According to Titus 2, the "generation gap" mentality results in spiritual paralysis for Christian women. My name is Rebekah Dorris, and with my daughter, we'd like to introduce you to some wise women making a difference. Some of them are from Scripture, and some live down the street. Listen along as we bridge the gap between generations, so our daughters and their granddaughters can be wise women building homes that last.
Episodes
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Teaching "I Can Do This" to Our Kids with Terrie Gatto, Part 2
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Teaching Kids to Love to Clean with Terrie Gatto, Part 1
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from Terrie's experience training her children to work:
"If I make it tense, nothing will ever get done."
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Sharing Wisdom When You're Still Young with Jolina Petersheim, Part 2
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
I can’t tell you how many times it happened. Morning after morning, year after year, I crawled out of bed way too late, feeling like a loser and convinced of it as the lateness kept me from productivity.
I’d been reading Jolina Petersheim’s blog for a while when I saw she’d started posting about how she got up early. Guiltily, but hungry to learn, I observed. I tried to imagine all the things I could do if I got up early enough to be productive at 6 in the morning.
Time passed, more babies came, and those dreams of rising with the chickens stayed dreams. Jolina’s example stuck with me, though, and – praise be – now I’ve finally learned it. You can read about that here. (The names are changed to protect the embarrassed. Me.)
What’s so funny is that, in this part 2 of Jolina’s interview, she shares with me how short-lived that “resolution” to get up early really was.
And you know what? I wonder if Jolina felt those blog posts about rising early were in vain.
They weren’t. Not for me.
Those accounts of her ambitious goals that she thought fell flat caught hold in my soul and eventually bore fruit. Even though, to her, they may have felt like a big fail.
Isn’t that cool?!
Who knows what new thing you’ve started, or I’ve started, that was just another flop sparked something lasting in someone on the sidelines?
God uses the weak. The foolish. The ones who feel so unworthy. Probably the biggest thing that keeps Him from using us is when we feel so qualified we’re unthankful He stoops to think on us at all!
Enjoy the podcast!
One note on a section of this episode when I misspoke: I said, “It’s so easy to get separated from that love.” That’s the opposite of the truth. Nothing can separate us from His love.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
"Turn Your Heart Toward Home" by Steve & Annie Chapman. Used with permission.
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Sharing Wisdom When You're Still Young with Jolina Petersheim, Part 1
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
"Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days."
That's what I think about when I consider my old friend Jolina Petersheim. As a young college student, I'd give Jolina rides home from church and pepper her with well-intentioned advice with the air of a sage.
Looking back, I cringe at how I must've come across to this giddy little junior high girl who must've seen me as a major party pooper. I couldn't hold back, though. God had changed my life around her age, and I wanted SO BAD for her to taste and see how good He is.
Time passed, and we both went our different ways as life played out. She was in my wedding, and I heard through the grapevine as she headed off to college and then got married.
When I heard through our shook-up community grapevine that Jolina had not only published a book, but it was a best-seller, all of us were thrilled. For me, who'd always entertained secret crazy dreams like running in the Olympics, writing, and being a radio show host, a spark of "what if I could, too!" was secretly lit.
I began reading her blog, which was far different than it is today. In the following years I observed as this spunky dreamer mellowed into a wise woman who regularly offers insight that shapes my own thinking.
So if you've poured into younger women, praying for them, feeling like your words fall flat, just know that it isn't us that makes people wise.
It's Jesus.
He sometimes allows us to join in the process, and sometimes He removes us and puts others in our place.
He's the One doing the work.
And we will reap. If we don't faint.
"Turn Your Heart Toward Home" by Steve & Annie Chapman. Used with permission.