Out of the Ordinary: Recent Episodes
Lisa-Jo Baker & Christie Purifoy
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.
Welcome to the episode of Out of the Ordinary that you-our listeners!-made with us. You all asked the best questions and offered the perfect conversation starters (and finishers!) ...
We have arrived at the end of Out of the Ordinary, but every ending is a new beginning. This week, with your help, we share what our ordinary lives are like today, how and why we began this podcast, and the words and images we are using to describe this current season of completion and change.
- We consider the present and how this episode is like a graduation
- We look to the future and how this podcast has been like a bridge
- We give the full story and the honest truth about our friendship, our differences, and why this podcast is coming to an end
- We answer YOUR questions, including whether we might write a book together!
- We look to YOUR future and offer tips for finding new podcasts
Thank you, dear listeners. Thank you, Emily Graffius. Thank you, to our husbands Pete and Jon. And thank you to the best podcast coach and producer EVER Jodey Smith! If you've ever thought about starting your own podcast, you'll want Jodey on your side.
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We felt a pang as we hit record today. This is the second to final episode of 6 years of our conversations. But because conversation with a friend always does good work–we love the place where we landed. We pretty much landed this episode in heaven, didn’t we?
In our second-last episode we reminisce about our six-year journey, the impact these conversations have had on us and our embrace of ordinary life.
- YOUR participation in the finale is requested. Click here to join the last conversation!
- We look to the future and what's next for each of us.
- We reflect on the bittersweet nature of endings, and the hope of an eternal narrative.
- We look to YOUR future and what's next for each of our listeners.
Thank you for the amazing feedback to our episode of Lisa-Jo reading from her new book. And we loved meeting so many of you at the Nooks Book Reading event. Thank you for coming out! You all are our favorites! You can see a little recap of the evening here.
Thank you for reading with us.
Get your print copy here to keep reading Lisa-Jo's new book.
Get your audio book copy here to hear the languages and accents in Lisa-Jo's own voice.
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Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
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How's that for a title? But, friends, it's absolutely true. No spoilers here, but please don't miss the last ten minutes of this episode.
Today we're also delighted to bring you along on a face-to-face, Lisa-Jo and Christie, book celebration day.
- a day of freedom (instead of fear) is possible because God heals the past
- how to ask friends for the support and encouragement we need
- the power of a praying friend
- our podcast has felt like a wonderful dinner party among friends, but even great dinner parties can't last forever
- every end is a new beginning
- we look forward together to the never-ending heavenly feast
We want YOUR questions/comments -- join the conversation here!
Get your print copy here to keep reading Lisa-Jo's new book.
Get your audio book copy here to hear the languages and accents in Lisa-Jo's own voice.
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You're invited! Lisa-Jo will be reading from her brand-new book at the best new bookstore in Lancaster, PA. Join Christie to cheer her on!
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here. Thank you.
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Today we're delighted to bring you a special audio excerpt from Lisa-Jo's new book, It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping that went on sale this week. Step into the South African outback via a storm that started brewing in Maryland.
From Lisa-Jo: I grew up in a family obsessed with stories. My mom used to take me out of school to see “important movies.” Her bookshelves overflowed. And my brothers grew up to make movies for a living.
All that to say, friend, I hope you binge this book.
I hope it reads like a movie. This story that stretches from South African’s outback to Washington, D.C. and traces the overlapping terrible, hopeful histories of my father and me.
I hope you can’t put it down. And then I hope you can’t help but tell other people about it.
I’d be so grateful if you did.
Get your print copy here to keep reading.
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Excerpted with permission of Penguin Random House Audio from It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories by Lisa-Jo Baker; Read by Lisa-Jo Baker © 2024, Lisa-Jo Baker, ℗ Penguin Random House, LLC.
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You're invited! Lisa-Jo will be reading from her brand-new book at the best new bookstore in Lancaster, PA. Join Christie to cheer her on!
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
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This was a breakthrough kind of episode. A little bit like 6 years of therapy condensed into half an hour. We hope it offers you as much of an "Aha" moment as it did for us!
In this week's conversation:
- What if your past isn't your past?
- What if you could go back to the worst bits in your story and re-write them?
- What if your pain isn't fossilized?
- What if your present can set you free from your past?
- Click here for BOGO Offer of Lisa-Jo's new book that expires May 2 at midnight EST.
Podcast links:
You're invited! Lisa-Jo will be reading from her brand-new book at the best new bookstore in Lancaster, PA. Join Christie to cheer her on!
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START listening to the audio book or reading the ebook for It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
We're not sure why it took us so long to figure this out (and understand how much it matters!), but of course this podcast is like a weekly memoir of ordinary life. Here's what that means for you ...
In this week's conversation:
- Christie and Lisa-Jo explore an epiphany: they've been recording a podcast memoir all these years!
- Memoir-writing nudges us to reflect on the distant past
- podcasting nudges Lisa-Jo and Christie to reflect on the recent past
- Lisa-Jo explains the practice she is now using to reflect on the day just past
- What happens when we pause to notice and reflect? The answer is so good, Christie wonders if it's really too good to be true
- Lisa-Jo shares a special invitation for local listeners
Podcast links:
You're invited! Lisa-Jo will be reading from her brand-new book at the best new bookstore in Lancaster, PA. Join Christie to cheer her on!
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START listening to the audio book or reading the ebook for It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Only a longtime friend can get away with asking some of the questions Christie asked Lisa-Jo today. We hope they are a balm to your own scarred places.
In this week's conversation:
- A kind of live therapy takes place between Lisa-Jo and Christie
- Failure turns out to be a powerful catalyst for new things
- Growth looks unlike what we expect else maybe we'd never even try
- If you've ever felt like life is one wave after another and you can't catch your breath, welcome.
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START listening to the audio book or reading the ebook for It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Today's episode began with big smiles, journeyed through tears, and ended with laughter.
In this week's conversation:
- Lisa-Jo explains why her new book is an Ebenezer stone
- Christie and Lisa-Jo realize each witnessed God making things new this week
- personal stories of church hurt and church healing
- what it looks like when God makes the sad things of life un-true
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START reading the first free chapters of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
In today's episode Lisa-Jo shares the story of how God brings each of us to a feasting table, set with a chair all ready and prepared. And what happens if you're willing to sit down.
In today's conversation:
- Lisa-Jo finds herself unexpectedly back in a courtroom setting
- When your hometown is no longer your hometown.
- The difference between an invitation from God vs a pushy God
- How the Kingdom of God moves at the speed of relationships.
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START reading the first free chapters of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
In today's episode we unpack:
- The surprising work Christie has been doing
- How good it is to feel seen and to have our unique gifts acknowledged
- If God is a creator, shouldn't we embrace the creators in our communities?
- How to start this conversation where you are
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START reading the first free chapters of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold). Your ratings and reviews (leave one here) are so appreciated!
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Life is full of surprises, and often, it's in the most unexpected moments that we find profound meaning and guidance. In today's conversation Christie and Lisa-Jo discuss one specific instance that arrived much later in Christie's life than might be typical and how these instances are opportunities to stay receptive and attentive to God at work in the mundane and challenging.
In today's episode we unpack:
- The significance of turning 50 and being a beginner again
- Receiving strength from the Holy Spirit, whether we feel strong or not
- The shift from relying on feelings to being receptive to God's invitations
- A unique church experience for Christie and how it met her in a weary season
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START reading the first free chapters of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold). Your ratings and reviews (leave one here) are so appreciated!
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
In today's episode Lisa-Jo and Christie realize they have both learned how to avoid disappointment and prepare to be happy on a special day ...
- Lisa-Jo is astonished to learn this about Philadelphia
- Christie shares everything she's discovered about celebrating milestones
- These friends ask: how can we better communicate expectations and desires in relationships? With spouses? young kids? teens? with our friends?
- Plus, different communication styles and learning to "stay in the room" to unravel communication knots together
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START reading the first free chapters of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
In today's episode Lisa-Jo and Christie unwrap a Peck of Purple Peppers and share the story of a sentimental seed and the final book in a gardening trilogy.
- It's a book launch gift haul -- unwrapped on air.
- Which of the the three Jane Austen gardening sisters in Christie's Trilogy are YOU?
- How to name a book
- The powerful narratives that seeds and plants carry through generations.
- How our family's shape our stories
- Bonus: Christie reads an excerpt from her new book "Seedtime and Harvest"
- Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
START reading the first free chapters of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping here
Get Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
In today's episode Lisa-Jo and Christie celebrate a four-year project that is finally complete. What's it like to stand at the finish line?
- A conversation between friends on the creative process and completing a trilogy
- Thanks to Lisa-Jo, Christie discovers that her book is like a Jane Austen heroine
- Which of these three books with their distinct personalities should you read first?
- How writing a trilogy teaches you contentment (and how that carries over to parenting and marriage)
- Why some creative projects deplete us and some feel like play
- Why Gardening Matters To Christie (and why it should matter to you too)
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Learn more about the man behind the camera, Zac Simmons, here.
Pre-order Seedtime & Harvest here
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
Pre-order Lisa-Jo's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Pre-order Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
Lisa-Jo has a personal epiphany in the bathtub this week and Christie offers insights on the healing that comes from addressing our shadows.
- We're facing our demons this week -- from the safety of the bathtub!
- Lisa-Jo looks in the mirror of her past and doesn't like what she sees
- Christie points us to the cyclical nature of life that can bring order and understanding out of the darkness--especially as it relates to parenting teens.
- Lisa-Jo tells the story of confronting one of the worst shadows from her past on a stage in front of 4,000 people.
- We want to uncover the transformative power of confronting our past and finding meaning in the pain.
- Christie recommends: Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up with Your Teenager by Eugene H. Peterson
- Lisa-Jo's bathtub read: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
Pre-order Lisa-Jo's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Pre-order Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Emily Graffius on Instagram @emily.graffius and learn more about her work as a TBRI Practitioner, Speaker, and Parent Coach & Cultivate Connection Facilitator. Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
In today's episode, Lisa-Jo and Christie do something they've never done before ... they invite a third friend into the conversation! This special episode was recorded in person in the Black Barn!
- We are together again in the Black Barn!
- Meet our friend and special guest Emily Graffius
- Find out what it's like behind the scenes of the podcast
- We answer ALL of Emily's questions (are they your questions, too?)
- Lisa-Jo and Christie's friendship and why we WON'T be breaking up or falling out
- Insights into motherhood and how to form lasting friendships
- This one ends with a real eye-opener as Lisa-Jo discovers the true nature of her relationship with (wait for it ...) her pillow!
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
Pre-order Lisa-Jo's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Pre-order Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Emily Graffius on Instagram @emily.graffius and learn more about her work as a TBRI Practitioner, Speaker, and Parent Coach & Cultivate Connection Facilitator. Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
In today's episode, Lisa-Jo and Christie reflect on the emotional and creative journey of writing and releasing their upcoming books. They discuss the concept of impact, the pressures of going viral, and the deeper significance of friendship and service.
- Discussion of the process of writing and releasing a book
- Personal stories behind the books
- Emotional journey of sharing your work with the world
- Our cultural obsession with making an impact
- Reframing impact and success
- The impact of sacrificial friendship
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
Pre-order Lisa-Jo's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Pre-order Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
We are back after a five-month hiatus, and we have so much to tell you.
About rest. About work. About creativity and parenting teenagers and the very Big Milestones coming up for us this year.
If you've been feeling overwhelmed and overcommitted, this conversation between two old friends is for you.
- The difference between stuffing vs savoring.
- What is more exhausting -- parenting toddlers vs parenting teens--and why.
- The thing we've hinted at is finally real and alive in the world.
- Christie gets the closest she's ever come to setting a goal.
Podcast links:
We are now ad-free! You can help support our show with a one-time donation here or a recurring gift right here. Thank you. We are excited about becoming fully listener supported.
Pre-order Lisa-Jo's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Pre-order Christie's new book here (or wherever books are sold)
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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 give us grace to pause. Whether you're entering a season of creation or needing a break from creating we can all relate.
Sometimes a season calls for a stop. for a pause. for less. You might not need anything new but need to revisit and savor what you already have.
"Maybe I don't need something new. Maybe what I need is already here and I need to slow down and savor it." - Christie Purifoy
Do we lose momentum in our life if we rest?
Feeling obliged to keep going but you want to stop?
Which alternative to saying "I Did Nothing" (thanks to Chalkboard Mag) resonates with you? God is telling Christie and Lisa-Jo to pause. Out of the Ordinary will be going on sabbatical for the remainder of 2023.
Christie and Lisa-Jo both have books coming out in the spring 2024! Out of the Ordinary podcast will return again in 2024 with new episodes!! It will be so exciting to be together again!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
Christie mentioned these two books in the episode:
Invitation to Retreat: The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God by Ruth Haley Barton
Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life by Margaret Kim Peterson
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, jasmine!, and more. Also, we learn that Lisa-Jo has never heard the memorable 1980s advertising slogan: "Calgon, take me away!"
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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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 resolutions. "I'd really like to be like Ted Lasso." Do you agree with Christie on this? Ted Lasso makes goodness and kindness appealing and powerful. viewer discretion advised for R rated moments
True goodness fights for you, inspires you and makes you braver and bolder. Life isn't about us being good enough for God. Christie lets us know that beauty has been linked with truth and goodness in all different kinds of philosophies.
The writings that are mentioned: Sean of the South by Sean Dietrich and Phantastes by George McDonald.
Podcast links:
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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 make us the women we are.
In this week's conversation, we discover just how much our favorite books reveal about our deepest selves and our relationships. Christie and Lisa-Jo trade memories and titles from The Secret Garden to Lord of the Rings and quite a few you've probably never heard of, let alone read!
Listener invitation: Take a shelfie! Yep, that's a selfie of your bookshelf. We'd LOVE to see your favorite books -- tag us in Instagram @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
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Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
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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 an everyday extravagance.
This week Lisa-Jo and Christie remember the great farmhouse dining room painting saga of their first Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania and how it nearly ruined Christie and her husband's respective backs and arms and attitudes. But how it was more than paint. It was the kind of extravagance we get to give one another on the daily.
Because this is lavish, insanely beautiful grace -- being willing to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, the boring into the extravagant, if only we have eyes to see, and sometimes paint buckets and brushes.
Did Lisa-Jo recognize the transformation? Did her family appreciate the effort taken to create extravagance ahead of their visit? Did Jon and Christie survive the hundreds of hours it took to paint walls and CEILINGS a dark charcoal color? Tune in today to find out as they remember that single room that nearly broke them and all the back-breaking, heart-aching work that went into preparing the way.
Podcast links:
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Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
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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.
We hope listening leaves you hungry. And also, makes you remember. The tastes of your favorite summers and the memories that you can bite into when you close your eyes and picture your plate.
Listener invitation: Won't you tag us on Instagram and share YOUR favorite summer food memory with us? Just share a photo and tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
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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 question about reading and writing. He was pointed. He had opinions. He was her first critic.
We've come a long way since then. And gathered many, many more reviews. And we've gotten better at receiving them. And learned a lot about leaving them.
This is the story of what we have learned -- about reading as much as about writing. And how it's changed the way we think about reviews.
This is a story for anyone who loves books as much as we do. Because to love books is to love authors and learn how to respond to their art with the reviews that we leave. And yes, we read aloud one of our favorite reviews -- not because of how it agrees with us. But because of how it kind of doesn't. And what a great lesson it taught us as readers and reviewers ourselves.
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
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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 starting to say that we will not be accepting those labels today, thank you very much.
Today Christie and Lisa-Jo each share stories about labels they had unknowingly accepted about themselves since they were teenagers. As if they were a shameful secret. As if they should apologize for who they are. Do you know what we mean? Do you have a memory, a throwaway sentence, an insult, a note, a casual, cutting observation that you tucked into your soul and allowed to grow up alongside you as if it was always part of you? So that now that lie is grafted into your DNA and you can’t tell the difference between the label and the reality of you?
Today is the day to toss that label in the trash, friends!
Join us as we speak truth and laughter and reality to the labels that have embarrassed us in the past. That we choose instead to name our lives and our homes and ourselves with the words spoken on the sixth day, “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Podcast links:
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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 being adrift in a sea of mud and construction and the pungent smell of mushroom farms nearby. And what Lisa-Jo's daughter said to change how Christie sees/smells her house.
There is nothing like the power of seeing your home and your life through someone else's eyes. For better or for worse. This week Christie admits her own secret house shame. Lisa-Jo admits all her judgy thoughts about Marie Kondo and they are both surprised by what they learn from this diminutive Japanese woman who is taking us all by storm in her new Netflix show.
Do you have a secret shame about your home? Then this episode is especially for you!
Listener invitation: We LOVE hearing from listeners. Take a screenshot of today's podcast and share it to Instagram. Then share a photo of a special spot in your home that has been kind to you. Be sure and tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy so they see it!
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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 come true.
Christie and Lisa-Jo recorded this episode the week of Christie's twenty-second wedding anniversary. They marveled over the long years of their friendship, and all the dreams-come-true they have witnessed in each other's lives.
But what about those dreams that don't come true?
Can we trust a God who sometimes says NO? Is that God still good?
Lisa-Jo tells the story of her most bitter disappointment and the surprising encounter she had one warm, South African night.
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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 always easy. Not all of us live around family and we need friends to fill the gaps. Even some of us have family close by and guess what? We still need friends. You'll leave today feeling seen and full of grace for yourself to move forward with the friends you want to catch up with today!
In Today's Conversation:
Anyone been in a friendship desert?
Are friendships like shoes?
How do Lisa-Jo and Christie help us skip the guilt-free, overcomplicated crap of friendships?
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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 soul. Lisa-Jo's husband gave her a simple response that helped her soul last week and we know it'll help your soul too! If you feel like you're going to work or your everyday hustle and going to die, we have an idea that will help.
Remember, we can't get out of a hard thing in a week, if we've been in it for a year or three. Lisa-Jo and Christie give us the permission we all need today.
Exercise wisdom in taking time for your body and soul and it gives a buffer to do something different.
How did Christie have to be ruthless in letting go of books?
Need permission to escape from Lisa-Jo?
Can you believe Lisa-Jo waited to read that book for so long?
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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 ensued through this year or two or three. Don't worry because we have guilt-free solutions. We're given revolutionizing yet simple tips today to gain peace in our space. It's just what we all need at this moment right now. Clutter in the mind can equal clutter in the closets. If your space has hit a crisis point, this episode is for you. Lisa-Jo has an epiphany on this podcast and we think you'll appreciate it too!
Did Christie clean up the Christmas wrapping paper yet?
Need quick tips to simplify your space?
Can you believe Lisa-Jo is calling Christie's tips radical?
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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!
When we finish a hard thing, even when we finish it well, it doesn't always feel how we want it to feel. Sometimes when we make it across a minefield, we might not feel delighted but just exhausted. Finishing is a process too. There's not always fireworks at the end.
What does it mean to remember and not be paralyzed while looking back?
Do you have an image like Christie to help you?
How does God's grace parallel with the phrase, "go back and fetch it?"
Soul Rest Series:
1. Soul Rest: Checking In
2. Soul Rest (Round 2)
3. Soul Rest (Round 3)
How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now, by James K. A. Smith
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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 the Good Shepherd connect the dots for Christie and her husband in their time in England? Christie encourages our souls as she finds emblems of connection with broken pieces. We may just have little pieces right now but one day we'll see in full. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."- Hebrews 11:1
In today's conversation: Did you know about mudlarking? How did Christie find bits of the past when she was in England? Does God really care about the details?
Sudden Journeys
Barnwell Mudlark
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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 rhythm and when we get intentional, we see God showing up. So much has happened for all of us in the past three years. Some of that is the disconnection of the body and our souls have been scattered. Christie shares about needing to be gathered up and made whole after years of breaking. You too? Lisa-Jo says, "There's company in just being empty together."
In today's conversation: When Lisa-Jo saw Christie depleted and what did she do? How do we find our souls again? Learn from Christie's experience about how to fix airplane drama. What did Christie share that can hardly be believed?
Sudden Journeys is who helped plan Christie's European travel experience.
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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 checking out?"
Step outside of your normal rhythms. What does rest look like when we turn to the Lord? What extra burdens are we putting on ourselves. If you feel like you're dying, we have some helpful thoughts for you.
We can practice a soul rest in the midst. God breathed life into us in the beginning. Let the Holy Spirit breathe into us now. What does my soul even need? In the past three years, all of us have been through so much and we've held on to each other. Let's all look around and ask, Is my soul connected to my body?
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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 first book is on motherhood, Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I never Expected about Being a Mom. Lisa-Jo reads a letter she wrote to her mom that she hasn't read in a decade. May you be blessed by this raw, deep and vulnerable letter. "You can be sad and you can be well at the same time."
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Anyone need a Mother's Gift idea? Christie's newest book: A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons With Flowers is a perfect gift idea for yourself and the women in your circle.
Want to know how to find fresh ideas? Need inspiration to write? Christie and Lisa-Jo lead you through the Director's Cut version behind the scenes of how Christie wrote her newest book. It will inspire, encourage and help you see Christie's life in a real and new way! Let's all keep waiting for the light!
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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. So much of ordinary life is receiving growth from God.
External measures are not necessary for growth. It really is the internal restructuring of our souls that brings the deepest growth. Gardners can choose to tend a garden or let it grow weeds, as goes our internal growth. The soul will continue on and is designed for eternity. How are you tending to your soul?
Mortality isn't a punishment but an opportunity. Who am I becoming? Am I cooperating with heaven or the enemy of heaven? We're choosing sides all the time. THAT is a daily life that matters.
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What gift can Lisa-Jo give to her neighborhood? What about you? You can borrow Lisa-Jo's dad's advice and his three nonnegotiables in life. Do you agree with him? Let's get back to the basics. His advice is a balm for our bodies and souls. We're made for significance. Our design is a reminder that we aren't built to work 24/7. Every little bit of care for ourselves counts for something. Need help remembering to pray? Christie's got your back with super helpful ideas. Soul Keeping by John Ortberg is the book that's mention and Ortberg shares, "..if your soul is unhealthy you can't help anybody." Lisa-Jo and Christie share so many nuggets of truth that help us get off the hamster wheel. Also, thanks for letting us know what you think about us in the reviews. If you haven't already, please give us a 5 star review today so it helps get our podcast to more people. Podcast links: Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast! Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast. _______ Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible. Click here to visit Green Chef and get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Thrive Market and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Honey Love for 20% with promo code ORDINARY. Click here to visit Nutrafol and enter the promo code ORDINARY to save $10 on your first month subscription. Click here to visit Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your entire order today!
What gift can Lisa-Jo give to her neighborhood? What about you?
Christie has her new book, A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons With Flowers, that we can purchase today! It's an enchanted book for anyone! You don't have to be a gardener to be blessed by this magical way of feeling seen, no matter the weeds in your life or yard. There's no shame here!
Christie lets us know, "Perhaps it isn't even possible to practice resurrection on our own, perhaps it is a way of living that works best when we're living from within relationships and in community." By God's design, presence heals us in community rather than when we're on our own. God created these bodies for nature! We all need some connection with growing things and Christie graciously shows us how!
Out now! A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons With Flowers
Explore Christie's newest book at www.ahomeinbloombook.com \
Soul Keeping by John Ortberg is the book we mention and he profoundly talks about our soul.
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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 inside her garden. God has created us to steward living things.
Christie's new book (releases April 11!): A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons With Flowers
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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.
Also, if your yard or your heart feels a little sad, growth comes slow, don't give up hope! Remember how far you've come. Spring will burst forth...it's coming! Trees can anchor us. Did you know what the Bible says about trees?
There will still be casualties in life. Trees do die and things don't work out but we can keep going. For things to grow, some things have to die. There are always more seeds. E.B. White's husband described a memory of her so well, "she was calming plotting the resurrection." It's never too late to plant the seeds and new things in our lives.
Mentions today: Bower & Branch Fasting Growing Trees and where our podcast picture comes from today. The early-blooming cherry tree is Okame.
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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.
In our self-care culture, it's easy to let our sinful nature take us right back to ourselves rather than the cross. There's a difference in self-care that's life giving for those around us and there's the self-care that gets crooked. We want more excuses to serve ourselves but then Lent is holding Lisa-Jo and Christie accountable in this season.
When you're feeling the "sandy gears of life" be curious and lean into Jesus. Sometimes clinging to something we want doesn't leave space for what can end up being so much better.
Lisa-Jo's brother Joshua battled cancer for 2 years. Do you have a question for God? Listen to Josh's sermon here.
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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 happier as you smile and laugh along! Please tag us with your tiny happy things in your life right now.
Anyone else struggling with your Lent sacrifice like Lisa-Jo? Jesus is here to be her comfort and also yours!
Links from the conversation:
Clarkson's Farm
Blood From a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back From the Deadby Adam McHugh
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine MayGillian Clarke, National poet of Wales
Lisa-Jo's brother's sermon after he's battled cancer for two years is here.
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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 move forward as planned. You think it's going to get nice and it doesn't. Can you believe what happened in Lisa-Jo's kitchen? Baking with love versus science makes for a funny contrast. A moment is supposed to be great and then it's not. Instead of holding on tight, maybe we need to let go.
Lent is a season where we recognize our own morality. Embrace that we don't just make mistakes each time but we sin. Jesus came while we were still sinners and He didn't wait for us to know we needed Him. We can trust the Rescuer and receive His freedom.
Being Transfigured: Lenten Homilies by Chris GreenThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever synopsisPsalm 116:7-8
Isaiah 62:4
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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 the past decade and what's to come while giving tips to us all, no matter our stage of life. Our place can have an awakened spiritual life! Rest is needed in the process. Where is an area that you're needing to rebuild?
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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 dark for a bit. When we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we don't walk alone and God walked through the valley first.
Today we acknowledge the reality of death. Scripture doesn't hide from it and neither should we. What does a good death look like?
Christ's banner is victory over death. Like Lazarus, He calls us out! You guys, please don't forget the Resurrection is here and with us! God turns on the lights!
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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 Christie ponder how we let go of the season of hunger to settle for what's right in front of us. This season is more settled with a deeper and targeted work without a hungry need to consume everything. It's good to get to a point you feel full and not push past it. There's an overflow in life. Being more settled is a relief and a strength. This episode will really give you peace, if you're in the second part of life and give you something to look forward to, if you're not quite there yet.
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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 let the anxiety of finding the "one right road" stress you out. The end goal isn't to be the best version of you but you're part of something bigger, it's part of joining God in His Kingdom work. When you look at "becoming" as fruitfulness, you can't miss it. Nothing is meaningless or permanent. Lisa-Jo and Christie share a purposeful perspective for our ordinary lives.
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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 creative season in our lives?
Lisa-Jo and Christie dig into the facts that we're made in the image of our Creator. Our limits may adjust and our spectrum of change may be different but there's more freedom in creativity as we get older. Join the conversation and get permission to not have to master all the new things and remember to let creativity be sparked in community!
We'd love to hear when you felt you were the most creative
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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 is a messy journey. We don't romanticize life here. Staying awake to what God is doing is sometimes like falling forward. If you want to sleep-walk or numb the pain, we have some glimmers of hope for you. Being in the process is not bad. Cleaning dishes every day is annoying but in order to stay awake we can't have tunnel vision for just today! This episode will give you some perspective for all of us who are in the muddy middle somewhere in our life right now.
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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 learn from other main characters across the world. There's relief for not being the main character ourselves. We don't have to travel to grow in this area, spiritually or otherwise. Ever had a big change from travel, revelation or on a regular Tuesday with God? It has to become part of us and we can't go back to sleep. Let's help each other stay awake to our own lives!
Lisa-Jo mentions the book, The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis.
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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 others in their life-changing work. When God invites us to steward his creation it costs us something. It applies to us in the middle of the ordinary, boring lives while being smack dab in the middle of our redemptive lives. It all matters.
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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 we the gardeners sowing seed, or are we the soil in which our Maker plants seed? If we ARE the soil, how do we prepare ourselves to receive and nurture the RIGHT seeds?
These are the questions Lisa-Jo and Christie explore as they trade stories in the second half of a two-part New Year's conversation.
Book mentioned in this episode: The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
Scripture mentioned in this episode: Luke 8: 4-15
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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 clear.
Ordinary life is a gift offered to each one of us, but did you know that ordinary life isn't actually inevitable? That ordinary life--with all of its wonder and beauty--is actually soil to be tended?
One of the most important ways we're tending the ground of our lives this year is by saying "No." We invite you to listen, and we invite you to join us this year in growing smaller in order to gain so much.
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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 twists in our teenage memories.
This is how people are very often very different than what we expect them to be. And how two unlikely guardian angels imprinted on the teenage stories of Lisa-Jo and Christie in ways that are just as vivid today as when they were seventeen.
And how that affects their parenting today.
We hope today you'll pause for a minute and look around your ordinary life for the extraordinary angels hiding in your plot twists.
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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 Christmas season.
Does the approach of Christmas feel a little less joyful than you wish it would? Are you already tired? Already feeling inadequate to the demands of the season?
Then this episode is for you.
We can't tell you exactly what you should or shouldn't do this season. We have no three-step plan for success to offer. But we have our stories. We have our own questions. And we have our faith in the God who is with us no matter how empty or sad or afraid we might feel.
We invite you to listen. We invite you to respond. What will you NOT be doing this Christmas in order to receive more this Christmas?
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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 could think of was the surprising discovery that everything we valued most might easily be described as ordinary, if not even boring on some days. It was an unexpected person who pointed out to us the obvious name for our show that we'd totally missed. Which in turn inspired us to start looking at these small, seemingly ordinary traditions as landmarks in a family. Because we believe that ordinary life is inherently more than enough to make a difference at the cellular level of our lives. In a culture that worships bigger, faster, more, here is the story of how we aim to push back and dig deep into the spiritual truths that the Kingdom of God has always been best reflected in a grain of wheat, a mustard seed, a widow’s mite, a small jar of oil, five loaves and two fishes. We want to offer our listeners permission to find value in their everyday lives again. Podcast links: Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
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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 have often both been so desperate in our dissatisfaction it took us years to find the antidote. But in this episode we share what that looks like, how to apply it in your own life, and the very best place to take all your longing and dissatisfied dreams. In this episode we share some of the biggest demands we've made of God and how He's answered. It wasn't what we expected.
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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 imagine life without. We're delighted you're joining our conversation. Visit with us as we go back in time to our very first episode.
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First episode of Get Cozy is #203.
We all need some escapes from the world. Lean into the cozy recommendations made by Lisa-Jo and Christie. Things that will grip your soul, make you cry, laugh or make you scared for what's going to happen next. There's something for everyone. Healthy binges and exciting intrigue!
Christie's recommendations:
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
The Door On Half-Bald Hill by Helena Sorensen
Lisa-Jo's recommendations:
Trying on AppleTV
Inside Man on Netflix
Alaska Daily on Hulu
Join the Black Barn Online
Chapter Two of the Black Barn Literary Society begins December 2022
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How Not To Be Held Hostage By Hallmark:
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Leave Blank Spaces
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Restrain
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Feel Empty
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Leave Room for Real
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Wait
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How to Not be Held Hostage by Guilt:
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Don't be hijacked
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Be Aware
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Let go
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Recognize the Internal Dialogue
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Do less
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Leave Room
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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 this year!
- Embrace emptiness
- Make a list
- Thrift
- Be inspired by books not social media (Christie enjoyed Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book)
- Decide ahead of time what your family story will be
- Find freedom through the practice of Advent - the fast before the feast
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- 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 Holmes? Let Lisa-Jo explain how this book ties to him. A Study In Charlotte series by Brittany Cavallaro.
- Who loves the "Lord of the Rings" and knows about this new show?! The Rings of Power new TV series on Amazon Prime.
- This book premise is an Author-Mission Impossible dude who shows how Christ saves us. We're shown a version of Jesus in a shocking way and God's passionate pursuit of us. The Murphy Shepherd series by Charles Martin.
- "The Great British Baking Show" is something Christie is loving right now and can watch with her family! She loves how it sets the baker to succeed and isn't insanely competitive.
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner is one of the most beautiful memoirs Lisa-Jo has ever read.
- British comedy is Christie's vibe right now. "The Detectorists" is a show that has three seasons so far and has metal detector characters. This show is funny, thoughtful and kind.
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- Is muddling through faith the exception or the rule?
- Sometimes we can feel like we're following breadcrumbs to connect the dots but guess what we see when we look back?! Lisa-Jo and Christie share moving and personal stories to show us what faith looks like.
- Faith isn’t passive but it's an in motion experience.
- We are a loaf of bread that God breaks to multiply.
- The Black Barn Online community here.
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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 how to make it less stressful.
- The low bar is sacred and intentional. We can be creative and still not go overboard.
- We're not creating an image for social media, but an experience for our family. The planning and preparation is most importantly in our hearts.
- Christ wants you to come to communion as you are and not just when you have it all together.
- Song Mention: "The Meal We Could Not Make" by Son of Laughter
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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 extraordinary!
- There is grace in muddling through the unique transitions and goodbyes that aren't ordinary or daily. We can do it differently than our past.
- If you're wanting to mark a ritual as something special, you may not have to look far.
- Lower the bar in a healthy way. Give yourself permission to be a human. Whether a kid is driving, going to college or something else....do whatever you can to take off the weight it can bring.
- Books mentioned:
Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self by Chuck DeGroat.
Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys by David Thomas and Stephen James.
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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 has gotten rabie shots?! Christie's is a real life person who has muddled through a bat encounter. * Muddling through is a choice. It's not always making the best of it but it's just accepting it. * Adult temper tantrums don't move us to peace and doesn't make us feel better. * Lisa-Jo's daughter reminds us in the intense, crazy moment we can say, "It'll make a great story tomorrow."
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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 out of ordinary life! * There is no golden ticket around the corner and that's as it should be. * This podcast is like a table and each week we sit and look at our completely regular life and think it's enough. * We keep going because we need these reminders too! * Thanks for sitting with us for four years and here's to SEASON FIVE!
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Click here to complete the quiz with Aisling Interiors on the space you want to redesign, then use code “ordinary'' at check out to receive 10% off any booking.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to purchase the book Liturgy of the Ordinary and use the code TISH22 for 30% off the book.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
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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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
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How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
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How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
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How to hack READING (Ep. 192)
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How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY (Ep. 193)
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT (Ep. 194)
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How to hack a PERSONALITY (Ep. 195)
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE (Ep. 196)
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL (Ep. 197)
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #8- BACK TO SCHOOL
- Your kids may have already started or you may not have kids, Lisa-Jo and Christie have nuggets of help for you too!
- Clear out the clutter and cobwebs in your mind.
- What is something in your home that's rubbing a blister in your heel?
Hack Self-Care during Back to School:
- Treat YO SELF!
- Feel your feelings and be gentle to yourself.
- Make a fall season bucket list!
- Forget spring cleaning, back to school cleaning brings peace!
- Change up the scenery and freshen up the place.
- Get your physical health appointments made and also get the fun things in your calendar too.
Got anyone who needs some grace and encouragement? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to purchase the book Liturgy of the Ordinary and use the code TISH22 for 30% off the book.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
-
How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
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How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
-
How to hack READING (Ep. 192)
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How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY (Ep. 193)
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT (Ep. 194)
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How to hack a PERSONALITY (Ep. 195)
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE (Ep. 196)
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #9- Hacking a DEGREE
- What do you want to learn more about? It's never too late to learn new things.
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Listen to how Lisa-Jo and Christie have both hacked degrees.
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You can read the first few chapters of a book on Amazon, watch YouTube videos, TV shows, podcasts, books and chase down footnotes in a book.
- SkillShare is an affordable way to learn more as this website has recruited people in their field.
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Sometimes you can find someone you want to learn from that's teaching a course and find the topics and books they'll cover in their course.
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Christie encourages us, "Lifelong learning adds so much richness to our ordinary lives."
- Lean into your passion, no matter how quirky it may sound.
Got a learner in your life? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to complete the quiz with Aisling Interiors on the space you want to redesign, then use code “ordinary'' at check out to receive 10% off any booking.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
-
How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
-
How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
-
How to hack READING (Ep. 192)
-
How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY (Ep. 193)
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT (Ep. 194)
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How to hack a PERSONALITY (Ep. 195)
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #5: A CREATIVE PROJECT
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Decoding yourself, your kids and your people is its own hack to see the broad strokes of why a person moves through the world. Suggestive hacks Lisa-Jo and Christie have found helpful:
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Please Understand Me II: Temperament Character Intelligence by David Keirsey
- StrengthsFinders
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Christian Enneagram
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To love your neighbor as yourself, you must love and understand yourself.
- Sometimes understanding yourself can be healing but it can leave you feeling very exposed.
- Do you feel trapped in your habitual responses? Christie talks about learning tools to get out of that box.
- Lisa-Jo reads David's vulnerable writings in the Psalms 139.
Got a someone that would love learning more about personalities in your life? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to complete the quiz with Aisling Interiors on the space you want to redesign, then use code “ordinary'' at check out to receive 10% off any booking.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
-
How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
-
How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
-
How to hack READING (Ep. 192)
-
How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY (Ep. 193)
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT (Ep. 194)
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How to hack a PERSONALITY
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #5: A CREATIVE PROJECT
- Lisa-Jo would have never guessed Christie's shocking creative project.
- Always ask: Is this creative project for me to do, or someone else or a hybrid?
- Love is the thing that you can bring to the project that no one else can.
- Don't let fear keep you paralyzed but keep going.
- You have permission to lean into things and decide what's best for your project!
Got someone who has a creative project idea in your life? Share this week's episode with your people raising all the kids!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
_______
Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to complete the quiz with Aisling Interiors on the space you want to redesign, then use code “ordinary'' at check out to receive 10% off any booking.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
-
How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
-
How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
-
How to hack READING (Ep. 192)
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How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY (Ep. 193)
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT
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How to hack a PERSONALITY
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #4- FEEDING YOUR FAMILY
- Decision fatigue is a real thing in feeding our families! Lisa-Jo and Christie share tons of details on making life easier for you!
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Hacks to Feeding your Family:
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Have a daily rhythm through the week.
- Christie has weekly, specific plans.
- Take the children in your care grocery shopping with you.
- Provide the equipment so kids can cook their food themselves.
- Clear out the fridge, crisper drawers and eat up!
- Implement a Fast Food Hack by going to a grocery store that has an incredible deli!
- Lower your standards and remove the barriers.
Anyone with a family!? Share this week's episode with your people raising all the kids!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
_______
Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to complete the quiz with Aisling Interiors on the space you want to redesign, then use code “ordinary'' at check out to receive 10% off any booking.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to purchase the book Liturgy of the Ordinary and use the code TISH22 for 30% off the book.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
-
How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
-
How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
-
How to hack READING (Ep. 192)
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How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT
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How to hack a PERSONALITY
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #3- READING HACKS!
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How to Hack Reading:
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Read more than one thing at a time.
- You have permission to skip, skim or soak in the book.
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Order from the library because it's budget friendly.
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How to hack getting your kids to read:
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Take them into a local book store to wonder and find something on their own.
- Be hands off and let them try a book you wouldn't pick for them.
- Be hands in, as far as being aware and coach them without them knowing.
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Don't correct their interpretation but be willing to listen with excitement.
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Christie and Lisa-Jo are leaving books in other places around the house so they can read at any moment.
- Lisa-Jo has a genius hack with the Kindle APP! Did you know about it?
- Embrace Audio Books, like Christie has, while her family travels or as she has time alone.
- Christie reminds us that reading isn't just to learn but a way to learn new ways of seeing, new ways of creativity and new ways of enjoying ordinary life.
- Christie's daughter is reading The Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sullivan.
Got a reader in your life? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
_______
Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to complete the quiz with Aisling Interiors on the space you want to redesign, then use code “ordinary'' at check out to receive 10% off any booking.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 Summer Short Cut Hacks!
-
How to Hack A GARDEN (Ep. 190)
-
How to hack DRIVE TIME (Ep. 191)
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How to hack READING
-
How to hack FEEDING YOUR FAMILY
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How to hack a CREATIVE PROJECT
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How to hack a PERSONALITY
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How to hack a FREE DEGREE
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How to hack BACK TO SCHOOL
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #2 DRIVE TIME HACKS!
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Lisa-Jo and Christie want you to feel like your drive tIme is an award.
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They share Audio hacks with Audible, Bible reading and more.
- Take time to reconnect with yourself.
- Bonus Parenting Hack with Drive Time: Teach the teens to be aware of the family's schedules.
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Connect with others.
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Do whatever you need in drive time, to connect with friends, family and God.
- Christie enjoys the self-care she has implemented in her quiet, solo drive time because the house can be louder during the summer. She can listen to anything she wants. Can you relate?
- Lisa-Jo has found that combining the cocoon of the car with a treat with kids is a huge win!
- Christie mentioned Peter Grainger's DC Smith mystery series in audio format here.
Got a Driver with long drive times in your life? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
_______
Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to purchase the book Liturgy of the Ordinary and use the code TISH22 for 30% off the book.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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 to Hack...
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A Garden (Ep. 190)
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Drive Time
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Reading
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Feeding Your Family
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A Creative Project
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A Personality
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A Free Degree
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Back to School
We're saving your life this summer with 8 easy hacks to simplify your life! #1- How to Hack a GARDEN!
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Tips to Hack a Garden:
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Embrace the mess.
- Start small or else go big.
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Cardboard is your friend.
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Christie reminds us that "participating in the natural rhythms of creation is so satisfying."
- You don't need a big budget to grow a garden.
- Let go of total control, the need to impress other people and the desire for things to always look pristine.
- Lisa-Jo states the truth we need to hear by saying, "If we want deep relationships with people, we have to dig into the messy."
Got a Gardener in your life? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!
Click here to purchase the book Liturgy of the Ordinary and use the code TISH22 for 30% off the book.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary135 to get $135 across 5 boxes and your first box ships free! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well!
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month.
Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order.
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. 187)
6. The Epicurean (Ep. 188)
7. Connector (Ep. 189)
This summer on the podcast we’re deep ping 7 different party personalities and Type 7: The Connector is up today!
*Big celebration for the podcast- We've hit over ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS!!*
- The point of the Connector Party is to connect people across their differences, this could be a family reunion or a regular coffee date with some friends.
- This gathering is more self-sacrificing while you think of others and meet people where they are at that moment.
- If connection is the goal, we'll find a way to do it without control.
- Family gatherings can have a lot of pressure to live up to in order to make it perfect. Lower the expectations! Unclench your fists and be unoffendable, as Lisa-Jo tries to do.
- Lisa-Jo asks the most thoughtful question to her family when she visits. "What does help look like to you?" Part of being a good connector is being a good listener.
- Elrena Evans's Book Launch Party is mentioned and her book is "Special Grace: Prayers and Reflections for Families with Special Needs."
Got a fantastic connector in your life? Share this week's episode with them!
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries! https://www.thrivemarket.com/ordinary
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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. 187)
6. The Epicurean (Ep. 188)
7. Connector
This summer on the podcast we’re deep diving 7 different party personalities and Type 6: The Epicurean is up today! * Can you believe after all this time there's a story that Lisa-Jo had not heard about Christie's Epicurean party? * Epicurean is a sensual enjoyment in things that you eat or drink. Take time to savory the elevated ordinary tastiness in our lives. Welcome them into our summer and our parties! * This party does not have to be expensive but good at palatable, delicious moments and it's not always something you eat. * Can you believe after all this time there's a story that Lisa-Jo had not heard about Christie's epicurean party? * You should not invite everyone you know to every party! Christie gives freedom to have boundaries with party planning. * Art of Gathering by Priya Parker gives many tips on gatherings!
Got an epicurean in your life who loves to savor the moments? Share this week's episode with them! Podcast links:
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
https://www.oliveandjune.com/ordinary
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary130 to get $130 off including free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! https://greenchef.com/ordinary130
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month. http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary
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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
6. The Epicurean
7. Connector
This summer on the podcast we’re deep diving 7 different party personalities and Type 5: The Wishful Thinker is up today! * What birthday is Lisa-Jo nervous about? * We all need a friend like Christie that takes our dreams and wishful thinking in stride and can make it happen. * Be creative in the stories you tell yourself. Let the wishful thinker dream! Then speak your dreams out loud. * Wishful thinking doesn't have to equal unrealistic thinking but it equals CREATIVE thinking. Make it fit to what's reality in your life. * You can aim for something that seems to be good, worthwhile and the right thing. We can't know the unknown so just start with tangible steps to fulfill the best party you can throw for yourself or your person. * Lisa-Jo mentions "Day in the Life: Night Edition."
Got an dreaming wishful thinker in your life? Share this week's episode with them! Podcast links:
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
https://www.oliveandjune.com/ordinary
Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary130 to get $130 off including free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! https://greenchef.com/ordinary130
Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month. http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary
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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 Epicurean
7. Connector
This summer on the podcast we’re deep diving 7 different party personalities and Type 4: The Introvert is up today! * Real conversations around a table are perfect for the introvert and good for all of us who need some intentional connection in our week. * The Bible says that "kind words are like honey" and a dinner party can feed the soul like honey with words of encouragement and depth. * Put on your calendar specific connections with friends that are non-negotiable, even if it's around the table at a restaurant. There are no rules on how this has to go! * With a smaller party, the host can experience it the same way as the guest, which is different from hosting a big party.
Got an awesome introvert in your life? Share this week's episode with them! Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
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Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.
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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 Epicurean
7. Connector
This summer on the podcast we’re deep diving 7 different party personalities and Type 3: The Romantic is up today! * It transcends all the personalities! We all have a romantic in us. * Why did Lisa-Jo have a party at 4:30am? * Lisa-Jo and Christie help you figure out how to ignite your inner romantic for a party that's out of the ordinary, completely unnecessary and unexpected. * A fun, whimsy and "just because" party takes you out of your routine and it can feel like a storybook with store bought goodies. There is no pressure for homemade food you guys! * A Time to Keep by Tasha Tuder sets some romantic party themes in August and now Christie and Lisa-Jo are determined to get a cake to float down the river. * It is very easy to find your inner romantic after this episode. Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy in your party moments this summer. Let's all learn from each other's unexpected parties!
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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
7. Connector
This summer on the podcast we’re deep diving 7 different party personalities and Type 2: The Extrovert is up today! * Christie threw a party for her extrovert daughter’s graduation and it was a huge hit! * Learn how an outdoor projector, projector screen, twinkle lights and cheesecake makes the perfect party for lots of friends. * Extroverts help us see the world in a different way and they create parties with everyone in mind. * There's always a risk of vulnerability when gathering your people. Christie assures you that if you're freaked out, you're not alone. * Party prayer that's similar to The Barn Blessing for Christie is, "Please don't let half the food be left in the oven."
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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 follows: The Artist, The Extrovert, The Romantic, The Introvert, The Wishful Thinker, The Epicurean and the Connector!!
- The summer podcast is something perfect like a beach read which is not heavy but lighter and delightful.
- How can pizza and crepes build your community?
- Christie had the artist perfect party and has all the tips! For the artist, what is the story you want your party to tell? Artists see things that aren't there and imagine connections that aren't obvious.
- Learn why Lisa-Jo says Christie's Garden Book Launch Party makes the Top 10 Parties of her life!
- Think of the experience you want someone to have and map it out accordingly.
- We can experience our art alone but when we bring all creativity in one shared space then everyone is operating in the strength of their shared gifts.
Podcast links:
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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 unpicturesque views inside our four walls in the evening are the moments that bind us.
- Be intentional with your people where you can and all the rest of life you do the best you can, because much of life we can't control anyway.
- Reflecting on the story of your days helps you find the meaning in it.
- As you decontruct your days, see beyond the ordinary and push past it to see the beauty. A visual snapshot is powerful.
- Keep being curious about your story. Time doesn't stand still and it's not always sad that it keeps going.
Podcast links:
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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 her book, Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, "Might we consider boredom as not only necessary for our life but also as one of its greatest blessings....a precious chance to be alone with our thoughts and alone with God."
- Middle of the Day Quiz: Are you productive and focused like Lisa-Jo or need a boost like Christie?
- Madeleine L'engle's explanation about time from Walking on Water brings a godly perspective to our minutes and our days.
- Lisa-Jo quotes her past professor, a Catholic attoney, as she processes a holy rhythm of what God wants with our time which is more than billable hours.
Podcast links:
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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 your day with Lisa-Jo and Christie. Join them as the sun rises as two regular moms process their regular mornings. Solidarity!
- Please raise your hand if your kids drink coffee with you in the morning?
- It's interesting to decode the parts of our lives and psychology of what makes us feel safe in comparison to how we prepare to work for the day.
- Does your brain try to trick you with your intentions too?
- Lisa-Jo talks about how she must deep dive to the quiet bottom of the ocean to get the long stretches of focused time for whatever creative work needs to be done. Tell us in the reviews about your morning routines. Let's all learn from each other.
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
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Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month. http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary
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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 relationships with us is something that's important for our growth.
- We are the protagonist of our own stories but remember our moms are the protagonists in their own stories too.
- Christie graciously encourages us to try not to focus on the little fragments with our mothers but focus on the little details that could shimmer like jewels.
- Christie and Lisa-Jo mention: "50 Things About My Mother" by Laura Brown and Mary Karr's memoirs which talk all about motherhood with details about how she navigated very difficult experiences with her mother and still found a way for a relationship.
Podcast links:
Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast!
Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast. https://www.blackbarnonline.com/
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Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June!
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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 middle of a very busy season without being a zombie or robot. She explains how the goal isn't to paddle to the top of the wave.
- Do you have stupid voices that lie to you like Lisa-Jo? Do they have a British accent?
- Christie and Lisa-Jo help us navigate our heavy loads by the box mindset and the filing system in our minds so there's not the out-of-control chaos.
- Matthew 6:34 "Each day has enough trouble of its own."
- Lisa-Jo gently reminds us that being willing to sit and be submerged with one hard thing ...that's doing something. Jesus meets us there too.
Podcast links:
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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 and churches. We can grow in our mindfulness about their unique needs and learn how to love them and their warrior families.
- Feeling alone in a crowd with the unique needs of your children can be the loneliest feeling in the world.
- Have you ever been judged with people's eyes and voices like Lisa-Jo?
- Lisa-Jo and Christie take the time to remember the past to encourage those in the trenches with little kids today. Whether you need a prayer about an EpiPen, a tantrum, a bus driver or hope, Elrena Evans has the balm for the weathered heart of caretakers of children with unique abilities.
- If you have children in your life, in any way, there's a book you need on your bedside table. The book recommendation today is Special Grace: Prayers and Reflections for Families with Special Needs by Elrena Evans, Foreward by Joni Eareckson Tada. It will help the helpers, parents, therapists, neighbors, friends and the church leaders that love these families.
- Reminder: There's a few more "Garden Party at Maplehurst" tickets available! Click here to buy them now.
Podcast links:
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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 circles whether it's an Easter Egg Hunt or an easy potluck.
- Church service can be in your kitchen over soup as you share the heavy parts of your story. Gathering and church can be simple, sad and beautiful in your own house, in your own way.
- What sense of belonging do you have with your friends and if you don't have it, can you start something like Lisa-Jo and her two friends started? Tell us in the reviews what you do to meet intentionally and regularly with your people.
- Christie is hosting a Garden Party at Maplehurst in May!!! Purchase tickets here now because there's only 50 tickets available. They'll sell quickly.
- Revisit Episode 29 from the Podcast Vault : Our Easy Recipe for Hospitality.
Podcast links:
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Key Conversation Points:
- Last week's episode is here if you’d like to listen to that first as Lisa-Jo and Christie continue to delve through the meaning of hope.
- What conversation did Lisa-Jo and Christie have that started 14 years ago about a small God?
- Is the Storyteller feeling sketchy to you too sometimes?
- You’re allowed to wail and ask questions to God through suffering. Jesus was "acquainted with grief," just like us. Suffering isn't a sign of failure.
- Sometimes you need a friend to hold the rope of hope, when we've lost all strength.
- God doesn't say "I can't use her because she's in the fetal position."
- Rom 5:3-5: "Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character hope. And hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured out..."
Podcast links:
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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 it's utterly vulnerable and uncomfortable.
- C.S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity, "Hope is one of the theological virtues...hope is not a form of wishful thinking or escapism."
- Does hope mean for you as it does in the Hebrew translation, the cord that binds you to God? Your mind will be blown by how it connects to Rahab!
- Christ is holding us and he is the rope. If we let go, He won't.
- In 1 Corinthians 13 it says faith, hope and love remains. We can't dismiss it. Hope is eternal.
- Hope isn't a feeling. God wants Shalom in us.
Friends, please take a moment to subscribe to the show and leave us a review! Podcast links:
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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 as they delve through winter, waiting and hope.
- Straight up ugly is Zoe's favorite. Do you see the beauty in the dead of winter too? Even with everything gone, there's still the roots underground.
- How did Lisa-Jo and Peter eat their words during the pandemic?
- God gives good gifts and waits until the perfect time.
- Jesus doesn't want to give us a thing but wants to give us HIMSELF! He doesn't give a life preserver, but instead he gives His presence!
- Thank you Cornerstone for your ministry!
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Key Conversation Points:
- The ordinary moments anchor us and connect us across neighborhoods, states, countries and oceans....even for Lisa-Jo's friend in Ukraine.
- Lisa-Jo graciously reminds us that acts of extraordinary courage are getting up and advocating for our kids, sick spouse or family abroad or taking time to serve at church or sharing our platforms with someone. It all is courageous in the middle of hard times when all we really want to do is stay in bed.
- The rhythms of anticipation can feel like Christmas, even as we feel stuck in the end of winter.
- What is engraved in Lisa Jo’s bag that anchors her in such a powerful way right now? Let us know in the reviews what is anchoring you right now. We want to hear your stories.
- Read Psalm 77 in The Message, “I yell out to my God, with all my heart…and He listens.”
Current ordinary rhythms for Lisa-Jo and Christie:
What the Land Already Knows: Winter's Sacred Days (Stories from the Farm in Lucy) by Phyllis Tickle Bitter and Sweet: A Journey Into Easter by Tsh Oxenreider. Amazon Prime show called Upload by Greg Daniels who created The Office and co-created Parks N Rec. Dick Francis's detective novels where the heros are ordinary and unexpected. Dorthy Sayer writes mysteries in Lord Peter. Podcast links:
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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-Jo states that, "Art can be a crossing guard, doctor, chef, writer, mom raising humans or a grandpa tending to his friends at the nursing home. It is art because we have the nature of God in us."
- Curt Thompson explains, "We are people with great longing...it is in our DNA to create things..we don't want to create things of mediocrity but evil wants to disrupt all of that and in that trauma we become people of great grief."
- Don't let platitudes smooth us past the hard moment.
- Did you know C.S. Lewis fought in a war? Christie's Narnia talk takes us deeper.
- You model God's art as you live in the simplest ways.
Out of the Ordinary Suggested Reading and Music:
- Shannan's Instagram Post.
- Timothy Willard's Instagram Post about CS Lewis's war and beauty.
- Curt Thompson podcast interview is here.
- "One Chance" by Tim Be Told.
- Greg Lafollette's "Songs of Common Prayer" are here.
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Key Conversation Points:
- How can we enlarge ourselves for someone else's story?
- What does it mean to embrace the ordinary smallness because therein lies the glory, the DNA, of Christ. Lisa-Jo's intimate perspective on Ukraine is so vital to understand right now. Learn from her memories and experience.
- Where Lisa-Jo used to work in Ukraine is the area that flashes across the news all the time right now. Who knew that building has so many special treasures?!
- How do Lisa-Jo's Ukrainian friends still have their ordinary mornings even in the midst of hearing bombs exploding in the background?
- We can't opt out on the ordinary, holy moments and only focus on death and destruction. Sorrow and every day life can hold hands.
- What does Christie mean about naming and unnaming? How can it push back darkness?
- Shannan's Instagram Post is here.
- Lisa-Jo's Ukraine Post is here.
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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.
- Where do we want to be by our next birthday? Hear about how Lisa-Jo and Christie are making plans!
- Lisa-Jo's husband, Peter, said, "We think our job as a Christian is to produce something FOR Christ instead of receiving something FROM Christ."
- Will we accept Jesus's gentle invitation to go deeper? Even when it cuts deep. Are we willing? Jesus is willing.
- Getting healing can also mean pain comes too.
- Lisa-Jo revisits past pain and past trauma. God doesn't give you the old thing you lost but something new and miraculous.
- The podcast that is mentioned from three weeks ago: "When you Feel Like You're Drowning."
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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 online at the Black Barn Online.
- Sometimes God calls us to do things that don't make sense to the world.
- Christie states, "I didn't know I needed it in my life but now I know." If you know you know!
- Doing the right thing and following your dreams..isn't always a party. What's the dream that's burning in your bones and it's okay if it doesn't look like the picture in your head?
- Do you want to see the holy in the routine? Come see all our favorites: Click here to join our email list and get access to the 2 year anniversary issue of Paper&String
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Key Conversation Points:
- Let's take stock with some highs and lows, including dirty, dumb dogs, hypochondriacs, friends and tea.
- There's "not a lot not to love" about Christie's new book! If you haven't bought it yet, click here to read about reflecting God's majesty and glory as our Creator and a little bit of heaven on earth through flowers.
- Lisa-Jo flew to Denver this week to interview with Focus on the Family about her book The Middle Matters which is a collection of love stories about ordinary life!
- The saved stories are in Lisa-Jo's IG about her Denver trip and Kristen's cozy cabin.
- Thanks to Lisa-Jo, have you ever heard of the greatest thing EVA for relaxing that Christie just discovered?
- Christie always reads "Winter Solstice" with Rosamunde Pilcher every winter and the tea in the book has become one of her favorites. The tea is Lapsang Souchong.
- Christie's been visiting other podcasts and having a blast. Christie will be a guest on these podcasts: The Stories Between Us with Shawn and Maile Smucker and Saving You a Seat with Karen Hardwick.
- What are your highs and lows this week? Please tell us in the reviews. It's encouraging for all listeners to read. Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy on Instagram so they can see your highs and lows as well.
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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 answer! Find out how!
- Lisa-Jo states that "God is not waterboarding us." Since he's not, then what's the purpose through this pain in the tsunami?
- An excerpt is read from The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, "The prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please him best."
- We aren't meant to be the peaceful center in our storm, it's Jesus. We're not meant to play that role for our kids, family or friends.
- Jesus wasn't asleep on the boat because he didn't care. He had the peace in the middle of the waves.
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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 just allowing randomness in our lives for no reason but he's making a pattern. Do you see it in your life?
- Christie and Lisa-Jo show us the courage and struggle of owning ALL the parts of our story.
- Anyone can be a gardener. Trust Christie on this. We're reminded that our life is not random. God knows where all the the seeds are planted.
- Lisa-Jo read from the Chapter entitled "Seeds: Ready, Set, Grow" from Christie Purifoy's new book Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers. The book is available for purchase now. It's a book about becoming!! Grab a few copies because you'll want to share it with friends!
- Lisa-Jo has a whole story about Maplehurt on her IG stories saved here.
- Christie reads from "Flowers of Importance" on page 137 in her new book "Garden Maker."
- Canon 80D is the camera Christie uses for her photography.
- Tag @christiepurifoy and share about this podcast. Christie and Lisa-Jo will choose a listener to send a signed copy straight from Christie's home to the winner.
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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 here.
- Christie Purifoy has written a new book named "Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers." Thankfully, it's not just for those with a garden.
- The great thing about Christie is that she's been the one intimidated about growing a garden. She gently guides us through the process with a few seeds. Easy peasy!
- Need proof that you need more flowers in your life? Christie and Lisa-Jo are showing the need that we have deep in our souls that only grows from the soil of a garden.
- Click here to watch the trailer of "Garden Maker."
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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 though they aren't on a typical list for new year's resolutions.
- "I'd really like to be like Ted Lasso." Do you agree with Christie on this? Ted Lasso makes goodness and kindness appealing and powerful. Tell us in the reviews what you think about Lasso. viewer discretion advised for R rated moments
- True goodness fights for you, inspires you and makes you braver and bolder.
- Life isn't about us being good enough for God. Christie lets us know that beauty has been linked with truth and goodness in all different kinds of philosophies.
- The writings that are mentioned: Sean of the South by Sean Dietrich and Phantastes by George McDonald.
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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. He doesn't need a clean pantry or tidy bedrooms to be present with you in the hole.
- Lisa-Jo said our body, day and new year is God's country. What does that mean? Are you the King or Queen in your land?
- Christie has a book coming out at the end of the month with another one due soon. She still is calm in the middle of the hustle even though she has an insane workload right now. How does she do it? What does she say she needs more of? Do you agree?
- This new Venite prayer app is more Scripture and prayers with no burden.
- Advice from an amazing garderner: Every year something will be a disaster but something else will be a marvel.
- It is our 4th New Year together on this podcast! We need your comments and 5 stars to fuel our hearts as we keep going!
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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's okay if there's chaos, we're talking about the heart of your home...in the ordinary and in the crazy!
- Winter is either your season or it's not. It can linger on or we can find some ways to find the joy in the middle of the cold and bitter winds.
- There just might be hope that's coming in the next season. There just might be new wine that comes out of the grief.
- Lisa-Jo is reading from "And The Greatest of These" from The Jubilee, by John Blase
- Christie's is reading from The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater.
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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't afraid of the waves.
- Let's lean into our dear friendships when it gets hard instead of leaning out. Especially now. Especially after this year.
- Can you be "prayer in action" in this season for someone? Jesus didn't just talk about rescuing, He did it.
- Look for the face of God this week. He's there in the ordinary moments and in the faces around you.
- Lisa-Jo is reading from "My Faith Leaks" from The Middle Matters by Lisa-Jo Baker.
- Christie's is reading from "Writing a Sermon, December 23" by Mary F. C. Pratt found in Light Upon Light, compiled by Sarah Arthur.
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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.
- Fairy Tales can encourage our hearts. How? You'll hear about it in this episode.
- Have you ever thought "if only my strength could match my determination?"
- "Follow Me" will lead you home. Maybe not home for the holidays but definitely home to the heart of God.
- Lisa-Jo is reading from "Nazereth" in God Speaks through Wombs by Drew Jackson .
- Christie's is reading from "The Search For the Secret King" by Eberhard Kurras in The Christmas Story Book, collected by Ineke Verschuren.
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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, needing a real Jesus in the darkness.
- We all need a balm of hope to nourish our hearts during this season that helps us take a deep breath.
- Winter is a pause and gives us space to reflect on where we really are, not where consumer culture is wanting us to be. Where is your heart today?
- Lisa-Jo is reading from The Shadow Doctor by Adrian Plass.
- Christie's is reading from: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander, edited by Thomas Hoffman.
- Follow Lisa-Jo Baker @lisajobaker and Christie Purifoy @christiepurifoy
- Please let us know how this podcast encourages you in the comments.
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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 it!
- What products make you so happy? See if you hear about a new thing that will make your life better. There's super affordable options too!
- Have you seen "Parks and Rec?" We can fill you in- Treat Yo Self origin here
- Lisa-Jo's list:
Hair Wand -L’Ange Le Spirale in Blush 1" (25MM) Titanium
Nail polish- Olive and June Get 20% off first-time customerʼs
order of any Olive & June system.Use Code: Lisa-JoBaker
Shower Cap
Tabletop Fire Pit and fuel
- Christie's list:
Fleece-lined leggings
Jo Malone cologne
Paris tea
The Divine Hours
Thursday Murder Club
One Long River of Song
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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 that are perfect gifts for you home. Please leave comments about what you love the most in your home as gift ideas for listeners!
- Does a person on your list need some practical gifts that will bring joy? Every gift on this week's episode fills a specific need, while bringing relief, happiness and peace!
Lisa-Jo's Gift Suggestions:
Cast Iron Skillet Handle Cover
Ninja Smokeless Grill XL
Click here for the idea of an inside garden.
Big chalkboard
Pet Odor Eliminator Spray for Dogs
Wireless Remote Control Electrical Outlet Switch
Heavy Duty Yard Cart
Christie's Gift Suggestions:
Lodge pre-seasoned skillet
White Flower Farm Amaryllis
Le Creuset Dutch Oven
Illume candles - Woodfire
To see more humor and real life follow Lisa-Jo and Christie on IG at @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
National Adoption Month is November
- We have an idea on how to impact children in foster care to find their forever familiy this holiday season. Tennessee Kids Belong equips the community to dramatically improve the experience and outcomes for children in foster care. Our podcast editor, Emily Graffius, works for TKB. One part of what they do are video shoots called the I Belong Project™ which uses high quality videography to give children in foster care a face and a voice. These videos serve as individual recruitment tools for children who are legally-free for adoption and are waiting for their forever family. If you'd like to donate items needed to make the day special for these children seeking a place to belong, click here for the wishlist. Many thanks!
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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 to your list this year! We can all do something to impact foster care and help children have a place to belong. Click here for the wishlist of items.
- Gift giving can be tricky depending on ages and where everyone on your list lives. Lisa-Jo and Christie have thought ahead and have some ideas for you!
Lisa-Jo's highlights for family gift-giving this season:
Hair towel turban Life 360 Taboo Popcorn Maker DIY Bracelet advent calendar
Monogram and color coordinated bath towels Christie's highlights for family gift-giving this season:
Dixit Hario Olive Wood Pour Over Coffee Stand Set Gooseneck Electric Kettle San Lazaro coffee
Mission Lazarus artisan goods Turkish Bath towels Universal Yums To see more humor and real life follow Lisa-Jo and Christie on IG at @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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National Adoption Month is November We have an idea on how to impact children in foster care to find their forever familiy this holiday season. Tennessee Kids Belong equips the community to dramatically improve the experience and outcomes for children in foster care. Our podcast editor, Emily Graffius, works for TKB. One part of what they do are video shoots called the I Belong Project™ which uses high quality videography to give children in foster care a face and a voice. These videos serve as individual recruitment tools for children who are legally-free for adoption and are waiting for their forever family. If you'd like to donate items needed to make the day special for these children seeking a place to belong, click here for the wishlist. Many thanks!
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- Lisa-Jo and Christie said "middle finger" on the podcast. What is up with this story?!
- Lisa-Jo shares about how we're supposed to love our neighbor when they're literally and actively trying to make our lives miserable.
- Christianeze isn't real life and the Good Samaritan parable is super difficult to live out. Feelings aren't relevant when we're trying to obey Jesus because he says to love them anyway.
- Who was the mystery man in the dark corner?
- Jesus doesn't let anyone off the hook, the one who needs a neighbor and needs mercy... THAT person is your neighbor.
- Take a peek inside Christie's new book here. It's available for pre-order right now from your favorite bookseller.
- To see more humor and real life follow Lisa-Jo and Christie on IG at @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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- Faith and Halloween can be uncomfortable to talk about but Lisa-Jo and Christie talk through the tension of the American holiday with clarity and grace.
- As they reminisce about Halloween traditions, please share in the comments about how this holiday has united your neighborhood.
- Who were Christie's neighbors in Chicago and how did Lisa-Jo never know this?!
- Christie asks and answers her question, "Halloween is the eve of what?"
- Lisa-Jo shares with passion and a lump in her throat, "We don't have to be afraid of the things that haunt us."
- Believers in Christ don't have to be afraid of death and the explanation is in the podcast.
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- What happens in South Africa at 11am and 4pm every day? Should Americans integrate this too?!
- How did only three choices at the store help Lisa-Jo breathe?
- God's first language isn't English.
- Putting on fresh eyes, helps us gain major perspective.
- God's comfortable in all the new places we go, even the dark.
- When you're discouraged by a sliver of your story, there's hope. Lisa-Jo and Christie share why.
- Christie mentions the Grocery Run podcast here. Follow Christie on IG @christiepurifoy
- Find Lisa-Jo's Reels of her South Africa trip are on IG @lisajobaker
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- Lisa-Jo's son passionately said, "Now listen, it's not as bad as you think." Mothers everywhere clutch their pearls at these words.
- The invisible work that no one sees matters. Find solidarity in this episode for the work you do, whether you have kids or not.
- Bearing witness to a human's life is a heavy gift. We can pause with intentional reflection but not give into the quicksand of hopelessness.
- The richest, best blessings cost us.
- There's no promise from God if you do X,Y, Z and 1, 2, 3 then everything will be okay.
- "The Weight of Memory" by Shawn Smucker is mentioned in this podcast.
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- Lisa-Jo learned new things about Christie, right along with the listeners today. Decades of friendship and there's still things to learn! Grab your tissues!
- Sometimes Christie plants things and loses track of them...but God doesn't forget to finish our stories. How has a seed that was planted finally grown in Christie's life?
- God is too creative and amazing to leave meaningless, dangling loose ends.
- Have you tried to snip things out of your story? God doesn't discount dreams, no matter how old.
- Lisa-Jo reminds us, "Courage is a part of the word encouraged."
- Why DOES your grocery run matters? Link to last week's episode that was discussed is here.
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- What's your guess for Christie's new, life-giving rhythm that she didn't ask for but is receiving well?
- Christie's grocery list befuddles Lisa-Jo and we can learn from this! Clue: There is such a thing as imposter olive oil and it may or may not be sitting in Lisa-Jo's pantry right now.
- When do you have space in your week to free your brain? Ideas are in this episode!
- Let's remind ourselves WHY the meaning in the middle of our weeks really matters! It can be a sacred liturgy.
- What new thing is Lisa-Jo doing that she hasn't done in 4 years?
- When you travel overseas, gift shopping looks so different. We have the tips!
- Lisa-Jo states, "What you take for granted in your life is special to someone else."
- Find us on Instagram Lisa-Jo and Christie.
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- 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 Christie as they discuss the lowbar of hygiene, losing tempers at stupid socks and men who don't use their phones for incoming calls.
- Christie, "The ordinary can feel like the quicksand that's got a hold of us."
- Our work can feel wasted in the routine but there is a renewal of all things.
- Does our refrigerator really give us a look into our mental state? Heaven help us!
- How is it possible to commune with God in the daily, ordinary tasks?
- Nicole M. Roccas writes in her book, Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life, "Time...becomes not a fatal loop of mortality but an upward spiral, a never ending dance of love drawing us farther up and farther into the eternally loving God."
- How is there beauty in dying flowers and how can it parallel our life? Lisa-Jo learned a lot from Floret Flowers on IG.
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- Season 4 is here!! We're switching things up! Thanks for your survey responses because they've been so eye-opening and life-giving.
- Listeners say they feel less alone when listening, love the authenticity and honesty. Please share your lovely thoughts on the podcast reviews.
- We're returning to our roots with the title "Out of the Ordinary" and growing deeper in our roots with a show that helps you grow a daily life that matters. In a world that loves bigger, better, fast, and famous, Christie and Lisa-Jo are here to remind you that the very best stories actually grow out of the soil of everyday life.
- We want to see our daily lives with ordinary eyes. Unpacking stories where we find meaning in the daily tasks of emptying the dishwasher, taking kids to the doctor, cooking for friends, bus adventures (more in today's podcast of the never ending bus ride)...and even going to therapy is a part of our stories that matter.
- What's your guess on how many listen from overseas? Let us know where you're listening from right now in the reviews!
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- 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 how to choose some color!
- How do you sidestep pain in your life? The joy we found in our weekend projects may help you too!
- Listening to advice has its place and we need your input! Please take 60 seconds to give us your opinions here.
- Living in the ordinary days helps fulfill our dreams, even in the doubts and second guessing we have permission to change things up.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness All Around You
written and read by Shannan Martin.
Visiting Author, Shannan Martin, shares a reading from her latest book!
Feel free to visit Shannan online here for more on her books. You can find her on IG as well here.
Key Conversation Points:
- Shannan's book is a gracious and frank read that opens our eyes to our callings in the ordinary places between laundry and leftovers, as she shows us how to stick with people for the long haul even through risks and brokenness.
- Lisa-Jo explains, "I was terrified of being ordinary', and with that one sentence Shannan Martin sums up every single one of us. Certainly me. And then she deconstructs the cliche of ordinary and puts it back together with pictures and stories and sidewalks full of people who will make you want to cry or sing or despair or dance or rail or just quietly whisper, amen. This book is a new pair of eyes. Go ahead, open them!'
- Through this book we're guided towards seeing that we're right where we're supposed to be and she shows us through her gifted storytelling how to see past our judgements and find authentic community with the neighbors at our ordinary tables.
- Don't we all know a child who needs us to step up for them? Shannan shares that "sometimes it takes a child to raise up a village shining light on its shared purpose for the sake of each other."
- You don't need a passport to change the world, you just need to open your front door. Listen as Shannan opens her eyes and heart to the boy standing on her front porch.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Back Roads to Belonging: Unexpected Paths to Finding Your Place and Your People,written and read by Kristen Strong.
Visiting Author, Kristen Strong, shares a reading from her latest book!Feel free to visit Kristen online here for more on her books and her new devotional book coming out in October.
Key Conversation Points:
- Have you struggled to fit in? Wondering if you belong anywhere? Lots of changes have come to you this year and you need to find a new community?
- Kristen, the military wife with homes in ever changing zip codes, gives the experience and grace to lead us down the back road of finding belonging. It's not the popular busy path and it's not the unimportant and unworthy path either.
- Lisa-Jo explains, "Kristen has been the voice inside every woman’s head at some time or another when we have doubted where we belong in the world, sometimes paralyzed by the fear of fitting in, and need a new map for figuring out our place in the world."
- Kristen shares legit hope that's not sugar coated with 3 easy steps to friendship. Her book is a breaktaking dose of her real and honest journey.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming is written and read by Drew Jackson.
Visiting Author, Drew Jackson shares a reading from his new book!You can find everything about Drew here. Preorder his book wherever books are sold! Coming September 14th 2021!
Key Conversation Points:
- Jackson is a pastor in NYC and he uses his gifts to weave together the Gospels while painting words with lament and hope in the worlds of social justice, pop culture, theology and much more.
- Jackson explores the first 8 chapters of Luke's Gospel with poetry in a unique and liberating way. He writes, "Enough of this unbelieving religion that masquerades as faith. Divine favor is placed on what we have disgraced."
- Christie explains how poetry explores "feelings, ideas and experiences that are the most difficult to express in words."
- There's deliverance in the Gospels. Jackson, with incredible brillance and depth, gives his gift of poetry to make a more whole, just and peaceful world for us all.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Can You See Anything Now? written and read by Katherine James
Visiting Author, Katherine James shares a reading from her latest book!Katherine James has also written about her son's herion addiction and this article articulates the book well.
Key Conversation Points:
- There are trigger warnings of failed suicide attempt, self harm and drug abuse but you can trust this author to lead us gently with empathy and hope.
- Christie explains that Katherine James, "explores the painful depths of human hearts but this author is someone we can trust."
- Katherine's debut novel is placed in a small town with raw, deep and intriguing characters from the first page on. Margie is the painter who is suicidal and her husband is the therapist who doesn't think he's making a difference. It's the evangelical neighbor that doesn't give up on her people that will become so endearing. You'll find parts of your people peppered through these pages and it'll make an impact.
- Although we see the brokenness and pain of real life, we also see the grace and miracles of real life too.
- You won't be able to put this Winner of the Christianity Today 2018 Fiction Book Award page turner down as your curiousity and adrenline make you stay up late to finish it.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Growing Slow: Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Accidental Farm Girl, written and read by Jennifer Dukes Lee
Visiting Author, Jennifer Dukes Lee shares a reading from her latest book!Feel free to visit Growing Slow for more on the book! Jennifer also has lots of freebies and exclusive content here.
Key Conversation Points:
- Have you gotten mixed up and turned around and need a reset to a bruised heart from the hurry and hustle?
- Take a deep breath in and exhale slowly as we learn from a gracious and kind accidental farm girl about how to take our foot off the gas to our crazy life and grow slow.
- Lisa-Jo explains that Jennifer "charts a path for us out of the pressures of bigger, harder, faster, and into a more rooted way of living where the growth of good things is deep and lasting."
- The first chapter is entitled: "Permission to be Unspectacular." Full stop.
- Jennifer gives us hope to live a simpler life by harnessing what's not working anymore with spiritual insight. She gives possible, manageable, bite-sized morsels of truths to chew slowly in order to learn a new path that gives more life, more peace and more deep soul rest.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
The Weight of Memory written and read by Shawn Smucker
Visiting Author, Shawn Smucker shares a reading from his latest novel!
Key Conversation Points:
- If you've loved anyone that's received the worst news of their life, this book will help you navigate the depths of their feelings.
- Here is a story that makes us ask questions about what is real and what is true in our own lives.
- Here is a grandpa and a granddaughter who straddle two timelines, two realities and discover where they intersect in beautiful and unexpected ways
- Is the lady with the silver hair really who we think she might be?
- This sticky ending will leave you thinking about it, stuck on Shawn's small town life and four friends whose lives intertwine with a lake and a little girl in deeply mysterious ways.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
Key Conversation Points:
- When's the last time you've let yourself escape with a book for a long period of time? We have a plan for you as summer ends! Sources of inspiration are coming your way!
- We're talking all things awkward and awesome about meeting authors, from screaming in the airport to giving the wrong book for the author to autograph.
- Christie so graciously explains, "Writer finds reader and reader finds writer. No one is high and the other is low. We need one another."
- What's a book that's really impacted you? Please tag us on social media!
- Lisa-Jo observes, "The great thing about writing...your words can go out and really resonate with one person and then somehow that person is linked to your story...We are in this together."
- "I could do a weird thing right now." If you've ever thought this, Christie may have you beat.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt
Key Conversation Points:
- How does dripping sweat get us to dripping beauty?
- When is it right to say goodbye and to let something go?
- If you're envious about people having summer homes, this book will help you.
- Referring to our book choice Christie says, "I just want to gobble it up all summer long."
- Lisa-Jo reminds us that houses are a lot like people and they ground us.
- What makes a house magical is that it becomes a vessel for family history.
- Now we all want chocolate truffle parties!
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Too Small to Ignore, Wes Stafford
Key Conversation Points:
- How did Lisa-Jo and Christie's recent trip to Lancaster, PA remind Christie of Narnia?
- A Virtual Event is coming! Listen for details about this incredible unique celebration to see into Christie and Lisa-Jo's friendship and life.
- We must believe children in what they tell us about abuse. "I BELIEVE YOU!"
- Wes Stafford writes that there's an invisible war raging over our children but Satan and God don't forget they exist.
- What's a way to open up your home to children without having them in your home?
- Christie says, "If I have three children, then at the very least I should sponsor a child [with Compassion] for each one. If our family grows, then our Compassion family will grow."
- Find out how you can have access to French food with raspberries, lemon and chocolate.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
The Book of Common Prayer
Bonus books mentioned today:
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer
A Child's First Book of Prayer
Key Conversation Points:
- A secret bookstore
- How to borrow someone else's prayers
- What Christie DIDN'T steal from her church pew
- What Lisa-Jo didn't know was ALLOWED to live outside of church pews
- How to help your children pray
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
Key Conversation Points:
- Christie shocks Lisa-Jo with a 20-year old revelation
- What Lisa-Jo's dad has in common with Fantastic Mr. Fox
- The one thing Christie's dad most wanted to do while at Maplehurst this week
- What children know that grownups often won't admit
- Where this book falls on the Roald Dahl sliding scale of creepiness
- Why even children need conflict in their stories.
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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 about the story behind their books.
This week Christie is in the hot seat with a big new reveal.
Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers, Christie Purifoy
Key Conversation Points:
- We go behind Christie's newest book to give you the scoop on the title and the key change that made the subtitle so pitch perfect
- Christie shares the brand new skill she had to learn to make this book possible
- Lisa-Jo brags about how she influenced the cover photo, which was never the one Christie had planned to use
- We learn how the pandemic impacted Christie's garden and how this book rescued her flowers
- This book has something to say to every gardener and non-gardener alike about the value of your life.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium, Elizabeth Peters & Kristen Whitbread
Key Conversation Points:
- What makes the American Girl dolls so appealing?
- Why Christie is not a fan of the Tolkien or Rowling extended books and worlds
- The spoonful of sugar history that Lisa-Jo likes
- Meet Christie's creepy twins and the story behind them
- Why we care about truth in our historical fiction
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Cover Her Face: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery, P.D. James
Key Conversation Points:
- The psychological benefits of rereading
- Why we think that the antihero is a lazy trope
- The role of religious figures in detective novels
- How detectives teach us to see the people around us
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Mare of Easttown
The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie
The Secret of the Old Clock, Carolyn Keene
Adventure Series by Willard Price
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Key Conversation Points:
- How Lisa-Jo first met Jim Gaffigan
- What it's like to have a fourth child
- What we all do when we can't imagine an experience someone else is having
- What humility and laughter have in common
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Tasha Tudor's Garden by Tovah Martin
Key Conversation Points:
- Lisa-Jo and Christie have mini panic attacks related to the admin of life
- What's lurking beneath Christie's garden (and you'd never know from her Instagram photos)
- What if you didn't have to deal with the business of being human? Is there a downside?
- The one thing NOT to say to a gardener
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Perelandra (Voyage to Venus), CS Lewis
This is the second book in Lewis's Space Trilogy
Key Conversation Points:
- Why this is the Narnia series, but for grownups
- Why CS Lewis called earth, "the silent planet" and what it means for us
- What if you could be a fly on the wall in the garden of Eden. Spoiler: You can! And here's a clip.
- When and why not to believe the voices of fear
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Books:
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, Karen Foxlee
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield
"Instructions" by Neil Gaiman (poem)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
How the Books We Read Help Us Better Understand the Lives we Lead:
- Why Lisa-Jo has a very "non-magical" Maplehurst visit this time around
- How magic shows up in our ordinary lives and what it does
- The two ways that Fairy Tales offer us to see our so-called ordinary differently
- What Fairy Tales and the Gospel have in common
- A magical reading by Christie
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
All Fall Down by Ally Carter
Book 1 in the Embassy Row series
How the Books We Read Help Us Better Understand the Lives we Lead:
- Lisa-Jo is suspicious of her own point of view and here is why
- Christie asks what YA spy novels have to say about real, ordinary, grown up lives
- They dip into Lisa-Jo's former life as a diplomat
- Why we learn more from fiction than self help books
- What this novel might teach you about yourself and your beliefs even if you never read it
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, by Alexander McCall Smith
What this story teaches about your story:
- How to understand the choices we've made
- What to do when life feels like it's narrowing in, rather than widening out
- The power of choosing what you already chose
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love, by Katherine James
Key Conversation Points:
- Why Lisa-Jo was jealous of a mother living through every parent's worst nightmare?
- Whether Lisa-Jo or Christie tends to be the more judgey and what the antidote is
- Christie's honest response to hard headlines
- How books help us decode our own darkest nights.
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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 it can help you make sense of your story too.
These aren't book reviews or recommendations, these are conversations about some of our best friends, worst enemies, toughest coaches, most passionate lovers, and kindest teachers that line our book shelves.
As we begin season 3 of the Podcast, we thought it was time for a new twist to our conversations. And letting books be the jumping off point for these chats between two old friends we know you've come to love, adds a fun new dynamic to an old favorite. Whether you're a reader or not, we hope these conversations, as always, help you see the deeper story hidden right in plain sight in your ordinary life too.
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Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Key Conversation Points:
- How to know if you are reading a trustworthy author?
- Why Lisa-Jo has a preference for comfort plots.
- Christie's love of puzzles, mysteries, and mazes. And why you might end up loving them too.
- That dead-end road in your life decoded.
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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 out hundreds of stories grown out of the soil of their ordinary lives. Today they share about how the podcast has grown and is about to branch out into a new area.
We're so grateful you've been with us on this journey. And we're excited about this new turn in the road. So don't miss the big reveal next week!
In the meantime, we invite you to read Psalm 126 with us: (as you picture Lisa-Jo arriving with armloads of groceries and goodies for their first time recording in person again after the pandemic year).
It seemed like a dream, too good to be true,
when God returned Zion’s exiles.
We laughed, we sang,
we couldn’t believe our good fortune.
We were the talk of the nations—
“God was wonderful to them!”
God was wonderful to us;
we are one happy people.
And now, God, do it again—
bring rains to our drought-stricken lives
So those who planted their crops in despair
will shout “Yes!” at the harvest,
So those who went off with heavy hearts
will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing.
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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 particular turn of the earth. So come March 20 we had to share a new intro with our favorite ordinary spring things. These are the stories behind them.
Come on in, get comfy, here we go.
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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, Maplehurst. It's where all the episodes have been recorded in person until 2020 when everything went into lock down.
Today Lisa-Jo and Christie welcome all their listeners back into this moment of finally being reunited in person, in this special place that holds the DNA of this podcast.
It wasn't what either of them expected. And it's a microcosm of another place they've been building with a community of friends during the lockdown year.
Come on in, get comfy, here we go.
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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 installment of our short "Re-entry" series. Here is how two storytellers unpack the complicated feelings surrounding re-entry. By telling the stories of what that line physically looked like for each of us.
Christie and Lisa-Jo clearly recall the moment that a stripe was drawn through time, marking a before and after that we didn't even realize we were stepping over.
Join us as we share those stories - one as bright as balloons and one as stinky as compost. Let's slowly unpick those weird plot twists together.
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And Then It's Spring is the book we refer to.
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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 belong.
As the world slowly steps back into March and crosses the one year mark since it shut down, we're all bound to process that differently. Join us today as we continue our short series of stories about what re-entry looks like. Today it's through the lens of travel ---from back in the pre-COVID day.
Here is how two storytellers unpack the complicated feelings surrounding re-entry.
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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 world slowly steps back into March and crosses the one year mark since it shut down, we're all bound to process that differently. Join us today as we begin a short series of stories about what re-entry looks like. Teachers, therapists, and pastors all have different ways of processing this transition.
Here is how two storytellers unpack the complicated feelings surrounding re-entry.
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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 as we get honest about what it looks like to live on that greener patch of grass and why we wouldn't choose to stay there.
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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 basement and a South African farm with us and feel the dust on your hands and in your lungs. Because dead things aren't the end of the story.
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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 "anonymous days" that all feel the same may we suggest you try this?
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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 their friendship right now.
We hope this helps next time you think God passed by your house when it comes to answered prayers.
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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 were trying to steer clear of, this conversation is for you. It's an acknowledgement that as much as we crave control, we rarely actually are in control. And that somewhere out beyond the high waves is where we get glimpses of mystery.
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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, sharing what it's been like to be married to creatives who totally pivoted from the degree and career that was planned and launched out into the scary world of entrepreneurship.
It's an honest conversation that helped Lisa-Jo and Christie experience what it's like to be on the other side of the microphone--having the freefall experience of trusting someone else to tell your story, not knowing what they might choose to share or how.
Their husbands honestly unpack what it means to support a creative, how to combat resentment and how to define success. It's a must listen today!
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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 have waited a long, long time for this yes and she walks us through what helped and how it felt.
If you're in a season of waiting, you're not alone. We really do believe God is with us. With us in the tears and frustration and questions. We do not wait alone.
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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 comfortable, and cast your mind around this winter season for all the things that make it special. We're reflecting on the stories behind our favorite ordinary winter things today. If you've been listening for a while you know that each new season we update our show intro to reflect our favorites about the new season. Today is the day and it's winter's time to shine!
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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 and a divine calling that shows up in each of our ordinary lives. How gathering doesn't equal fancy and full is always about more than the food.
At the end of a long year, on the cusp of a new beginning, pause with us to remember how God has tucked good gifts even into this season of not gathering. All is not lost. Indeed, everything is still waiting to be savored.
This is the last of our December series intended to celebrate the season together. We hope this Out of the Ordinary advent countdown calendar has brought you practical ideas and real joy right in the middle of your ordinary, extraordinary Christmas season too.
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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 than you think and also more rewarding.
Each week in December we'll be counting down a new way to celebrate the season. Simple, ordinary, and totally do-able. We hope this Out of the Ordinary advent countdown calendar brings you practical ideas and real joy right in the middle of your ordinary, extraordinary Christmas season too.
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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 ease to us.
Each week in December we'll be counting down a new way to celebrate the season. Simple, ordinary, and totally do-able. We hope this Out of the Ordinary advent countdown calendar brings you practical ideas and real joy right in the middle of your ordinary, extraordinary Christmas season too.
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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 heavier this year than maybe in the past. This is music that reflects the mood here at the end of 2020 and will help carry us across the finish line.
Each week in December we'll be counting down a new way to celebrate the season. Simple, ordinary, and totally do-able. We hope this Out of the Ordinary advent countdown calendar brings you practical ideas and real joy right in the middle of your ordinary, extraordinary Christmas season too.
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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 this Out of the Ordinary advent countdown calendar brings you practical ideas and real joy right in the middle of your ordinary, extraordinary Christmas season too.
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Links from this week's episode:
Luci Shaw’s “Christmas Stars” from Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation
Walter Wangerin’s Preparing For Jesus: Meditations on the Coming of Christ, Advent, Christmas, and the Kingdom
Gayle Boss, All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings
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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 totally unexpected. And we share how several listeners surprised us in the most beautiful ways this week.
Thank you. You made us happy cry and we're grateful. And you gave us this conversation about how sometimes dead things turn out to be alive after all.
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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 through them?
Lisa-Jo and Christie walk us through their friendship and how to have a hard conversation. There's nothing more ordinary than a disagreement, right? Is there a way to have one that doesn't leave us all in various states of tears, stress or rage around the mashed potatoes and gravy?
Today we unpack the ways we're finding to navigate through the landmines of those daily difficult moments.
We hope you feel welcome. No matter where you're entering this conversation from.
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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 jarring, less pure delight. It surprised both of us.
Also, thanks to the kind listeners for their very thoughtful responses to our conversations. You are the third chair at the table and you give us so much to think about.
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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 going home might not be possible for all of us.
Today Lisa-Jo and Christie both share stories about interrupted travel home and what to do with that universal longing when we can't actually go home.
It's the unexpected gift from a Father who does call us home and will bring us there safely, maybe taking the long way.
PS: If you've never left a review for the podcast, we'd so love if you did that today. It helps new folks find the show and we're always grateful to pull up another chair!
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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 the small instead of keeping score.
Thank you for being with us on this journey of unpacking all the extra in our ordinary lives. We're so grateful to have you as the third participant in all these conversations.
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The Meal We Could Not Make
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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 because of a question a listener asked about how Christie finds the time to read poetry. Or how Lisa-Jo finds the time to watch so many movies. Listen in for their answers.
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The Monty Don -- UK's most beloved gardener
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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 Wonderbread or a fancy French Baguette. There might be more to Christ calling himself, "the bread of life" than we've ever actually considered before.
No shortcuts; this is the long way around considering why our love for bread is so enduring.
Quotes from the show:
“How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?”
—Julia Child
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” —Mahatma Gandhi
Hymn: I am the bread of life.
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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!
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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 Crime podcasts actually do.
What Penny writes are morality tale crime novels that understands how murder, like Christ taught, begins in the heart, often decades before the actual crime.
And what anchors us when we feel overwhelmed by the brutality of the world is the exact so-called ordinary life that Christie and Lisa-Jo savor on this podcast. And that Penny writes so vividly in her novels.
May this episode be a reminder of how the ordinary rhythms of life—satisfying food with friends, a warm bench in the sun, the joy of a library--are like a lighthouse in the storm, a cape of good hope, a sanctuary of goodness. No matter how terrible, dark or scary the world outside might seem.
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Louise Penny's books in order.
Christie's Garden Club: blackbarngardenclub.com
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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 subconscious is totally biased when it comes to what favorites rise to the surface. We'd love to hear what favorites you secretly didn't know were deeply meaningful to you too!
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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 worst kind of pinchy, uncomfortable new shoes and we're here with our weirdest episode yet exploring the protocols for whether or not you should be required to wear pants at home, proper etiquette for second grade Zoom buddy hangouts, and a $7,000 mouse!
Whether you need a good laugh or a good cry today, we're here for you! If you can relate, won't you leave us a review? We sure appreciate the encouragement in these days of nothing-feels-ordinary-like-it-used to be life.Find us on Instagram!
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**This is a story about how sometimes our wants NEED to trump our needs.
Following up from last week, t**oday we share some very UNbasic and almost impractical tools that make ordinary life feel that much extra on the days we need it most. These are a few of our favorites from the past month. We hope they give you some delighted shivers, like they did us!
Got an impractical tool you'd recommend for making magic out of ordinary life? We want to hear about them! Tag us on Instagram!
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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 life run that little bit smoother.
Got a basic piece of equipment, hack or tool that makes ordinary Wednesdays more manageable? We want to hear about them! Tag us on Instagram!
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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 and month six of a global pandemic.
Christie and Lisa-Jo share their own experiences and the stories that are helping them make sense of this hard-to-shake weariness. And do not miss the last ten minutes. That story gave us all chills.
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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 certain, scientific results with real mental health benefits.
It was unplanned and wildly unprecedented for both Lisa-Jo and Christie. Maybe it's a way to help you as you navigate your own limits in these days, looking for ways to alleviate stress. We welcome you to join us!
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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 Christie this week as they share what's getting them through the groundhog days of this season. And follow them on Instagram where they share the journey in real time: @lisajobaker @christiepurifoy
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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 the days you feel like you're literally losing your mind.
This is parenting in a pandemic.
We talk about WHY it is so, so hard. And how to begin processing the experience.
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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 breath in these difficult days. Come walk awhile with us as we walk you out into some big, wide open spaces laced through with generations of memories that will help you breathe in and out again.
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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 since Lisa-Jo's book, The Middle Matters, launched into the world. We're celebrating by sharing a reading from the book. Think of it like a love letter to your waist. And a reminder of how to show it grace.
Get comfy, here we go.
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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 bonus podcast episode that folks were able to download as a standalone paid episode. This summer, we thought it would be fun to finally release this nearly two hour binge listen to our whole audience.
Lisa-Jo and Christie share their Top 10 Christmas reads that include novels, cook books, mysteries, picture books for the kids, faith reads, fiction, and poetry.
What better time than the heat of summer to curl up with a book that reminds us of cold, crisp winters and the promise of new beginnings?
This is a deep dive into our favorite Christmas-themed books in an episode that includes read-alouds from our favorite passages and the reasons why we think these books will be good company in this season!
Here's your list of all 20 books featured in this bonus episode for you to take to the library this season!
Click here to download the full book list.
Lisa-Jo's Top Ten
- The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
- Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Read
- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
- The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass (aged 37 3/4) by Adrian Plass
- A Circle Of Quiet by Madeleine L'Engle
- It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Waterson
- Betty Crocker
- The Jubilee Poems by John Blase
- Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Break In by Dick Francis
Christie's Top Ten
- Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
- Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
- Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, various authors
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Christmas in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
- The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston
- What the Land Already Knows: Winter's Sacred Days by Phyllis Tickle
- The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
- Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation by Luci Shaw
- The Irrational Season by Madeleine L'Engle
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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 our teachers around a Table, enjoying the virtual equivalent of good food and good conversation.
For less than the cost of a class or conference, your monthly Table fee gives you access to a carefully prepared banquet, an eight- and four-week menu of guided inspiration and discovery.
You are invited to feast by choosing a Season Pass to our Virtual Learning Tables.
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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?
Do you wish the online world nurtured more goodness, truth, and beauty?
Would you like to grow and connect online in ways that transform and enrich your real, everyday life?
Then we’d love to invite you to the Black Barn Online!
There is no membership fee for joining in and helping to cultivate this community as we respond to guided conversations around creativity and faith.
The Black Barn Online Open House is happening right now: July 1-13! Come and check it out! CLICK HERE NOW: www.blackbarnonline.com
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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 -- being willing to see the world through their story. Will you come take a walk with us today?
Christie and Lisa-Jo explore some of their own memories of growing up on the one hand near Galveston Texas and the other, in Pretoria, South Africa. And now both on the fringes of Washington DC. Stories can be unpredictable and we thank you for being willing to let us awkwardly and imperfectly tell the stories that are shaping our own families as we listen to the stories of black lives and experiences in order to keep becoming better allies.
These are not political stories. These are personal stories.
Tender. Necessary. Imperfect.
We're grateful to share them with you.
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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 each year.
You're invited to share your own three summer lovin' favorites -- ping Christie @christiepurifoy and Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker on Instagram.
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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 friendship like almost nothing else.
That's what we're doing today. To make room to learn from the voices and stories of our black brothers and sisters, this week we're sharing stories from black authors and poets. From love stories about braiding a daughter's hair to frank confessions about what it feels like to both resent and love being a gardener. We hope you lean in with us this week as we listen and learn from these voices who offer a needed perspective on ordinary life.
These are the storytellers today:
Patrice Gopo, All the Colors We Will See
Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book)
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime
Michelle Obama, Becoming
Elizabeth Alexander, Apollo and Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
Find their books at our Podcast store here or your local library.
Read Elizabeth Alexander's poetry over here
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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 for weary souls to exhale here at the end of our Home Series together.
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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 backyard might just be the best room of all!
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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, get ready to laugh and happy sigh. Here's the latest in our series of stories from home. (We recommend listening in the bathtub while snacking on something yummy :)
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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 amazing how much love and what wild stories can live in the droopy pillows of a family sofa.
We hope today offers a fresh lungful of life before quarantine and love in the season of so much time spent together in our living rooms.
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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 middle of your ordinary rhythms.
While this conversation was recorded before this strange season of global extended stay at home, we think it's so timely to remember how to rest in the middle of our now sometimes stressed homes.
Join us this week as we unpack these7, quirky ways to rest right where you already are:
- Quiet in the car
- Procrastinate
- Load the dishwasher
- Stop blaming yourself for the busyness
- PJs = no phone zone
- Let go of the need to control
- Bible on tape
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 telling stories from our favorite rooms in the house. We hope this series offers you new ways to see your space, and a fresh appreciation for all the magic that lives within your ordinary walls. No matter how tired, frazzled or frustrated you might feel today, take the next half hour to exhale as we remind you how awesome your home and all its stories really are.
Today we are telling stories from the kitchen.
Be sure and take a photo of YOUR kitchen and share it on social media with the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast You can also tag us both on Instagram! @lisajobaker@christiepurifoy
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 and others we love.
This is The Home Series. For the next few weeks we'll be telling stories from our favorite rooms in the house. We hope this series offers you new ways to see your space, and a fresh appreciation for all the magic that lives within your ordinary walls. No matter how tired, frazzled or frustrated you might feel today, take the next half hour to exhale as we remind you how awesome your home and all its stories really are.
Today we are telling stories from the dining room.
Be sure and take a photo of YOUR dining room and share it on social media with the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast You can tag us both on Instagram! @lisajobaker @christiepurifoy
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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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 heroes of Corona.
Travel with us this Holy Week as we walk in the footsteps of men and women who have lived the tension of mortal courage and miracles in these extraordinary times.
"No matter how flawed or frightened we feel, when we let the courage of faith transform us THE WHOLE world can be transformed too."
"The stubborn hope in something beyond this world is what makes saints brave and good."
--Stories of the Saints by Carey Wallace
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 this week. And boy did we need them.
Thank you for doing what community does -- carrying each other. This week your stories helped carry Christie and Lisa-Jo. From virtual birthday parties to wild grocery trips to an unexpected bus rescue in Senegal.
We hope they encourage and offer hope to everyone who hears them this week.
AND, we have something extra hopeful to offer you this week: April subscribers to our digital care package Paper&String will be able to give a free 3-month gift subscription to a friend! We want to help you stay connected during this time of social distancing. Learn more here.
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, how are you all doing, eh?
In these unpredictable times we wanted to bring you a slice of laughter. Today's episode includes the ridiculous in all shapes and sizes that this week has brought us.
Next week we plan to share YOUR stories. Yup! Want us to feature what laughter and/or tears have looked like for you and your family in this season of love and life in the time of the Corona virus? Shoot us an email: outoftheordinarypodcast@gmail.com
We will feature as many stories as possible on next week's episode.
Until then, here are the two movies we highly recommend for lightening the mood in any household right now:
On Hulu: The Biggest Little Farm
On Netflix: The Kindness Diaries
Hope to hear from MANY of you! Send us your stories of life and laughter right now: outoftheordinarypodcast@gmail.com
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 favorite thing in the world. It's like a parable for these times we're living through. Listen to her share about how she has responded.
May we all respond to the headlines, our fears, and our neighbors in the same way.
Reading from this episode: Jeremiah 42:1-22
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 in before we realized we should be recording. So you're hearing us honestly process how failure has crippled us and the unexpected antidote we stumbled onto in this conversation.
It might be one of the most important conversations we've recorded.
Helpful links:
Shannan Writes
Philippians 1: 21
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 our series of Easter Conversations.
And yes, we talk about our LEAST FAVORITE Bible Verse.
It's for all of us who wonder what it means in the middle of our ordinary, kids-with-stomach-bugs lives to hear the voice of God.
Because, like our kids, we have wondered if that was God or just some bad tacos from the night before.
It's also the difference between listening to God vs. listening to outcomes. And how we can run into trouble when we equate outcomes with whether or not we heard clearly from God.
Yup, we question ourselves, our hearing and our lives according to our accomplishment lists. Maybe that's not the best checklist.
Here's what we're learning to do instead.
Join us. And if this conversation resonated we'd love if you'd take 2 minutes and leave a review.
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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 as we work our way toward Lent.
Part 1: Your Childhood Home
Part 2: When Your Limits Frustrate You
Christie experiences Lent as a time to cultivate emptiness.
Lisa-Jo experiences Lent as a time to stop being shamed by our brokenness.
If you've ever felt like your story has a big crack running through it, you're not alone. Today's conversation will be good company.
Listen to Come Close Now by Christa Wells.
We share these stories to invite you deeper into your own story.
If today's episode resonated with you, please tell a friend about it, yes?
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 run into in our lives and our homes and what they say about us and about God.
This is the second in a series of vulnerable stories as we work our way toward Lent. We invite you to join us as we unpack the frustration of the limits we experience in our homes and our lives.
Christie also shares the backstory of how she picked the new kitchen floor for Maplehurst; Lisa-Jo confesses some childhood ice cream scandals.
Books referred to in this episode:
Placemaker
The Art of Gathering
We share these stories to invite you deeper into your own story.
If today's episode resonated with you, please tell a friend about it, yes?
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 toward Lent. We invite you to join us and remember your own childhood home.
We invite you to do the brave work of, "revealing your mind at work. There is no nakedness like that nakedness." Pat Schneider, Writing Alone and With Others.
That is why we share these stories. To invite you deeper into your own story.
If today's episode resonated with you, please tell a friend about it, yes?
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 doors to a new community platform - the virtual Black Barn -- a way for every single listener to come and join us in person!
Click here now to learn more and join.
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For one week only: Feb 1-7, 2020 each subscription to Paper&String includes a membership to The Black Barn Collective!
For $5.99/a month you get Paper&String and free access to our new community platform -- the Virtual Black Barn.
No matter where you live, no matter how many miles between the front door of the Maplehurst Black Barn and your own front door, you can come in.
You can join the Black Barn Collective.
This is the verse that inspired the Black Barn Collective that we talk about today: Joel 3:18 A fountain will flow out of the Lord's house.
Meet you inside!
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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 story of how and why that happened.
Be the first to get Paper & String!-- a care package curated for our listeners. Click herenow. Or go to: outoftheordinarypodcast.com/ps
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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 ear candy and a new collection of tasty words to enjoy rolling around your conversations this week.
Book mentioned in this episode: The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane
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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 we the gardeners sowing seed, or are we the soil in which our Maker plants seed? If we ARE the soil, how do we prepare ourselves to receive and nurture the RIGHT seeds?
These are the questions Lisa-Jo and Christie explore as they trade stories in the second half of a two-part New Year's conversation.
Book mentioned in this episode: The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
Scripture mentioned in this episode: Luke 8: 4-15
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Christie is saying "yes" this year to an exciting new project: The Black Barn Garden Club, an online community for aspiring gardeners who long to feel more rooted in their souls and their homes. Sign up here to learn more.
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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 clear.
Ordinary life is a gift offered to each one of us, but did you know that ordinary life isn't actually inevitable? That ordinary life--with all of its wonder and beauty--is actually soil to be tended?
One of the most important ways we're tending the ground of our lives this year is by saying "No." We invite you to listen, and we invite you to join us this year in growing smaller in order to gain so much.
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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 hard Christmas stories on the way to this sacred holy and completely unexpected night.
(You can listen to Part 1 and Part 2 in Episodes 55 and 56).
Join Christie and Lisa-Jo as they learn that Christmas isn't some delicate ornament easily shattered by our own disappointed expectations, irritations and temper tantrums. Instead it's as solid as the earth beneath our feet.
This is not a fragile time of year. Much to their surprise, they unpack what makes Christmas so rock solid dependable.
This week Lisa-Jo and Christie conclude their storytelling journey as they reveal the light that glimmers even in some of their darker memories. It is a light that shines in its fullness on these two memorable holy nights.
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Click here for our Bonus Episode: Top 10 Christmas Reads!
This is a deep dive into our favorite Christmas-themed books in an episode that includes:
- Novels, cook books, mysteries, picture books for the kids, faith reads, fiction, soul care, and poetry.
- We read excerpts from our favorite passages and explain why we love them so much
- We share the reasons we think these books will be good company in this season.
- Christie is shocked by one of Lisa-Jo's choices!
- Lisa-Jo laughs so hard during one of her readings she snorts. Apologies in advance!
- Yes we have a few international authors as well.
- Plus, there's a printable list of all 20 books featured for you to take to the library this season!
Click here to get the Christmas Bonus Episode.
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 stories because we know this time of year isn't just about the shiny and the special. It's about a God who comes to meet us in the middle of broken gifts and disappointed expectations.
Join Christie and Lisa-Jo as they remember Christmases that some might have wanted to rescue them OUT OF. And instead, learn with them about what it looks like to be rescued INTO your own story.
These are stories about hard holidays, but they are only the first step in a three-part journey Christie and Lisa-Jo take together on the podcast this December.
Why revisit the hard? Why return in conversation to those darker holiday moments? Because this year's Christmas, and all our Christmases to come, are shaped by Christmas past. And the past has much to teach us.
Join Christie and Lisa-Jo on this storytelling journey as they begin to see the light that glimmers even in some of their darker memories. It is a light that will grow and grow until it shines in its fullness on two memorable holy nights.
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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 only the first step in a three-part journey Christie and Lisa-Jo take together on the podcast this December.
Why revisit the hard? Why return in conversation to those darker holiday moments? Because this year's Christmas, and all our Christmases to come, are shaped by Christmas past. And the past has much to teach us.
Join Christie and Lisa-Jo on this storytelling journey as they begin to see the light that glimmers even in some of their darker memories. It is a light that will grow and grow until it shines in its fullness on two memorable holy nights.
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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 Christmas season.
Does the approach of Christmas feel a little less joyful than you wish it would? Are you already tired? Already feeling inadequate to the demands of the season?
Then this episode is for you.
We can't tell you exactly what you should or shouldn't do this season. We have no three-step plan for success to offer. But we have our stories. We have our own questions. And we have our faith in the God who is with us no matter how empty or sad or afraid we might feel.
We invite you to listen. We invite you to respond. What will you NOT be doing this Christmas in order to receive more this Christmas?
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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 twists in our teenage memories.
This is how people are very often very different than what we expect them to be. And how two unlikely guardian angels imprinted on the teenage stories of Lisa-Jo and Christie in ways that are just as vivid today as when they were seventeen.
And how that affects their parenting today.
We hope today you'll pause for a minute and look around your ordinary life for the extraordinary angels hiding in your plot twists.
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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 sometimes the very places where beauty grows in totally unexpected ways.
Places that feel too deep to even talk about can be where we find fresh water and new life. We all carry stories in our bones, and your stories, like ours help, "close the wound of loneliness and may participate in healing the broken world." (Pat Schneider).
Thank you for sitting in our stories with us. We are honored to do the same with you as you look into your own dark wells this week.
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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 Coke Zero to hot, milky tea and homemade soup, they've learned that it isn't only athletes who need to be carefully nourished.
And one of the great pleasures of ordinary life is ordinary, daily food.
Of course, feeding ourselves and others can also feel like a chore, and that's what this conversation is all about: why we eat what we eat and how to find more joy in the midst of it all. From Lisa-Jo's memory of a first kiss to Christie's never-forgotten chocolate pudding, you won't want to miss these stories.
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The news story that sparked this whole conversation.
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This is a story about Not Enough.
Not having enough.
Not being enough.
Lisa-Jo and Christie speak honestly about their own personal empty jars (that never do run out of oil). They describe the small plates of loaves and fishes served to them by others (that satisfy like nothing else).
Because MIRACLES are one of their favorite ordinary things.
That's right, with eyes to see, they are learning that extraordinary miracles are woven into the fabric of our daily lives. When we offer our seemingly empty jars, when we serve up our not-enough food, something miraculous happens: our Not Enough is multiplied.
We hope these stories give you new eyes to see the abundant life that is already yours.
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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't it easier to do what we feel made to do?
Why can it be so hard or so exhausting or so scary?
Lisa-Jo and Christie honestly share some of their behind the scenes stories of the fears they battle any time they accept an invitation from the Lord to do something for Him and His Kingdom. They try to tell the truth about how daunting it can be to show up and do what God asks us to do.
These are the shadow gifts -- that come hand in hand with a calling on your life.
Here's how to sit down at the table in the presence of your enemies and accept Christ's invitation anyway.
Listener Resources:
The new book Women of Courage: A Forty-Day Devotionalis BOGO on Dayspring.com (plus get a free pack of (in)courage greeting cards!) and Lifeway.com
The new Autumn edition of The Cultivating Project is a (free!) visual feast of the Good, True, and Beautiful.
Here's the link to Episode 29 that we mention: "Our Easy Recipe for Hospitality"
Psalm 23 is where the title for today's podcast comes from.
Here's the link to Episode 46, "Live from the Maplehurst Black Barn," an example of good, fun, communal placemaking that we touch on today.
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Have you subscribed to the podcast and left a review yet? Click here to leave a review on iTunes (just scroll down past the episodes to find the option to leave a review). Thank you -- we read and appreciate every one of them.
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.
This is a conversation about one of our favorite ordinary things: television!
Lisa-Jo and Christie see the world through STORY lenses. Join them as they talk about how and why they watch tv and film, on their own and with their families.
As you tune in today, we'd love if you would leave a review and share a bit of YOUR story. We love picturing who is listening. And every week we feature some of our favorite reviews at the end of each episode.
Click here to leave a review on iTunes (just scroll down past the episodes to find the option to leave a review).
Listener Resources:
The new book Women of Courage: A Forty-Day Devotionalis BOGO on Dayspring.com (plus get a free pack of (in)courage greeting cards!) and Lifeway.com
The new Autumn edition of The Cultivating Project is a (free!) visual feast of the Good, True, and Beautiful.
"Can We Talk About Christians and Game of Thrones?" by Erin Moon
Some of the shows mentioned in today's conversation: Foyle's War, Unbelievable, Sealteam, Black Hawk Down, Studio 60, Psych, The Office, The Durrells in Corfu, Bear Gryll's Running Wild, Bluff City Law, Murder on the Orient Express
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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 and Lisa-Jo sit down at Maplehurst again to unpack some of their most ordinary stories together, we hope, as always, that you will find yourselves in them too.
This is the story of trying to find out where we are.
On a map, in life, and most importantly in the only story that matters.
We share where we've been this past summer and where we're headed this fall.
As you tune in today, we'd love if you would leave a review and share a bit of YOUR story. We love picturing who is listening. And every week we feature some of our favorite reviews at the end of each episode.
Click here to leave a review on iTunes (just scroll down past the episodes to find the option to leave a review).
Listener Resources:
Come Close Now by Christa Wells
Winner of the Out of the Ordinary Podcast library: Kayla
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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 October 2nd on social media (anyway you like, screenshot, photo, FB update, Instagram pic, story, get as creative as you like!) and tag us @lisajobaker @christiepurifoy and use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast you'll be entered to win an entire Out of the Ordinary Podcast mini library, which includes SIGNED copies of:
Christie's books:
Roots and Sky
Placemaker
Lisa-Jo's books:
Surprised by Motherhood
Never Unfriended
The Middle Matters
We Saved You a Seat (Bible Study leaders kit; includes 7 session DVD)
We'll announce the winner during the first episode of season 2!
We can't wait!
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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 one. But slowly, week by week, as we planted the small seeds of the Out of the Ordinary podcast a dream began to grow: could we invite a few of our listeners to join us at Maplehurst? Could we record one of our storytelling conversations in the context of a community?
And friends, you said “yes.” You said yes faster than we could have imagined and all 50 tickets disappeared on the first day. (for which we are so grateful and which was a confirmation to us, to keep saying yes to more live gatherings).
And the joyful sound of your “yes” is this episode. It’s a little louder than our typical style. It has a little more energy. But this is the sound of our gratitude and our awe.
And the sound of 50 people listening in to our live conversation. And then a live Q&A.
The barn felt like holy ground and a holy gathering that practically crackled in the place. We think it’s a fitting crescendo for this first year of the Out of the Ordinary podcast.
COME AND SEE all the photos from our first live event -- click here.
Listener invitation: We'd love if you told us how the Podcast has impacted you this year. It's so meaningful to hear from our listeners. As we discovered when we gathered with you in person. If you weren't there, won't you take a moment and tag us on Instagram to let us know what the Podcast has meant to you in its first year. Here's to preparing for our second year together!
Listener Resources:
Back Roads to Belonging by Kristen Strong.
Illustrated Faith art supplies by DaySpring.com
End of Season One: We’ll be taking the next few weeks to rest and receive the ordinary gifts of summer. But we’ll be back this fall with more stories, more conversations, and, yes, more invitations.
Photos: @kellimcampbell
Art wall: @amy.m.hinman
Barn Decor: @kellybeckleyshank
Flowers: @meghanplants
Chief administrative guru: @elrenaevans
Co-hosted by: @christiepurifoy @lisajobaker @drpurifoy @maplehurstblackbarn
This is the story about trusting God with our kids
I've heard Christie tell this story before. So have you.
As part of practicing rest this summer, Christie and Lisa-Jo each chose their favorite episode from the past year to re-share. This is the one Lisa-Jo chose. Because it's the story she thinks about more than any of the others they've shared.
This is the story of an afternoon in Florida when Christie watched her son have a life threatening allergic reaction and it was the one time she didn't have an epi pen with her.
This story is brutal and honest and we know that many listeners have had similar experiences. Some that didn't have the same ending as this one.
This is a painful conversation about trusting God with our kids, and others we love. The people we want most to be safe in the world.
But what if God wants to give them something better, something more, than safety?
Christie tells the story of the terrible mistake that almost cost her young son's life, leading to a conversation filled with hard questions and trustworthy promises. If you worry about what next week or next month might bring to those you love most in the world, this episode is for you.
Listener invitation: We'd love if you shared this episode on Instagram. Tag us @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy so that others might find courage in this story too.
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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, The Middle Matters, which is on sale everywhere today!
How she ended up on her own book cover, what people said when she decided to write about her muffin top, and how she turned a collection of stories about completely ordinary life into something every woman (even those like Christie who don't share some of the same sports-parenting narrative) could relate to.
Did Lisa-Jo's book show up in your house today too? Won't you take a selfie with the book and share it on Instagram and tell @lisajobaker what your favorite story was.
You can hear what other women have said their favorite stories were over here.
This book is a new way to SEE the day.
Click here to pick up a copy today. It's the perfect way to end your summer and look ahead with fresh eyes!
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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, we rush on by determined to get to the "good stuff."
But Lisa-Jo has a brand new book coming out in LESS THAN ONE WEEK (!!), and it is a joyous standing ovation for life's many messy middles.
This week on the Out of the Ordinary podcast, we are giving our listeners a special gift: a chance to hear a few favorite essays from The Middle Matters in Lisa-Jo's own voice.
What kind of middle are you living today? Is there some treasure hidden in the midst of it? We'd love to hear more! Just share a photo on instagram and tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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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 incredible stories.
This conversation was inspired by Lisa-Jo's most personal and vulnerable Instagram post ever. Her tear-streaked face moved many of you to respond, but this week not only are we sharing the story behind the image, we are marveling at how exactly Lisa-Jo's family story mirrors one of Christie's own.
This is a conversation about names, the stories they tell, and an author God who ends every great story in exactly the same way.
Because God's stories don't conclude with the familiar words the end. Instead, we believe they always lead us toward these two beautiful words:
New Life.
This week on the Out of the Ordinary podcast, we are telling stories of how old sorrows grew new life.
Listener invitation: Do you know a name that is also a story? We'd love to hear more! Just share a photo on instagram and tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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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 Out of the Ordinary podcast, we believe that rest is not only a necessary part of ordinary life, it's one of the greatest gifts of ordinary life.
We are determined to rest by example, and that's what this week's episode is all about!
This week on the podcast, Christie and Lisa-Jo are revisiting Christie's favorite podcast episode to-date, and we are doing it in order to rest well. Tune in to learn why we value rest, how we are practicing rest as busy podcasters, and why it's important to look back and remember rather than always rushing on to the next, new thing.
Listener invitation: Do you have a favorite episode from the podcast? We'd love to know! Just share a photo on instagram and tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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This is a story about Martha Stewart's magazine. And how Christie was disappointed by the gardening issue. Until this happened.
Christie did not used to be a gardener.
Lisa-Jo has no idea what Dahlias are.
They both have strong feelings about Martha Stewart.
And by the end of the story Lisa-Jo can't believe what either Martha or Christie did.
Listener invitation: Are you a gardener? Even if you're just a beginner won't you tag us on Instagram and share a photo of YOUR garden with us? Just share a photo and tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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VISIT CHRISTIE'S GARDEN: You can see all the beautiful flowers in Christie's garden by following her gardening account on Instagram @maplehurstgardens -- Just click here.
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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. These are the foods and memories that have shaped our summers for decades.
We hope listening leaves you hungry. And also, makes you remember. The tastes of your favorite summers and the memories that you can bite into when you close your eyes and picture your plate.
Listener invitation: Won't you tag us on Instagram and share YOUR favorite summer food memory with us? Just share a photo and tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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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 question about reading and writing. He was pointed. He had opinions. He was her first critic.
We've come a long way since then. And gathered many, many more reviews. And we've gotten better at receiving them. And learned a lot about leaving them.
This is the story of what we have learned -- about reading as much as about writing. And how it's changed the way we think about reviews.
This is a story for anyone who loves books as much as we do. Because to love books is to love authors and learn how to respond to their art with the reviews that we leave. And yes, we read aloud one of our favorite reviews -- not because of how it agrees with us. But because of how it kind of doesn't. And what a great lesson it taught us as readers and reviewers ourselves.
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FREE GIFT BUNDLE when you preorder Lisa-Jo's new book! Preorder and claim your gifts here: The Middle Matters
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Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy if you share today's episode and we'll always try to re-share your post.
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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 about the hard, daily work of preparation and how good that work can be.
Lisa-Jo and Christie are inviting a small group of readers and listeners to join them for a gathering in celebration of Lisa-Jo's new book The Middle Matters. But first? There is particular work to be done, and this is a conversation about that work.
Whether or not you have a barn of your own, whether or not you host large gatherings, we are all called to the ordinary, daily work of keeping and tending our people and our places. We may dream of glorious gardens, but first we must plant the small seeds and pull the persistent weeds.
Here is your invitation! outoftheordinarypodcast.com/live
We hope to see you at the Black Barn on July 27 when we host the first of what will be regular, intimate gatherings for conversation and community. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 10 am EST on Eventbrite.
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We can't wait for you to read Lisa-Jo's new book, preorder here: The Middle Matters
Listener invitation: What land are you tending today? We'd love to hear your story. Tag us on Instagram: @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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This is the story of a special night out.
Christie and Lisa-Jo share the story of a recent Friday night spent together that was different from anything they've shared before.
Here's a story for anyone longing to have better friendships and to be a better friend. This is a conversation about the poison of comparison and the antidote that is learning how to be someone's "second in command."
- The Bible story Lisa-Jo found so confounding and inspiring? It's1 Samuel 23:15-18
- Invite Lisa-Jo to speak at your event: click here
- We Saved You a Seat Bible Study, as described by Lisa-Jo, includes the whole story of Jonathan, Saul, and David.
- Check out Lisa-Jo's book Never Unfriended
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Listener invitation: Are you someone's special "second in command"? We'd love to hear your friendship story. Tag us on Instagram: @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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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 event at Christie's Black Barn. But, as so often happens in life, our eyes and dreams had been bigger than our stomachs or ability in this case. And it turned out to be a good thing.
Here's a story for anyone disappointed that they weren't able to meet their own goals on time. Who believes that if they're behind, then they've lost the race. Who needs to be reminded that life isn't actually a race, it's a journey with many unexpected detours, most of which we can't actually control.
And how once again, Lisa-Jo and Christie have to re-learn the very first story they shared on the podcast -- that everything big starts very small.
So what was supposed to be a gathering of hundreds turned into a lunch of just ten and that was more than enough.
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We mention our first show: Episode 1: Everything Big Starts Small
We tell you where to sign up here to be the first to know when our podcast live party is rescheduled: over here
We can't wait for you to read Lisa-Jo's new book, preorder here: The Middle Matters
We talk about the episode that describes how we paved paradise to put up a parking lot over here
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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's for anyone who felt disappointed by Mother's Day.
This one's for anyone who got her expectations crushed on Mother's Day or any day really.
This one's for anyone who wonders if anyone notices all the things she does for them.
This one's for the tired, or frustrated, or overlooked mom. We see you. Tune in today to hear us share how we've handled our own disappointing Mother's Day moments -- that really aren't just limited to one day a year.
Because these practical ideas we're sharing today have radically changed how we approach these big expectation moments. And we hope they encourage you today and next year again too!
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The blog post we read: A Love Letter to All the Tired Mamas Everywhere
The Bible Passage Lisa-Jo quoted: Pursue, Overtake, Recover in 1 Samuel 30:8
It's not too late to treat yourself, moms! Check out our very own collection of favorites for moms right here!
Pick up a copy of Surprised by Motherhood over here.
Get the audio version read by Lisa-Jo over here.
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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 make us the women we are.
In this week's conversation, we discover just how much our favorite books reveal about our deepest selves and our relationships. Christie and Lisa-Jo trade memories and titles from The Secret Garden to Lord of the Rings and quite a few you've probably never heard of, let alone read!
Listener invitation: Take a shelfie! Yep, that's a selfie of your bookshelf. We'd LOVE to see your favorite books -- tag us in Instagram @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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The book More For Mom: Living Your Whole and Holy Life by Kristin Funston is out now! Find out all about it and buy your copy right here.
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Some of the books and authors mentioned in this podcast include: The Secret Garden, The Lord of the Rings, Narnia, The Borrowers, Mara: Daughter of the Nile, The Bronze Bow, Nancy Drew, Swallows and Amazons, The Lonely Doll, The Robe, A Time to Keep, Roald Dahl, Rumer Godden, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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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 around the corner, Lisa-Jo invites us to celebrate the ordinary wonder of ordinary motherhood. Spoiler alert: there's really nothing ordinary about it. Or, if there is, it's an astonishing, glorious kind of ordinary.
Whether or not we have children of our own, motherhood weaves its way in and out of our stories in often unexpected ways. This week, let's be transported by Lisa-Jo's story of how motherhood removed the blinders from her eyes and taught her to see the beauty and richness of ordinary life.
Listener invitation: Have you ever felt surprised by motherhood? We'd LOVE to hear from you -- tag us in Instagram @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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The book Finding Beautiful: Discovering Authentic Beauty Around the World, by Rebecca Friedlander is now available! Meet Rebecca and learn more of the fascinating story behind the book here.
Check out our very own Mother's Day store right here!
Pick up a copy of Surprised by Motherhood over here.
Get the audio version read by Lisa-Jo over here.
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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 that have defined their understanding of their favorite neighbor.
Lisa-Jo takes us back to her two years in Kyiv, Ukraine and Christie remembers how her parents lived a legacy of missions from their Texas home.
Listener invitation: Where in the world are you listening from? We'd LOVE to hear from you -- tag us in Instagram @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy
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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 an everyday extravagance.
This week Lisa-Jo and Christie remember the great farmhouse dining room painting saga of their first Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania and how it nearly ruined Christie and her husband's respective backs and arms and attitudes. But how it was more than paint. It was the kind of extravagance we get to give one another on the daily.
Because this is lavish, insanely beautiful grace -- being willing to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, the boring into the extravagant, if only we have eyes to see, and sometimes paint buckets and brushes.
Did Lisa-Jo recognize the transformation? Did her family appreciate the effort taken to create extravagance ahead of their visit? Did Jon and Christie survive the hundreds of hours it took to paint walls and CEILINGS a dark charcoal color? Tune in today to find out as they remember that single room that nearly broke them and all the back-breaking, heart-aching work that went into preparing the way.
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Listener Resources!
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Get glimpses of Christie's charcoal dining room by following her on Instagram here.
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This is a story about an epic Easter egg hunt.
This is a story about easy, life-giving hospitality.
This week on the Out of the Ordinary podcast, Lisa-Jo and Christie describe in uproarious detail their most favorite, shared annual event. Here are all the practical instructions on the easiest way to host the most people at your home.
Easter hasn't happened yet. There's still time! Or maybe just listen and dream for next year. Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, whether you live in a farmhouse or an apartment, hospitality can be fun and easy.
Listener invitation: Do you have a fun, favorite way to practice hospitality? Something that's easy to repeat year after year? Tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy or use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast and tell us all about it!
Listener Resources!
Learn more about Sunny Bunny Easter Eggs here.
Make your own invitation on Canva here.
Order Christie's new book Placemaker here.
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See more of Maplehurst and meet Christie here.
See more of Lisa-Jo's daily, ordinary chaos over here.
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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.
Lisa-Jo tells the story of September 2. It was a day that always reminded her of death, but the year when the weight of that day felt heaviest was the year when September 2 became a day of new life.
Christie tells the story of her own birthday. It, too, was a day that reminded her of death and loss, but one year the story of her birthday was rewritten in the most dramatic way possible.
If you are feeling the weight of a long winter, if you have walked too long in the valley of the shadow of death, we invite you to listen to these powerful reminders that God is making all things new. Especially in the month of April.
(Or perhaps March? You won't want to miss Lisa-Jo's hilarious "oops" in the final minutes of this week's episode.)
Listener invitation: When has new life surprised you? Tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy or use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast and tell us all about it! We love hearing from you.
Listener Resources!
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See more of Maplehurst and meet Christie here.
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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 like family. And how to be that kind of friend.
We don't have short cuts but we do have stories about what got us from 2 strangers meeting after a failed church event to 2 friends who know ALL the details of each others' lives -- the good, the bad, and everything in between.
Listener invitation: Who are your people? Who are the women who have changed your own stories? Tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy or use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast and tell us all about them! We love when friends gush about each other!
Listener Resources!
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Find A Praying Life over here.
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This is a story about a gift I regret giving my children.
If I could take it back I would. Maybe?
But maybe not.
This is a gift I didn't realize I was passing on to them, and I never could have imagined how it would affect them in all the same but also in completely new ways from how it affected me.
It's the painful, beautiful gift that I both regret and cherish at the same time.
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This is a story about a book called Placemaker.
This is a joy-filled conversation between old friends about a brand-new book baby.
That's right. Christie's new book has just been born into the world, and today's episode is not only a celebration, it is an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse you will only find here on the podcast.
Lisa-Jo asks the questions no other interviewer can ask because not only is she a fan of the book, she is a friend to its writer.
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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 Texas drawl?).
Our favorite thing about podcasting is sharing stories with you in our own voices. With Christie's new book landing in reader's hands in less than one week, this audio "sneak peek" is our gift to you.
So, put your feet up, pour the tea (or coffee!), settle in with a blanket or a small child (or both!) and listen to "Norway Maple: Placemaking Around the Table."
Listener invitation: What does placemaking look like around your table? Is it pretty? Is it messy? Maybe it's both? Tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy or use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast and tell us all about it!
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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 answers!
Christie and Lisa-Jo put their feet up, pour the tea, settle in with some chocolate and offer up the realest, un-edited live responses to some of their listeners most common questions.
Listener invitation: This will become a regular feature, so if you've got more questions go ahead and tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy or use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast and send us all your questions!
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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, dark, red, or herbal tea is a hot trend these days. But Lisa-Jo's love for the sweet beverage was born even before she was. And Christie was an early adapter
Between them they invite you to put your feet up, pour a cuppa and listen in as Lisa-Jo shares about her surprising tea discovery while working at the Pretoria News newspaper in South Africa, Christie takes us to Comanche, Texas and memories of iced tea, and between them they invite you into the sacred and completely ordinary rhythm of a day paused by a tray of tea and the people who gather to drink it.
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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 courage and the advice you need to journey to that intimidating place without fear.
Perhaps life has already brought you to that hard place. Perhaps a friend has recently crossed over, and you are wondering how to help her.
Lisa-Jo and Christie have grieved and grieved with others, and they trade stories of what helped and why. Does suffering frighten you? Do you worry you'll say or do the wrong thing? Then this episode will encourage you and equip you.
Because these stories are not really stories about the storm.
They are stories about the lighthouse that welcomes the storm-tossed home.
Listener invitation: We LOVE hearing from listeners. Tell us about a time when someone joined you in your grief. We would love to hear your story. Be sure and tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy and use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
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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 letting go of hurtful labels, this episode is about the importance of claiming a name.
Christie and Lisa-Jo return to their conversation in Episode 11 (When Life Feels Like a Series of Interruptions) to share more about the tragic loss of Christie's brother-in-law three years ago, and the legacy he left for his wife and young children. Lisa-Jo shares more about the loss of her mother, and the legacy of her name "Jo."
What's in a name? This conversation invites you to consider what a good gift a name can be and why it could be time for you to claim yours.
Listener invitation: We LOVE hearing from listeners. Tell us about your name! We would love to hear your story. Be sure and tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy and use the hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
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The newest book from Sarah Beth Marr is out now! And it is a beauty. Too many of us are overwhelmed and underfed. We go, go, go, but our souls are weary. Whispers and Wildflowers invites us to retreat. Within these pages, you can find rest and renewal, peace and contentment.
In this inspiring and practical book, Sarah Beth Marr helps us withdraw from busyness in order to renew and refresh the garden of our own souls.
Get the latest book from our Spotlight Author, Michelle DeRusha, right here!
Gardeners familiar with the technique called "pruning open" know that the secret to healthy plants and trees lies in subtracting rather than adding. With powerful stories and revealing research, Michelle shows us how we begin to flourish as we let go of ourfalse selves and allow God to prune us open.
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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 starting to say that we will not be accepting those labels today, thank you very much.
Today Christie and Lisa-Jo each share stories about labels they had unknowingly accepted about themselves since they were teenagers. As if they were a shameful secret. As if they should apologize for who they are. Do you know what we mean? Do you have a memory, a throwaway sentence, an insult, a note, a casual, cutting observation that you tucked into your soul and allowed to grow up alongside you as if it was always part of you? So that now that lie is grafted into your DNA and you can’t tell the difference between the label and the reality of you?
Today is the day to toss that label in the trash, friends!
Join us as we speak truth and laughter and reality to the labels that have embarrassed us in the past. That we choose instead to name our lives and our homes and ourselves with the words spoken on the sixth day, “very good” (Genesis 1:31).
Listener invitation: We LOVE hearing from listeners. Tell us what YOUR THING is? Go ahead, be as bold as Zoe and own your thing. We'd love to celebrate you today! Be sure and tag Lisa-Jo @lisajobaker and Christie @christiepurifoy so they see it!
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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 being adrift in a sea of mud and construction and the pungent smell of mushroom farms nearby. And what Lisa-Jo's daughter said to change how Christie sees/smells her house.
There is nothing like the power of seeing your home and your life through someone else's eyes. For better or for worse. This week Christie admits her own secret house shame. Lisa-Jo admits all her judgy thoughts about Marie Kondo and they are both surprised by what they learn from this diminutive Japanese woman who is taking us all by storm in her new Netflix show.
Do you have a secret shame about your home? Then this episode is especially for you!
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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 come true.
Christie and Lisa-Jo recorded this episode the week of Christie's twenty-second wedding anniversary. They marveled over the long years of their friendship, and all the dreams-come-true they have witnessed in each other's lives.
But what about those dreams that don't come true?
Can we trust a God who sometimes says NO? Is that God still good?
Lisa-Jo tells the story of her most bitter disappointment and the surprising encounter she had one warm, South African night.
Listener invitation: Come find us on Instagram using the #OutoftheOrdinaryPodcast hashtag and tell us about the "No" that became a different kind of "Yes."
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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. Christie and Lisa-Jo recorded this episode after celebrating one son's eleventh birthday in the Black Barn at Maplehurst. If children make wishes when they blow out birthday candles, the parents who love them make wishes, too. Mostly we want our kids to be safe.
But what if God wants to give them something better, something more, than safety?
Christie tells the story of the terrible mistake that almost cost her young son's life, leading to a conversation filled with hard questions and trustworthy promises. If you worry about what this year might bring to those you love most in the world, this episode is for you.
Listener invitation: Come find us on Instagram using the #OutoftheOrdinaryPodcast hashtag and share your new year's hopes and prayers for your precious loved ones.
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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 neither of us was ready to rush into the New Year just yet.
For all of us who feel like we're back at a start line when we only just crossed the finish of the old year here is an alternative to setting New Year's resolutions.
Join Christie and Lisa-Jo as they spend some time remembering the ancient promises already waiting for us in the New Year. Let go the pressure to have to chart your own course perfectly. Here's permission to believe that spring will come just as surely as those bulbs are buried in the dirt and uncertainty right now.
Listener invitation: Come find us on Instagram using the #OutoftheOrdinaryPodcast hashtag and share your own favorite old promises that you're taking into this New Year.
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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 world on the first Christmas Day.
But is God still in the business of giving good gifts?
Lisa-Jo tells the story of her own Christmas baby. It's a story of how shame and sorrow gave way to peace and joy. It's a story of good gifts freely given, no strings attached.
If you feel discouraged, if God's goodness feels a little hard to grasp, we hope you'll listen and be reminded that something as small and ordinary as a baby can change everything.
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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 to balance it with the work we do that makes gifts and celebrations possible. This week Lisa-Jo and Christie unpack the reality that everything doesn't stop just because it's December. Instead there are still deadlines and work commitments and maybe that's actually OK too. Maybe we don't need to believe the Hallmark premise that everything stops around the holidays in time for hot chocolate and mistletoe. Maybe for so many of us the courage to keep providing for our families in the midst of the meaningful season is itself a good and generous gift.
This week we celebrate the holiday season that has to find a way to fit hand in hand with our ordinary, daily work. And we recognize that different lives have different rhythms of work and rest and there is no one perfect pattern. And we discuss how the work we're doing here on earth will likely bear fruit in the kingdom to come.
So, lean into your own timetable this season and let Christmas unfold slowly, and let your family and friends off the hook and give them permission to be themselves in the way they work and the way they rest too.
Books mentioned this week: Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks Leaf by Niggle by JRR Tolkien Quotidian Mysteries, The: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" by Kathleen Norris
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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 a "get out of Advent free" card if you're a mom of littles or just a weary wanderer like so many of us. And DON'T stress celebrating the season in any way other than works for you and your people.
We each share some of our favorite, most ordinary, most meaningful ways to savor the season we so often rush and stress through. We also remember our very first Christmas at Maplehurst with both our families under one roof.
And we have a special gift for you this season!
Special Free Gift for You: Thanksgiving through Christmas only An Illustrated Guide to the Four Seasons at Maplehurst. Like Book Pages Pulled from a Vintage Treasure. Printed in full color on quality paper, these prints are like illustrations pulled from an old almanac or diary. The separate black and white prints are ideal for adding your own artistic touch in watercolor or pencil.
This illustrated guide, with inspiration for the kitchen, the garden, and the bookshelf, would make a meaningful gift, perhaps with a clipboard for display, bundled with art supplies, or included in a notebook of seasonal inspiration. If you package or display these creatively, I would love to see! Use the hashtag #weareplacemakers and tag me @christiepurifoy on Instagram.
This is a special gift celebrating the upcoming release of Christie's new book: Placemaker. Only available during this gift-giving season. Pre-order your book before December 25 and we'll pop these lovely prints into your email inbox right away!
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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? Well, those are the stories we're telling today. Because life often feels like a series of interruptions stitched together.
But interruptions can be invitations. Invitations to rest, invitations to care, invitations to pay attention. Interruptions can also be serious, heavy disruptions. What then?
Lisa-Jo and Christie talk about the days when nothing goes as planned. Interruptions are always inconvenient, they are sometimes devastating, but they can also be good gifts in disguise.
Does your life feel like a series of interruptions? We welcome your story. Come say hello on Instagram: @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy. Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
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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 handing out gold stars for washing the dishes, or changing the oil in the car, or dealing with that pile of junk mail. No one gives a round of applause when we tackle one more ordinary task on one more ordinary day.
Or maybe someone does?
Lisa-Jo and Christie share stories of invisibility and ask whether our hunger for recognition and approval might actually be a good and necessary thing.
Do you ever feel unseen? We'd love to hear your story. Come say hello on Instagram: @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy . Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
Listener Resources!
A film we discuss: The Wife, starring Glenn Close
A book we love: The Shadow Doctor, by Adrian Plass
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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 risk worth taking. Because what if you're disappointed. What does that say about the God you believed and hoped in? What does that say about you?
They both share their riskiest hope stories today. How they were both deeply disappointed and then what came next.
They'd love to hear what your experiences with hope have been like. Come say hello on Instagram: @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy . Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
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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 about being brave enough to break down what you thought you wanted in order to make room for what you believe you need.
This is about being willing to pull up old dreams in order to make space for new ones. Because growth takes room and always before it looks better it looks much, much worse.
No matter what stage you are en route to new dreams, we hope you'll stop today and join us as we watch Christie's biggest dream be brought down all the way to the ground, white picket fence posts uprooted and nails removed one by one.
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Listener Resources!
The CSB (in)courage Devotional Bible: Real life is messy. This Bible helps you find God in the midst of it.
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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 between taking control of your future and surrendering control.
This is an honest conversation about why the language of goal setting is a struggle for us, and why we both tend to use the word "invitation" instead.
Whether or not you're a natural goal-setter, we hope you'll join the conversation!
Share your invitation story. Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy on Instagram. Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
Listener Resources!
A favorite book we discuss in this episode:
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Get 20% off the new CSB (in)courage devotional Bible PLUS a FREE leather journal (deal only good through October 2018): just click here
This beautiful new Bible invites every woman to find her story within the greatest story ever told--God's story of redemption. It includes:
- 312 devotions from 122 (in)courage community writers
- 10 distinct thematic reading plans
- Stories of courage from 50 women of the Bible
- And so much more!
Get the new book from first-time author Ashley Hales! For anyone searching for Holy in the Suburbs: just click here.
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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 they wanted those cards to say, and exactly what they never wanted to see printed there.
But their job titles along with their professional and personal roles have changed significantly over the years, and navigating those transitions has led them to the same realization: our significance is determined by God alone. No matter what our business cards do or do not say, God names each of us "Beloved."
Join the conversation!
Share a photo of your new business card with us! (you have to listen to understand and play along) Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy on Instagram. Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
Listener Resources! The CSB (in)courage Devotional Bible: Real life is messy. This Bible helps you find God in the midst of it.
All of these beautiful cover options are available online or at your local Lifeway store: click here to learn more.
This beautiful new Bible invites every woman to find her story within the greatest story ever told–God’s story of redemption.
Get the new book from Shawn Smucker, this week's Spotlight Author. The Edge of Over Thereis the sequel to the award-winning The Day the Angels Fell. These lyrical yet adventurous novels are loved by kids and their grownups.
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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 we're not even talking about food.
This is an honest conversation about what we hunger and thirst after. How do we fix our cravings?
This week we dig into the idea that enough might be a life goal worth pursuing. But to do so we need to know when we've reached, enough, in a culture always hungry for more, more, more.
Join the conversation! Share your favorite "this is my enough" moments with us! Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy on Instagram. Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
Listener Resources! Two Books we share stories from in this episode:
C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy book 2: Perelandra
Roald Dahl's book Matilda
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This beautiful new Bible invites every woman to find her story within the greatest story ever told--God's story of redemption. It includes:
- 312 devotions from 122 (in)courage community writers
- 10 distinct thematic reading plans
- Stories of courage from 50 women of the Bible
- And so much more!
Spotlight author! This week our spotlight author is Shelly Miller, who currently lives among the tea shops and winding cobblestones of London. Her book Rhythms of Rest is on sale for 0.99 all of October. For anyone trying to figure out how to make rest realistic instead of miraculous: just click here to get the eBook deal on Shelly's book.
Are you tired of being tired?
Do you struggle with giving yourself permission to rest?
Feel guilty when you aren’t being productive?
Secretly dream about a sick day to lay at home and read all day?
Yeah, Shelly gets that.
If busy has become your recurring answer when people ask, “How are you?” maybe it is time to pause and make rest realistic instead of miraculous.
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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 could think of was the surprising discovery that everything we valued most might easily be described as ordinary, if not even boring on some days.
It was an unexpected person who pointed out to us the obvious name for our show that we'd totally missed. Which in turn inspired us to start looking at these small, seemingly ordinary traditions as landmarks in a family.
Because we believe that ordinary life is inherently more than enough to make a difference at the cellular level of our lives. In a culture that worships bigger, faster, more, here is the story of how we aim to push back and dig deep into the spiritual truths that the Kingdom of God has always been best reflected in a grain of wheat, a mustard seed, a widow’s mite, a small jar of oil, five loaves and two fishes. We want to offer our listeners permission to find value in their everyday lives again.
Join the conversation! Share a quick photo of your own extraordinary -- the ordinary moments of your day that have become their own slice of "extra." Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy on Instagram. Or use our hashtag #outoftheordinarypodcast
Listener Resources! Get 20% off the new CSB (in)courage devotional Bible PLUS a FREE leather journal (deal only good through October 2018): just click here
This beautiful new Bible invites every woman to find her story within the greatest story ever told--God's story of redemption. It includes:
- 312 devotions from 122 (in)courage community writers
- 10 distinct thematic reading plans
- Stories of courage from 50 women of the Bible
- And so much more!
Meet a first time author! This week our spotlight first time author is Patrice Gopo. Christie and Lisa-Jo both read and endorsed her beautiful book, All the Colors We Will See: just click here to check it out.
Here is Lisa-Jo's endorsement of this stunning debut book:
“I read this book straight through in one sitting over several cups of tea. And when I emerged, I found I had been holding my breath the whole time. Patrice let's us see inside the hidden, secret places of her story. Intimate. Painful. Holy. As a white woman who grew up in South Africa, I’m so grateful to Patrice, a black woman who grew up in Alaska, for opening the pages of her life. My story is changed and challenged and enriched because of hers. And I am in her debt.”
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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. Christie takes us from Chicago to Florida to a small town in Pennsylvania that often reeks of mushroom farms and manure where she buried all her broken bits of hope and then watched them grow. She shares the story of the time she opened her home to a small group, bought all the study books, and not one person showed up.
If you're like us then you already know that dreams usually look nothing and also everything like you hoped. There's no straight road between what we dream and the realities we live and along the way all kinds of things we imagined, prayed, and hoped get broken. Let's talk about that today.
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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 have often both been so desperate in our dissatisfaction it took us years to find the antidote. But in this episode we share what that looks like, how to apply it in your own life, and the very best place to take all your longing and dissatisfied dreams. In this episode we share some of the biggest demands we've made of God and how He's answered. It wasn't what we expected.
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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 imagine life without. Welcome to Out of the Ordinary! We're delighted you're joining our conversation. As always it was recorded on the third floor of Christie's old farmhouse, Maplehurst, and today we sat down to unpack the idea that everything big starts small.
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