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Hey, it’s Jodi here! I’m so excited to share with you some of the new parts of my book, “You Got This - A Guide To Living A Full Life In The Midst Of Suffering.” I originally released my book during COVID, and then our house flooded. Our family went through a lot of difficult things, so eventually I decided it was time to share some of the stories, songs, and scripture verses that helped me get through it all. If you or someone you know is going through a difficult time where they feel like they’ve done everything right and life has still gone wrong, this episode is for you. I’m not promising a neat and tidy bow on the end of everything I say, but hopefully a way through to still show up for your life when everything falls apart. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy this episode based off of the new You Got This 2023 Edition.
Listen to HUMAN here: https://loveandtheoutcome.lnk.to/Human
Buy You Got This book: https://www.iamjodiking.shop
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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It’s been a minute since we released a podcast, but we have a new song out called HUMAN, and we wanted to share how it came to be. God is good, life is hard. It’s not one or the other. The fact that two things can be true at the same time has held us together over the past few years. This song encompasses the story of our house flood, how we survived and made it through to the other side. Although it may sound like a depressing episode, we promise you will feel seen love and uplifted! Hope you enjoy this conversation.
Listen to HUMAN here:
https://loveandtheoutcome.lnk.to/Human
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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Really excited to share my conversation with Leslie Trovato with you, friends! She is a writer and a mama, loved thru divorce & breast cancer & COVID over the past two years, so she has a lot of content! We chatted about how to let go of expectations around the holidays, and what Emmanuel, God with us, actually means. Hope you enjoy it, let us know!
Love,
Jodi, Chris, Milo & Ziggy
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
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Thanks for sending in your questions for Dr. Russell Moore! They were SO good that we decided to dedicate an entire episode to his answers! Hope you enjoy part 2 of our conversation with @russellmoore
Love,
Jodi, Chris, Milo & Ziggy
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
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Have you ever found yourself in a conversation these days wondering, “am I crazy?” Or, “how do I have conversations with friends & family with whom I disagree politically?” We asked Dr. Russell Moore these questions as well as what it means to be an evangelical Christian in a post-truth world. Will civility ever be restored? Dr. Moore is the former head of Ethics and Religion for the Southern Baptist Convention (and he tells us why he left), and is now a public theologian for Christianity Today. We had to break up the conversation into two parts because it was all so good that we couldn’t cut it down to a one hour episode. We don’t come from the same place or see all things the same way, which was what made this conversation so special. Hope you enjoy Part 1 of our conversation with @russellmoore
Love,
Jodi, Chris, Milo & Ziggy
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
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The pandemic has taken alot from all of us. One thing we are just barely recovering is our ability to see possibility, and to dream again. Dan Bremnes - musician, family man, risk-taker, dreamer - reminds us that we need to listen to our crazy ideas because they just might unlock our next step to a life lived, not just tolerated. Dan shares the story behind his new single “Run Away With Me,” https://open.spotify.com/track/1l6gBfmaoPBcRhuZbslIpb?si=kQlrSfPuRb2wJngAhniU5Q which is a real-life example of what can happen we we go after the crazy ideas in our head that we generally disregard as too “out there.” Hint - it involves a deserted island and an email :)
And it’s a great song:)
We hope this episode inspires you to walk towards your next step!
Love,
Jodi, Chris, Milo & Ziggy
PS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
PPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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Welcome back to the podcast! We took a break this summer after our house flooded, thinking we’d start it back up when we were back in, but alas we are still waiting…
The good news is we have a lot to share from this displaced transition season, so we thought we’d embrace it with “Conversations in the Car with Chris and Jodi.” A little series within the podcast where we literally press record and let you into our chats on the road, and edit nothing (sorry for the road noise)! Jodi and I both just read “The Bible Tells Me So” by Peter Enns, and it’s helped us feel ok with our questions about the Bible. Whether it be genocide in the Old Testament, and wrestling with the commandment, “thou shalt not kill,” while God seems to order the killing of women & children & entire people groups, or all the Levitical laws that don’t seem to apply anymore, there’s a lot that makes us uncomfortable. It hit us while we were reading Bible stories to our kids, that there is a lot that is too R-rated for them to handle. It left us with a lot of questions, and in case you are in the same boat, we wanted to give you permission to journey with us. This episode provides more process and questions than answers, but there will be follow up episodes where we dig deeper into these questions. Wanted to be honest about the where we’re at, so come along for the ride!
Here’s a link to Peter’s store if you’d like to check it out!
https://peteenns.com/store/
Sending love,
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
PS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
PPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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We are so excited for you to join our conversation on anxiety with the one and only Sissy Goff! She is an expert child and adolescent counselor at Daystar Ministries here in Nashville, as well as an author and equipper. She has helped our family so much amidst our flood trauma during COVID. Here’s the thing - everything she says doesn’t just work for kids, but also applies to adults! So whether you’re an adult, parent, or teen, this episode on how to stop the hamster wheel of fear and anxiety is for you. We can find Jesus’ peace in the midst of trauma, and we hope this episode gives you the tools to find it! You can find her here @sissygoff @raisingboysandgirls and listen to her podcast here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raising-boys-girls/id1366344369
Sending love,
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
PS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
PPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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I’m not sure about you, but wilderness seasons are never something I pray for. It’s just not that much fun being in a season where you lack clarity & purpose, and when you don’t know what’s next. But here’s the good news: Jesus and John the Baptist wandered in the wilderness, so it can’t be all bad! There has to be a deeper purpose to it, and a way to wander well even on our worst days. This realization has helped me so much in a season full of “I don’t know.” Living as wanderers during this flooded-house chapter of life is teaching me a lot, and I wanted to pass along some practical steps that help me show up to my life and keep going even on my worst day. A few of the steps I talk about are: identify what helps you feel put together; tell yourself, “this is hard and that’s ok. I’m normal for finding this hard;” decide who is welcome to wander with you, and lean into God’s surprises and provision. Your worth is not determined by how well your life is going! You are worthy and loved and welcome to be in your wilderness season. Hope this helps you as you wander… P.S. - We wanted to share a quick update about our house. We have felt so supported by all of you and are blown away by your generosity. We’ve decided to elevate our house eight feet and make it flood-proof. This is an expensive endeavor but it will allow us to move back in and sleep at night. The total cost will be approximately $60,000 (including new foundation, elevating, engineer, surveyor, contractor, etc). Any gift is appreciated, we literally couldn’t do this without you. You have been our lifeline. Thanks so much 😆💛🙏🏻 https://www.gofundme.com/f/chris-jodi-flood-relief Sending love, Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!! PPPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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Jasmine Murray is the kind of influencer you want to follow. American Idol top-13 finalist, Miss Mississippi and top 10 Miss America, she’s had to deal with how to be her authentic self while still stepping on stage and trying to impress. Not scared to admit when she can barely get out of bed, or how good it feels to have pushed through a workout she didn’t feel like doing. Honest about her anxiety and depression, as well as her love for fashion, she lives it all with Christ at the center. We had a good ol’ girl chat about all the things! Hope you enjoy this conversation with singer/influencer/powerhouse woman, Jasmine Murray! Follow her @jasminemurrayofficial
P.S. - We wanted to share a quick update about our house. We have felt so supported by all of you and are blown away by your generosity. We’ve decided to elevate our house eight feet and make it flood-proof. This is an expensive endeavor but it will allow us to move back in and sleep at night. The total cost will be approximately $60,000 (including new foundation, elevating, engineer, surveyor, contractor, etc). Any gift is appreciated, we literally couldn’t do this without you. You have been our lifeline. Thanks so much 😆💛🙏🏻
https://www.gofundme.com/f/chris-jodi-flood-relief
Sending love,
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
PPPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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It hit me while we were jumping on the trampoline in the backyard of our broken house, and then out of the blue while I was making pizza in my friends kitchen, missing my own. We don’t like to give ourselves space to grieve. We like it to happen on a certain day in a certain way, so we can control it and look “strong”. But the truth is, the happiest moments are often when the sadness hits out of nowhere. Maybe you’re in a grieving season, and you feel the need to be strong and get through. Giving yourself permission to grieve IS strong.
So I'm giving myself and giving you permission to grieve in your own way, day to day, however it shows up. Like my friend Jenny said to me on the phone, “it takes energy to push it down and it takes energy to feel it, so either way it’s gonna suck! Thanks for your honest words friend. I needed to hear them. Maybe you do too.
P.S. - We wanted to share a quick update about our house. It’s been a hard two weeks of grieving and dealing with big decisions about our house. We have felt so supported by all of you and are blown away by your generosity. We’ve decided to elevate our house eight feet and make it flood proof. This is an expensive endeavor but it will allow us to move back in and sleep at night. The total cost will be approximately $60,000 (including new foundation, elevating, engineer, surveyor, contractor, etc). Any gift is appreciated, we literally couldn’t do this without you. You have been our lifeline. Thanks so much 😆💛🙏🏻
https://www.gofundme.com/f/chris-jodi-flood-relief
Sending love,
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
PPPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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Hi Friends!
For this week’s podcast we wanted to bring you something a little different. We turned a green room conversation with our good friend Pastor Jeremy Louison into a behind-the-scenes podcast! We had the chance to tell our love story, how Love & The Outcome started, how we’ve remained individuals within a marriage where we work together… and a lot more! We hope this episode gives you a glimpse into our story, and also helps to illuminate the path you’re on as well. We are all on a journey, and we’re so glad ours has intersected with yours. Sending love friends, enjoy this week’s “Behind the Scenes” episode!
PS - It’s spring here in Tennessee so we planted a garden and it brought us so much joy! We have no idea what we’re doing but fingers crossed something pops up! Are you a gardener? Send us your gardening tips at [email protected] and we’ll share a few on the next podcast episode!
PPS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
PPPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
Love,
Jodi, Chris, Milo & Ziggy
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We found Rich Villodas and his church, New Life Fellowship, online the Sunday after the Capitol insurrection. We were confused and wrestling with the church’s response or lack thereof, to this evil act. Rich’s sermon that Sunday assured us that there is no way to separate justice and mercy from the gospel, and that becoming a Christian means we have to deal with our stuff, not just pass it off to the Lord and peace out.
Rich’s new book, “The Deeply Formed Life” gives us five transformative values to help us live rooted in these crazy times. “God is not interested in transforming some parts of us and leaving the rest untouched. He is not interested in separating our lives into sacred and not sacred categories, or reducing our faith to a personal decision that merely punches a ticket to heaven.” We’re not sure if we’ve ever read a book that married internal growth and the gospel so well. If this resonates with you, and you’ve been looking for permission to rethink what living a gospel life actually looks like, this podcast episode will both encourage you and rock your world. Get your pens out!
Here’s the link to Rich’ book:
https://www.richvillodas.com/
Thanks for digging in with us, hope you enjoy this episode! If you do, subscribe and share it with a friend :)
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
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Hi friends!
Have you ever felt like your worth is tied to your career and talents? On this week’s podcast episode, Chris & I sat down with the one & only Rebecca St. James! She reminds us that “our worth and value come from who we are, not what we do.” Phew, don’t know about you, but we needed this reminder after not touring for the past year!
We were both a little star-struck sitting down with someone who has won both Grammy AND Dove awards, has ten albums, and too many number 1 songs to count! Rebecca’s concert in Winnipeg was the first ticket Jodi spent her own money on, and her music and career have been a huge inspiration for both of us.
Rebecca shares about being in the spotlight from the age of thirteen, the anxiety & identity issues that come along with that, and how she continues rise above it. Now a wife and mother of three, she opens up about how they decide as a family when to say no, so they can give their yes to what God is calling them to. If you need some honest, encouraging conversation in your ears this week, let this Australian American share her life lessons with you. We know you’re gonna get so much out of this episode!
Be sure to check out Rebecca’s new music at https://heritagemusicgroup.lnk.to/dawnWE
And her new podcast at https://www.accessmore.com/pd/Rebecca-St-James-Friends-and-Family
PS - If you are subscribed to our PATREON you will receive access to all our episodes a week early! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Check out www.patreon.com/loveandtheoutcome
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Hi Friends,
It’s so easy to write people off, isn’t it? When they don’t see things the way we do, vote the way we do, belong to the same group we do… But here’s the thing: it's in the sharing of our stories, leaning in to listen and learn, NOT winning someone over to our side, that we grow! When we posted about the insurrection at the Capitol and the inauguration, we watched as our social media number plummeted. All of a sudden people assumed so much about who we are and what we believe. At first we wondered if we did something wrong… but it led to beautiful, complicated conversations that we would never have had otherwise!
So this week’s podcast episode asks & attempts to answer this question: how do we not care what people think, but still care about people? Wow - that’s tough, isn’t it? To show up and share your perspective in love, AND leave space for others to do the same is not easy, but it’s necessary. We are equal parts nervous & excited about being more transparent, and engaging in vulnerable conversations as we move into 2021. We want to let you in to our questions & the things we’re working through, and we trust that if you’re here on the journey with us, you want to join in the conversation and do the same! Our prayer is that even in conflict, we could be loving towards each other. If we make our point but lose the plot of loving God & people, we’ve lost everything. We love you and we’re so glad you’re here!
PS - we are launching a PATREON! Never heard of it? It's the ultimate L&TO insiders’ subscription, a chance to get unreleased songs, conversations, and devotionals delivered to you personally every month! We will even do a Worship Wednesday exclusive just for Patreon members and pray for you all individually. We are excited about going deeper with you, and we hope you’ll join us! Patreon launches Feb. 1st! Stay tuned for more info :)
PPS - if you’ve been looking for a way to participate in being light in the world during this COVID season, check out www.lovehealinghugs.com and sponsor a life-changing surgery for a child who desperately needs one! For one dollar a day for a year, you can send a Healing Hug to a little one whose family can’t afford to pay for the surgery. As God continues to provide for you, why not help provide for someone less fortunate than yourself. Love you all, thanks for being so generous!!
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
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We had a 2021 “planning meeting” today and it was weird! How do you plan during a pandemic when your industry is shut down? Maybe you’re not facing the same challenges that we are as touring musicians who can’t tour, but I’m sure you’re feeling this tension in your life, too. The inability to put dates on a calendar, or see our families…maybe you’ve given up on dreaming?
This week’s podcast is all about dreaming even when you can’t plan or see what’s ahead; how to not let last year’s disappointments steal your anticipation for what God has for you in 2021.
We pray that these little tips are transformational in your life, and the way you approach this year.
And if you’re looking for a way to give (and get a tax receipt) this year, head to www.lovehealinghugs.comand pay for a child living in poverty to have a life changing surgery this year. $360 dollars ($1 a day) or $30 a month will sponsor a surgery for a little one who can’t afford it. Send a healing hug this year!
Love to you friends, keep dreaming!
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
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Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
Our prayer this Christmas season has been, “God, help me to let go of what I think Christmas is supposed to be, and embrace what it is.” We don’t want to miss all that God has here and now, because we keep looking back and wishing for the old days. But this is easier said than done isn’t it? Especially if you’re spending this Christmas alone, far from family, sick, stressed and depressed.
This week’s podcast episode is a short, ten minute devotional based on Matthew 2:10 - “When they saw the star, they rejoiced with great delight!” We all need to be guided this Christmas. We all need God’s light to brighten the dark places of our lives. We all need the clarity & peace that comes from following the One who is lighting our way.
Just like Jupiter & Saturn crossed paths from our perspective last night here on earth, may we ask for God to shift our perspective to his presence so we can be present to the gifts He has for us this Christmas.
And if you’re looking for a way to give (and get a tax receipt) this year, head to www.lovehealinghugs.com and pay for a child living in poverty to have a life changing surgery this year. $360 dollars ($1 a day) or $30 a month will sponsor a surgery for a little one who can’t afford it. Send a healing hug this Christmas!
Thanks for your love and support thru this crazy year! Merry Christmas friends!
xo
Chris, Jodi, Milo & Ziggy
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I woke up this morning feeling heavy-hearted, overwhelmed, and an overall lack of clarity & focus. We are all balancing a lot these days, and the holidays are a magical time, but they add another layer to everything don’t they? Here’s the thing - even in our over-whelm we still need to get up and function to take care of ourselves & our families. I don’t have all the answers, but God does, and He definitely met me in the middle of it all and helped me through. Here’s some tangible ways to feel and fight through overwhelm... and it all starts with His love. I hope you find this helpful, love to hear your thoughts!
Ps - This weekend ONLY, everything in Jodi’s shop is 20% off including these beautiful cross scarves! -
This Thanksgiving is so different for all of us. We can’t get across the border to see family and eat turkey, and many of you are staying home and staying safe as well. In the midst of it all, we have been feeling sad, lost, overwhelmed and exhausted, and a little ashamed for feeling that way. As Christians aren’t we supposed to just push through and “be thankful?” In this week’s podcast episode we talk about just that - how being thankful isn’t turning a blind eye to our pain and sadness, but knowing he is right there with us in the midst of it. It is ok to feel both - sad and thankful.
Jesus himself said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” so He was giving us permission to feel down. But scripture also reminds us that we don’t mourn as those who have no hope, and “the joy of the Lord is our strength”. The only way Chris and I know of, to resiliently find hope in the midst of a challenging 2020, is to develop our gratitude muscle. Gratitude leads to joy, which leads to strength. We hope you find this episode both honest and encouraging as we let you into our lives. You are not alone! Wishing you all a meaningful and memorable Thanksgiving!
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It’s been the coolest thing watching the words I wrote connect with your heart and lead you to the Father. I started writing “You Got This” when my kids were babies, and seeing it in your hands is thrilling! Chris collected all of your questions about the book and some of our songs and we turned it into a podcast. Hope you enjoy having your questions answered and I hope our shout-outs were pronounced correctly! If you haven’t ordered the book yet or want to buy a bunch for Christmas presents, go to www.iamjodiking.shop
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