist from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.635695

This is a story about your middle. And how to love it. 

Both the stage of life and your beautiful body. This week it's almost one year to the day s...

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87. Beating COVID Claustrophobia from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.630014

This is a story about struggling to breathe. In a pandemic, our houses and surrounded by trees.

Today's story is for anyone trying to catch their b...

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88. Parenting in a Pandemic from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.624511

This is a story about being homesick for how home used to be. About loving our people and still wishing NONE of them were in our house right now. And how to do all that on...

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89. What's Saving Our Lives These Days from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.618719

This is a story about a few very specific things that are making a very real difference in our days. When it seems like all hope is lost, turns out it never actually is

Join Lisa-Jo and C...

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90. Know Your Limits from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.613266

This is a story about a completely unexpected development in both Christie and Lisa-Jo's lives.

These uncertain days crave pockets of certainty. Here is one change that has proved cer...

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91. WHY You Feel So Tired from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.606945

This is a story about making sense of our universal exhaustion.

You're not alone if you feel mentally, physically and emotionally finished here at the end of summer a...

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92. 7 Basic Tools for Ordinary Living from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.600963

This is a story about how to make ordinary life a little bit easier.

Today we share some very basic and weirdly life changing tools that make ordinary ...

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93. Impractical Tools for Ordinary Living from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.594662

This is a story about how sometimes our wants NEED to trump our needs.

Following up from last week, today we share some very UNbasic and almost impractical tools that...

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94. 2020 You Need to Put Your Pants Back On! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.588464

This is a story about lowering our standards. So low it will be sure to make you feel better about your own these days!

Because this year September feels like the wor...

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95. Our Favorite Fall Things from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.581617

This is a story about why we channel our inner Julie Andrews at the beginning of each new season. These are the stories behind our favorite fall things. As it turns out, our s...

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96. The True Crime episode from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.574723

This is a story about our favorite true crime storyteller. Louise Penny has written 16 novels and each one understands the truth behind crime in a way very few CSI or True Cri...

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97. Lisa-Jo Gets Her Fix from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.567963

This is a story about something Lisa-Jo (and all of you?) has been missing and craving terribly during this quarantine. Today Christie gives her (and all our listeners) a fix! Listen

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98. Our Favorite Carbs from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.562780

This is a story about a God who offers Himself in the most ordinary, basic food we could ever imagine.

Always in the pantry---whether it's Wonderbr...

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99. But How Do You Find the Time for THAT? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.558391

This is a story about the difference between what is a pleasure and what is an essential. And how to tell the difference and why it matters?

This conversation started bec...

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100. 100 Conversations&The Meal We Could Not Make from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.553709

This is a story about how Christie surprised Lisa-Jo with the perfect gift. And a reminder about how everything big still always starts small.

Here's to celebrating t...

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101. Homesick for the Holidays from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.549417

This is a story about how to go home when you can't go home.

We know this year feels different in so many ways. Which means the holidays might look different and goin...

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102. What Home Smells Like from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.544829

This is a story about what home smells like.

We follow our noses home this week and what turns up is not what we expected. Not sweet, but smelly. More ...

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103. We Disagree. Now What? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.539904

This is a story about battlegrounds. States, friendships, families. We're all living through hard conversations these days. Is there a way to survive and maybe, even, thrive th...

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104. It Was a Good Surprise! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.534004

This is a story about good surprises.

Today we talk about what it looks like when the extraordinary breaks into the ordinary, like light through the dark, when it is tota...

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105. Advent Calendar Pt. 1: READ from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.527542

This is a story about your five senses. Each week in December we'll be counting down a new way to celebrate the season. Simple, ordinary, and totally do-able. We hope ...

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106. Advent Calendar Pt. 2: LISTEN from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.522505

This is a story about music that climbs inside your bones and makes its home inside you. We tell the stories behind our favorite Christmas songs, both songs we share are a bit h...

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107. Advent Calendar pt. 3: TASTE from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.517099

This is a story about what Christmas tastes like. Come and be introduced to pizza rice and mince pies and find out why these weird sounding foods taste like comfort, home and ea...

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108. Advent Calendar Pt. 4: GROW from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.511648

This is a story about an inside garden. If you want to bring some of the magic of a living, growing garden inside this December, this is the episode for you. It's easier tha...

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109. Advent Calendar Pt. 5: GATHER from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.506548

This is a story about remembering our favorite gatherings. We invite you to sit back, get comfy and linger with us around the table as we recall why gathering is a sacred art an...

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110. Our Favorite Winter Things from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.501376

This is a story about a few of our favorite winter things. This is the podcast where we don't start the new year talking about goals. Instead, we invite you to get cosy, get...

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111. Waiting (from a child's point of view) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.495941

This is a story told in the words of my nine-year-old daughter. A hard, sad story that surprised us both when tears snuck out in the middle of telling it. She and her brothers h...

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112. We Hear from the Husbands! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.490381

This is a story about supporting your partner as they pivot.

This week on the podcast, our husbands join the conversation! Peter and Jon takes us behind the scenes, shari...

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113. Christie's Virus Story from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.483923

This is a story about navigating the very thing you've been trying to avoid.

If you've ever made choices only to be discouraged when you ran into the hurdle you w...

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114. When She Has What You (Think) You Don't from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.476702

This is a story about lack vs abundance.

Sometimes the lives we see our friends leading feel like they amplify our lack. Lisa-Jo and Christie share an honest example from...

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115. How to Manage a Frantic Mind from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.470627

This is a story about how a productive life and a meaningful life are not necessarily the same thing.

In the slow days of February when we're all slogging through the...

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116. Why It's Not Time To Worry Yet from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.465604

This is a story about dust. About what matters and what doesn't and how it can make it hard to breathe.

At the start of Lent, may we invite you to go deep into a lost...

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117. The Grass IS Greener And Other Half Truths from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.460700

This is a story about how the thing we imagine will make life better just might actually do that. And, like all great stories, might have some plot holes.

Join us today a...

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118. How Storytellers Process Re-Entry from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.455758

This is a story about a mom sitting in her car staring into space in the school parking lot surprised by how badly she just needed to sit and cry for a moment.

As the wor...

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119. What Travel Teaches Us About Re-Entry from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.450865

This is a story about what being suspended with toddlers at 30,000 feet teaches you about reentry. And how road trips across states can surprise you into thinking about where you best be...

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120. A Pandemic Year in Review from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.445657

This is a story about crossing the line in the sand, the threshold we've all stepped over that now marks one full year of pandemic life.

This is the third and final i...

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121. REUNITED (and it feels so good!) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.440922

This is a story about finally being back in the same place one year later!

This podcast has always been rooted in a specific place, Christie's 100 year old farmhouse,...

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122. A few of our favorite SPRING things! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.435822

This is a story about a spring tradition.

With each new change of the seasons, it's become our tradition to record a new intro to celebrate what we love about that pa...

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123. Something New Is Coming! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.430842

This is a story about something new growing out of the podcast.

We're entering our third season of The Out of the Ordinary Podcast. Christie and Lisa-Jo have poured o...

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124. Can You Trust Us? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.425301

INTRODUCING: Out of the Ordinary BOOKS! Where we believe that the books we read help us better understand the lives we lead.

Every week we will share an out of the ordinary book and how i...

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125. Navigating through Hard Headlines from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.420305

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's L...

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126. Understanding the Choices We've Made from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.415037

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, by Alexander McCall Smith...

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127. Signs of an Untrustworthy Narrator from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.409434

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

All Fall Down by Ally Carter
Book 1 in the Embassy Row ...

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128. The Gospel According to Fairy Tales from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.403825

Today's Out of the Ordinary Books:
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, Karen Foxlee
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129. Narnia for Grownups from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.398456

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Perelandra (Voyage to Venus), CS Lewis
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130. Dealing with the Weeds and Emails of Life from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.393489

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Tasha Tudor's Garden by Tovah Martin

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131. The One with All the Laughter from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.388485

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

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132. Why Detective Novels Are Comforting from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.383378

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Cover Her Face: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery, P.D. James

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133. The One with The Creepy Twins from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.378120

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium, Elizabeth Peters &...

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134. Behind the Books: A Big Reveal! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.372915

This week is the first in a special series we'll be dipping into every now and again that we're calling "Behind the Books"-- a chance for us to hear from authors and learn more a...

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135. On Father Figures in Books and Life from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.367581

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl

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136. On Prayer&Praying from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.362240

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

The Book of Common Prayer

Bonus books mention...

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137. Too Small to Ignore from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.357562

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Too Small to Ignore, Wes Stafford

Key Convers...

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138. The Big House from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.352328

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home<...

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139. Author Encounters (Awkward&Awesome) from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.346770

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus ...

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140. What's Real?! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.341033

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

The Weight of Memory written and read by S...

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141. For the Tired and Burned Out from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.335565

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Growing Slow: Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Acci...

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142. What will wake us up? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.329772

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

Can You See Anything Now? written and read by Listen

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143. A Voice for the Marginalized through the Eyes of Luke from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.324220

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

God...

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144. Have you Felt Lonely or Left Out? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.318861

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

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145. You Don't Need a Passport to Change the World from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.313149

Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:

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147. Back to our Roots and into our Ordinary Days from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.297056

Key Conversation Points:

  • Season 4 is here!! We're switching things up! Thanks for your survey responses because they've been so eye-opening and life-giving....

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148. A Rescue from Your Daily Rut from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.291421

Key Conversation Points:

  • Who remembers the tag line for our new and improved podcast? Lisa-Jo is working on it. We've all been there. 
  • Join Lisa-Jo and...

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149. Why Your Grocery Run Matters from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.286240

Key Conversation Points:

  • What's your guess for Christie's new, life-giving rhythm that she didn't ask for but is receiving well?  
  • Christie'...

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150. You're Never Too Old for a Plot Twist from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.280899

Key Conversation Points:

  • Lisa-Jo learned new things about Christie, right along with the listeners today. Decades of friendship and there's still things to lear...

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151. When Life Feels Nothing Like the Movies from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.275684

Key Conversation Points:

  • Lisa-Jo's son passionately said, "Now listen, it's not as bad as you think." Mothers everywhere clutch their pearls at thes...

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152. Fresh Eyes from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.270554

Key Conversation Points:

  • What happens in South Africa at 11am and 4pm every day? Should Americans integrate this too?!
  • How did only three choices at the st...

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153. Graveyards and Twinkle Lights from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.265606

Key Conversation Points:

  • Faith and Halloween can be uncomfortable to talk about but Lisa-Jo and Christie talk through the tension of the American holiday with clari...

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154. Do Fences Make Good Neighbors? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.260470

Key Conversation Points:

  • Lisa-Jo and Christie said "middle finger" on the podcast. What is up with this story?!
  • Lisa-Jo shares about how we're ...

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155. Gift a Daily Life that Matters. Round 1 of 3: Family Style from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.255397

Key Conversation Points:

  • Do you plan ahead or are you a last minute shopper? Which one is Christie and Lisa-Jo? 
  • Lisa-Jo and Christie have someone to add t...

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156. Gift a Daily Life that Matters. Round 2 of 3: Home Style from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.249363

Key Conversation Points

  • What would be one theme of your house? Can you guess a theme for Lisa-Jo and Christie's home?
  • There's items in this podcast...

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157. Gift a Daily Life that Matters. Final Round: Treat YO SELF! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.242812

Key Conversation Points

  • Everyone wants to feel comfy this time of year and Lisa-Jo and Christie are the same! Grab something off this list just FOR YOU! You deserve...

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158. The Reflective Pause of Winter from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.236856

Out of the Ordinary Reflections:

  • This season is full of expectations but we aren't living the expectations we see on Hallmark.  We are living in real lives, nee...

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159 . Quiet Your Soul from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.231070

Out of the Ordinary Winter Reflections:

  • Guess what's under the barren branches and cold, hard dirt? There's bulbs underneath and they will bloom in time.  Listen
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160. Finding the Face of God in the Storm from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.225476

Out of the Ordinary Winter Reflections:

  • Where's Jesus on the days when it seems He has fallen asleep in the storm?  Jesus was asleep on the boat because he wasn...

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161. Hope in Winter from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.219890

Out of the Ordinary Winter Reflections:

  • "Making friends and family comfortable is an art." What do you want people to feel when they enter your home? It'...

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162. Take a Load Off from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.214036

Key Conversation Points:

  • This year we have permission to know what happens isn't on us.
  • Lying in bed in a hole is okay in this new year with the Lord. ...

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163. Encountering Goodness from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.207756

Key Conversation Points:

  • What does it mean to pursue goodness? Have we slighted it? 
  • Let's stay rooted in our deep and worthy ordinary virtues even tho...

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165. How To Make Your Life Make Sense from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.198276

Key Conversation Points:

  • It's possible to make sense of the weird parts of our stories. 
  • No part of your past is insignificant. 
  • God isn't...

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166. When You Feel Like You're Drowning from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.192217

Key Conversation Points:

  • The podcast starts with Lisa-Jo desperately needing answers about finding equilibrium when she's drowning in life and she gets her answ...

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167. Highs and Lows from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.187429

Key Conversation Points:

  • Let's take stock with some highs and lows, including dirty, dumb dogs, hypochondriacs, friends and tea.
  • There's "not a...

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168. Growth From Dissatisfaction from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.181306

Key Conversation Points:

  • Did you know about the sweet spot online where Lisa-Jo and Christie combine faith and art that's cultivated into a community? Join us o...

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169. Healing Isn't Comfortable, Do You Still Want It? from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.175358

Key Conversation Points:

  • Lisa-Jo and Christie are taking some assessments of their lives and wondering if they've made mistakes or are currently making them.  Listen
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170. Holding a Divine Anchor in the Middle of Bombs Falling from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.168987

Key Conversation Points:

  • How can we enlarge ourselves for someone else's story? 
  • What does it mean to embrace the ordinary smallness because therein li...

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171. Creativity in the Darkness from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.163565

Key Conversation Points:

  • When we are confronted with real world darkness, what do we do? 
  • We don't have to create art that will hang in a museum.  Lisa...

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172. Extraordinary Courage in our Ordinary Days from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.157187

Key Conversation Points:

  • The ordinary moments anchor us and connect us across neighborhoods, states, countries and oceans....even for Lisa-Jo's friend in Ukrain...

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173. When God Doesn't Show Up with a Life Preserver from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.150655

Key Conversation Points:

  • This is a golden nugget from our podcast vault of precious and timeless truths from Lisa Jo's daughter, Zoe, when she was nine. Listen ...

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174. Why Hope IS a Strategy from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.145139

Key Conversation Points:

  • The Bible says humans plan their course but God directs their paths.
  • We as a people believe in needing to be rescued, even though ...

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175. Hope is a (Suffering) Person from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.139645

Key Conversation Points:

  • Last week's episode is here if you’d like to listen to that first...

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176. Simple Holy Ways to Connect from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.134744

Key Conversation Points:

  • Is Easter the weirdest time to invite people to church?
  • Lisa-Jo and Christie chat about creating low barrier entry points in our c...

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177. Special Grace for Special Needs from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.129210

Key Conversation Points:

  • There are over 15% of children in the United States with special needs. These precious children are in our schools, neighborhoods, families...

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178. Being Willing to be Submerged for Awhile from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.123101

Key Conversation Points:

  • When you're not walking on water but drowning underneath it. 
  • Christie wants to still enjoy life and have quiet moments in the...

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179. Not Your Typical Mom Convo from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.116835

Key Conversation Points:

  • We can bring any pain from our mothers to God.  God is father and mother to us. 
  • Knowing our mothers outside of their relationship...

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180. A Day in the Life-MORNING EDITION from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.111095

Key Conversation Points:

  • Growing a daily life that matters isn't one size fits all.  It just means to pay attention to what it means for you! 
  • Unpack y...

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181. A Day In the Life: NOON EDITION from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.104555

Key Conversation Points:

  • Do you agree with medieval monks and think the middle of the day has a noon day demon waiting for us? 
  • Kathleen Norris writes in h...

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182. A Day In the Life: NIGHT EDITION from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.097618

Key Conversation Points:

  • Do you have a nighttime person that comes out to play and forgets all responsibility that awaits in the morning? 
  • The ordinary unp...

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183. Seven Party Personalities: #1-The Artist from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.091214

Key Conversation Points:

  • Summer is a time to gather with your people.  It's time for parties!
  • The seven party personalities for seven episodes are as f...

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184. Seven Party Personalities: #2 - The Extrovert from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.084934

What is YOUR Party Personality? ☺️🎉🍾
1. The Artist (Ep. 183)
2. The Extrovert (Ep. 184)
3. The Romantic
4. The Introvert
5. The Wishful Thinker
6. The Epicurean...

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185. Seven Party Personalities: #3 - The Romantic from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.079408

What is YOUR Party Personality? ☺️🎉🍾
1. The Artist (Ep. 183)
2. The Extrovert (Ep. 184)
3. The Romantic (Ep. 185)
4. The Introvert
5. The Wishful Thinker
6. The...

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186. Seven Party Personalities: #4 - The Introvert from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.073192

What is YOUR Party Personality? ☺️🎉🍾
1. The Artist (Ep. 183)
2. The Extrovert (Ep. 184)
3. The Romantic (Ep. 185)
4. The Introvert
5. The Wishful Thinker
6. The...

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187. Seven Party Personalities: #5 - The Wishful Thinker from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.067340

What is YOUR Party Personality? ☺️🎉🍾
1. The Artist (Ep. 183)
2. The Extrovert (Ep. 184)
3. The Romantic (Ep. 185)
4. The Introvert (Ep. 186)
5. The Wishful Thinker Listen
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188. Seven Party Personalities: #6 - The Epicurean from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.062130

What is YOUR Party Personality? ☺️🎉🍾
1. The Artist (Ep. 183)
2. The Extrovert (Ep. 184)
3. The Romantic (Ep. 185)
4. The Introvert (Ep. 186)
5. The Wishful Thinker (...

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189. Seven Party Personalities: #7 - The Connector from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.057150

What is YOUR Party Personality? ☺️🎉🍾
1. The Artist (Ep. 183)
2. The Extrovert (Ep. 184)
3. The Romantic (Ep. 185)
4. The Introvert (Ep. 186)
5. The Wishful Thinker (Ep...

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190. #1 - How to Hack a Garden! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.051996

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 simple, summer short cut hacks!
 
How t...

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191. #2 - How to Hack DRIVE TIME! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.047229

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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192. #3 - How to Hack READING from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.042490

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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193. #4 - How to Hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.037182

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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194. #5- How to Hack a CREATIVE PROJECT! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.031822

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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195. #6 - How to Hack a PERSONALITY! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.026072

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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196. #7 - How to Hack a DEGREE! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.019661

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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197. #8 - How to Hack BACK TO SCHOOL! from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.014490

Lisa-Jo and Christie are helping us get unstuck and have courage to do the thing we really want to try this summer! They are giving us 8 Cliff Notes for being a human.

Simple Summ...

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198. Still Sharing a Seat at the Table from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.007794

Key Conversation Points:
  • Why do we keep going with this Podcast Marriage? Lisa-Jo and Christie have learned their dance and we still claim the best stories grow...

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199. Muddling through...the Unexpected from 2023-12-14T03:40:50.000405

Key Conversation Points:
  • We're starting a new series about muddling through and lowering the bar for you! 
  • Have you known anyone in real life that ...

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200. Muddling through...Transitions and Goodbyes from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.993025

Key Conversation Points:

  • Why is Christie afraid of mediocrity? Scared of being normal? Let's not miss out on an experience because we're trying to make it e...

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201. Muddling Through the Holidays from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.986545

Key Conversation Points:

  • How does Diet Coke and KitKats honor God? 
  • There is a sense that the holidays happen if mom makes it happen, but we have ideas on ...

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202. Muddling Through Faith from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.981093

Key Conversation Points:

  • Is muddling through faith the exception or the rule? 
  • Sometimes we can feel like we're following breadcrumbs to connect the do...

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203. Get Cozy for these Recommendations from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.975804

Key Conversation Points:

  • Who needs a cozy book or a new show to pe into? Christie and Lisa-Jo have the best suggestions this week! 
  • Do you enjoy Sherlock H...

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204. How Not to be Held Hostage by Holiday Shopping from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.970327

Don't let the Holiday Hustle Take you Down! 
HOW NOT TO BE HELD HOSTAGE BY HOLIDAY SHOPPING
Join us for a series of conversations about how not to have your holiday season hijacked...

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205. How Not To Be Held Hostage By Guilt from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.963575

How to Not be Held Hostage by Guilt: 

1. Don't be hijacked 

2. Be Aware 

3. Let go 

4. Recognize the Internal Dialogue 

5. Do less

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206. How Not To Be Held Hostage By Hallmark from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.943101

How Not To Be Held Hostage By Hallmark:

1. Leave Blank Spaces

2. Restrain

3. Feel Empty

4. Leave Room for Real

5. Wait

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207. Get Cozy for these Recommendations Round 2 from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.937761

First episode of Get Cozy is #203.

We all need some escapes from the world. Lean into the cozy recommendations mad...

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208. Everything Big Starts Small: Origin Story Part 1 from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.932746

This is the story of a packet of grass seeds and a pitcher of water.

What started out as the smallest, most unexpected parts of our ordinary lives have became the very best bits we couldn...

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209. The Antidote to Dissatisfaction: Origin Story Part 2 from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.927566

This is the story of eating a 3 course dinner soaking wet in the middle of a rainstorm in Zimbabwe.  And the story of yellow leaves falling in the middle of summer in Pennsylvania. And how we ha...

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210. How Our Show Got Its Name: Origin Story Part 3 from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.922486

This is the story about strawberry jam and Wednesday night parenting. Because this is the story about how our podcast got it's name. Buried deep in the thick of the most ordinary things we c...

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211. The One Thing We Won't Do This Christmas (Podcast Vault Series) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.917039

Key Conversations:

This is the story of a terrible, no-good, but oh-so-hilarious Christmas card photo.

These are stories about the things we will NOT be doing this...

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212. Guardian Angels in Disguise (Podcast Vault Series) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.911840

This is the story of having a champion. Especially one who doesn't look, talk, act, or sound like a champion.

This is the story of surprise characters who become plot...

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213. A New Year's"No"Part 1 of 2 (Podcast Vault Series) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.906598

This is the story of a neglected garden and a disappearing act.

This is the first half of a two-part conversation on why we're beginning this new year by saying "No!" loud and...

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214. A New Year's"Yes"Part 2 of 2 (Podcast Vault Series) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.894339

This is the story of what Christie found at the back of a very messy closet.

This is a story about the shadow side of every "Yes."

In our lives, and in this new year, are w...

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215. Conserving Beauty and Community from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.888850

How was Lisa-Jo's trip to South Africa?

Learn about her homeland and you'll come away with hopeful nuggets for your heart.  We all have ways to hold the beauty of coming alongside...

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216. Back to Ordinary Life: Lisa-Jo's reentry from South Africa from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.883433

Lisa-Jo's daughter, Zoe, has a fantastic take on their family's visit back to South Africa. How do our lives change if we can step out of our regular perspective? 

Today you can l...

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217. Beauty in the Messy Middle from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.878148

Can you believe what Christie is doing at Maplehurst? 

Sometimes embodied faithfulness can feel like drudgery.  Today we talk about how staying awake and staying in motion with our faith ...

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218. Does Creativity Get Dusty? from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.872480

Why did Lisa-Jo say she feels like a grandmother? 

As we get older, does the settlement in our age mean we're less creative? If we feel tired does that mean we're past the most cr...

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219. Becoming from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.866262

How did a podcast comment show Lisa-Jo and Christie's blindspot?  Creativity gets more deep and less wide with age. No matter your season, this episode is here to encourage you.  Don't l...

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220. The Gift of the Second Half from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.860921

What did Christie say to shock Lisa-Jo? No one knew this fact about her husband. 

"How do you recognize "enough" when you have it?"  In the second half of life Lisa-Jo and...

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221. We're Not Alone in the Valley of the Shadow of Death from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.855556

Did you know this new word that Christie learned from Lisa-Jo today? You're safe in this conversational space. Wait until you're cozy and alone to listen today as we go deep and possibly...

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222. Building Takes Time from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.850100

Christie has a rare, special guest. They talk about how nothing ever stays the same.  Building something good takes time and thoughtfulness, which involves their home at Maplehurst. They recap t...

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223. Own The Disaster from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.844614

Object lesson today is we don't need to white knuckle life. Have you gotten something wrong this week? 

Wherever you are in your life, we can all relate to the days when we can't ...

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224. Tiny Happy Things from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.839094

What makes your daily life rich? Practicing gratitude as a discipline is the vibe for today.  Lisa-Jo and Christie have a list that you will appreciate. You'll leave feeling lighter and happ...

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225. When Self-Care Gets Crooked from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.833659

How much do you love coffee or wine? Lisa-Jo and Christie are having are riding the sluggard, struggle bus during Lent sometimes and they have helpful nuggets of truth to share with us.  

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226. March Sadness With Hope from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.828440

Christie and Lisa-Jo are taking you behind the scenes today of the pod. Do we make money on the pod? Have you ever wanted to start a podcast? We share a little of what's involved.

Als...

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227. Walk in the Garden from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.823351

The Lover of our souls has been in the midst of our humanity. The Lord loves our listeners. So much will be evident to you in this episode!! To step into conversation with Christie, is to step i...

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228. A Home in Bloom from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.818121

What gift can Lisa-Jo give to her neighborhood? What about you?

Christie has her new book, A Home in Bloom:...

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229. Overwhelmed Much? from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.812716

What gift can Lisa-Jo give to her neighborhood? What about you?

You can borrow Lisa-Jo's dad's advice and his three non-negotiables in life.  Do you agree with him?  Let's get...

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230. The Growth that Really Matters from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.807469

Lisa-Jo and Christie talk about everything from carpool to tea time and everything in between as they help us grow a daily life that matters. At the end of the day, we don't make things grow...

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231. How To Write A Book from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.802016

Anyone need a Mother's Gift idea? Christie's newest book: A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons With Flowers...

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232. Complicated Feelings around Motherhood? from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.796729

Does anyone have complicated feelings about motherhood, whether it's your own mother or being a mother? Did you know Lisa-Jo hadn't always dreamed of being a mom?

Lisa-Jo's fi...

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233. Soul Rest: Checking In from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.791628

What does it mean to live and not just survive? 

We're eternal creatures with souls.  Christie says that our soul is the life of the body. Lisa-Jo asks, "How can we rest without c...

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234. Soul Rest (Round 2) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.786887

Who else is so tired? How can we find rest? 

Not everything in the past three years has been lost. We have to find out where it's hiding.

Sometimes God invites us outside our r...

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235. Soul Rest. Feeling Seen. (Round 3) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.781219

If you're feeling forgotten or unseen, this episode will encourage you. Christie fascinates us with her travels and all the unique details we can only learn from her perspective.  How did th...

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236. When Finishing is Complicated from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.775380

Lisa-Jo and Christie give us an invitation to declutter our souls. Whether you're finishing something or in the middle or very beginning, you need the grace and perspective of this episode! ...

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237. Confessions of our Dirty Closets from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.769289

Motivation matters and Christie and Lisa-Jo are giving you a shot of it today. Quick and painless!

Lisa-Jo and Christie are keeping us company as we struggle with the clutter that has ens...

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238. Making Space from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.763653

What do you need today?

Today we chat about reclaiming space in our souls. There's rest that can come from order in our homes or offices but also rest that can come from order in your...

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239. True Confessions of a Friendship Failure from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.758229

We know friendship isn't always easy. Today we are identifying an issue we all face but as always, there's no prescription.

Picking friendships back up after a hiatus isn't al...

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240. When the Answer To Your Prayer Is NO from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.753441

This is the story of a Jasmine-scented South African summer night.

This is a story about disappointment in God, and this is a conversation about the dreams that do NOT co...

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241. We Were Wrong About Marie Kondo from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.748336

This is the story of the secret shame we all carry about our houses. And the one thing that can free you from it.

This is a story about Christie's house Maplehurst be...

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242. You Called Me WHAT Now?! from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.743572

This is the story of the labels people pin to us - to our bodies or our lives, or our families or our homes - and that we sometimes start to believe must be true.

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243. How to Leave a Critical Review from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.738584

This is the story of our first critic.

Once upon a time in a coffee shop in Chicago when Christie was a brand new English Literature professor a stranger asked her a...

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244. Eat This! from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.733599

If you're like us then you also associate summer with certain foods. And therefore with certain memories. These are the foods and memories that have shaped our summers for decades. 

W...

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245. You're Allowed Everyday Extravagances from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.728833

This is a story about painting a dining room nearly charcoal black. And the hundreds of hours it took.

This is a story about how it turned a dining room into...

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246. These Are the Books That Made Us from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.724106

This is a story about a book Christie loved and Lisa-Jo did not.

Actually, here are stories about quite a few books! Because these are the childhood favorites that helped...

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247. Encountering Goodness from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.719770

What does it mean to pursue goodness? Have we slighted it? Let's stay rooted in our deep and worthy ordinary virtues even though they aren't on a typical list for new year's resoluti...

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248. Seven Basic Tools for Ordinary Living from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.715227

This is a story about how to make ordinary life a little bit easier.

LJ and Christie laugh, talk, and recommend equipment for ordinary living: shoes, headphones, jas...

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249. The Last One (for now) from 2023-12-14T03:40:49.710280

Who needs rest from creating?

In the beginning, God didn't just rest from work but He rested from creating. 

After burn out,  Lisa-Jo and Christie wrap their arms around us and...

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164. Garden Maker from 2022-01-19T08:00

Key Conversation Points:

  • Have you killed a house plant before? It actually doesn't mean you are doomed for garden making. Who knew?! No green thumb? There's grace h...

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146. Help Us Pick a Paint Color for the Podcast from 2021-09-15T07:00

Key Conversation Points:

  • Why doesn't Lisa-Jo need a fake backdrop on her Zoom calls anymore? 
  • We all have a room we'd like to switch up. We have ideas on h...

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35. Why We Cancelled Our First Podcast Party from 2019-05-22T07:00

This is the story of a party that never happened. And the reasons why we're grateful for that.

May 4th was ...

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