Want to write a letter to your younger self?
… grateful, grateful for Davis sharing their music for the DD Podcast. :)
Feb 27, 2019
If you know your Enneagram number and sometimes wonder, “What’s next?” then you’re going to love meeting Clare Loughrige.
Not only is Clare is the co-founding Lead Pastor of Crossroads Church and Ministries in Marshall, Michigan which she started with her husband, Scott, more than 25 years ago but she also provides preaching, teaching, and spiritual direction for the leadership team. In addition, she is a formally trained spiritual director for leaders with The Transforming Center in Wheaton, Illinois.
And (wait for it) she has written two books about the Enneagram, her most recent being Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram: A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation. This book is filled with exercises to engage, challenge, encourage, and sustain you to grow in greater awareness and lead you to spiritual and relational transformation via your Enneagram identity.
Whether you know much about your Enneagram number or not, you’ll love Clare’s rich content about relational and spiritual transformation in this interview.
I’m so glad for you to meet her!
SHOW NOTES
- Clare’s new book, Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram: A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation
- Enneagram Motions of the Soul Training in Michigan with the Loughriges
- Ruth Hayley Barton’s podcast: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
- Scott and Clare’s podcast: Enneagram and Christianity
- Join the Dear Daughters Launch Team
CLARE’S LETTER TO HER YOUNGER SELF
Dear 30-year-old Clare,
You are enough. Rest. Replenish. Retreat. Let solitude and silence quiet your inner performance-oriented driven self. Practice creating for an audience of One. Allow your young children to re-orient you to your essential-self. Let God love you without proving you are worthy of love. Let your acts of justice emerge from silence and listening. Allow the slow wheels of justice to grind slowly. The arc of the moral universe is long, and it is a long way to heaven. Take slow, presence minded, purposeful steps. You desire to do God’s will and that pleases God. Allow the slow work of God to work in you as well as the world you want to serve. You are loved for yourself. Be open. Be present. Be love <3
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Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)
Feb 20, 2019
In a world of constant chaos and conflict, homes are often the only places of peace where souls find rest.
Everybody longs for that place of comfort called home. And in today’s noisy world, home there’s an instinctive yearning to make that space a place of refuge and beauty. Author Christie Purifoy, calls this art of creating such a space, “placemaking.”
In her new book, Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty and Peace she explains what it means to build a space of beauty and peace, whether that’s in a tiny apartment you feel you’ve outgrown or a massive dream house. Whether an untamed garden or a messy work space.
Christie Purifoy earned a PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago before trading the classroom for an old farmhouse, a garden, and a writing desk. She lives with her husband and four children at Maplehurst, a Victorian farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Christie is inspiring and I’m glad for you to meet her.
SHOW NOTES
- Christie’s new book,Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty and Peace
- Texas A&M traditions
- My story about how God spoke through a hike in the mountains is in Unafraid: Trusting God in an Unsafe World.
- Christie’s Instagram
- Psalm 90:1 Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!
- Join the Dear Daughters Launch Team
CHRISTIE’S LETTER TO HER YOUNGER SELF
Dear Twelve-year-old Christie reading her copy of The Secret Garden for the third time,
I know that book is filling your heart with a sweet but painful ache. I know you want a garden of your own. I remember how those descriptions of an English springtime blooming with daffodils sent you straight outside into your father’s Texas garden. But I also remember what you found there: mosquitoes, fire ants, scorching heat, and a humidity so thick it took your breath away. You gave up.
You did not ask your Dad “for a bit of earth” as Mary had in the story. You would never grow beautiful things. Didn’t have what it takes, apparently. Best to stay indoors and read another book and another book and another book until the Texas summer finally gave way to the first cold front of November.
Dear girl, so hungry for beauty. Keep reading those books. Keep dreaming of daffodils with yellow trumpets though you have never seen them with your own eyes. That desire for a bit of earth has been planted in you by your Maker. It is good no matter that it hurts so much right now. Don’t stuff it down too far. Don’t see it as a sign of your own failure. Nurture it with stories. Feed it with the roses your mother cuts from your father’s garden and places in a jam jar on the kitchen table. Enjoy the Texas wildflowers in March, those fields of red and blue. They are every bit as beautiful as Mary’s secret garden, though they need no care from you.
One day you will understand why you read that book so many times, and you will give thanks for the ground beneath your grownup feet. You will understand that this is no ordinary ground. It is ground prepared for you–prepared for your spade and your watering can, your dreams and your desires–years before you knew it would be given to you. And when the daffodils you planted bloom by the hundreds you will sing a song of praise to the God who calls forth music from yellow-petaled trumpets.
Want to write a letter to your younger self?
… grateful, grateful for Davis sharing their music for the DD Podcast. :)
Feb 13, 2019
"God has equipped you for this season. He has made you strong. Walk in it. Chin high, shoulders back. And fight for what’s important. Fight for connection, privacy, wisdom … these moments are full of wonder and wretchedness. God will use these days."
Meet Kate Merrick. She’s an author, speaker, mom of three, and the cofounder of the Reality family of churches with her husband Britt. She also specializes in making up dances to The Greatest Showman soundtrack, riding a surfboard, horse, or roller skates, and adding more butter to pretty much everything. She lives in Carpinteria, California with her family, five chickens, two goats, and two miniature donkeys.
Kate’s new book is Here Now: Unearthing Peace and Presence in an Overcoming World.
She also has another book, And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering, which tells the story of her losing her daughter to cancer.
Kate is all joy and I’m glad for you to know her better.
SHOW NOTES
- Kate’s new book: Here Now: Unearthing Peace and Presence in an Overcoming World.
- Kate’s interview on DD Episode 21
- Psalm 90:12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
- Justin Earley on DD Episode 79
- Join the Dear Daughters Book Launch Team
KATE’S LETTER TO HER YOUNGER SELF
Dear 34 year old Kate,
“Yes, this is heinous, this awful cancer diagnosis.” And, “You are ultimately not in control, but God is.” I want to say, “Honey, sweet, sweet mama, you’ve got to trust God. Worrying only gives you ulcers and makes everyone around you anxious.” I want to say, “God has equipped you for this season. He has made you strong. Walk in it. Chin high, shoulders back. And fight for what’s important. Fight for connection, privacy, wisdom, for your son who is thrown in the middle of the crisis. These moments are full of wonder and wretchedness. God will use these days.”
Want to write a letter to your younger self?
… grateful, grateful for Davis sharing their music for the DD Podcast. :)
Feb 6, 2019
Remember the time I offered to homeschool all the children? Yes, it would be in the interview with my new friend, Jessica Smartt.
Jessica’s a former English teacher turned homeschooling mom of three. She’s an ESTJ, an iPhone addict (in recovery) and anxiety overcomer. She’s also an allergy mom (only slightly neurotic ;), loved by God, and wife to Mr. Fix Anything. She runs a mean 12-minute mile and can make just about anything dairy free.
She’s on the podcast today creating a life giving community and family via making meaningful memories. Jessica’s new book, Memory Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life into Your Home, is about all that and more.
I’m excited for you to get to know her!
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SHOW NOTES
- Jessica’s new book: Memory Making Mom
- Natalie Coulter’s Watercolor Journal Mint and Maple
- And my interview with Natalie on DD Episode 40
- Speaking of memory making, this is interesting: The Power of Moments
JESSICA’S LETTER TO HER YOUNGER SELF
Dear 30 year old Jessica,
You know what you need to do. Put down the phone, stop the frantic cleaning, and don’t worry about rushing to the next place you need to go. Enjoy your children! Now take a deep breath — whatever you are worried about, God has it handled. You don’t have to manage the entire universe. One day, one moment at a time. When you feel lost or anxious or guilty, go back to the basics and back to the rituals that bring you and your family life. You know what’s important! Ask God for help and go do the right thing.