Welcome to The JOY Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast! I’m so glad you’re here. I believe that gathering at the table over a simple meal is one of the best ways to love people and invite them to a closer relationship with God. So listen in and enjoy … right now we’re talking about the secrets to joy at the table and I’ve invited my favorite table experts on the show. This week my favorite table expert is Kristin Schell. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Tony, and one of their four children—the others have left the nest. She loves loving her neighbors, and she wrote a book and travels all over to encourage others to love their neighbors, too. Kristin is known for her Turquoise Table, which started a movement of Turquoise Tables and Front Yard People (ordinary people who create community right where they live) across the country. I’ll let Kristin tell you more about that herself. Kristin believes that our deepest need is to belong, our deepest desires to feel needed and included. And an invitation to the table is a reminder that you belong, that you are welcome. And you know what? We are all in a position to offer that to someone in some way. It will look different for everyone. Our lives have seasons, and so does the table. And it doesn’t have to be an invitation to dinner, it can be an invitation for coffee or a walk or needlepoint. The important thing is to do just as it says in Kristin’s favorite verse, Romans 12:13: Take every opportunity to open your life and home to others. So let’s dive a little deeper into what that looks like today. I hope that you feel like you belong. And I hope that you will help others feel like they belong, too. My prayer for you and for me is that we will take every opportunity to open our lives and our homes to others. SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES SHOW NOTES Follow Kristin on Instagram. Check out Kristin online. Get a copy of Kristin’s book, The Turquoise Table! Become a Newsletter Friend and get weekly-ish encouragement and know about all the fun things coming up. Join us Sundays at my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online or in-person. Learn more about Storyline and Kirby Holmes. Stay at The Franklin our treasure in small town, Texas! Airbnb link here. Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan’s music. :)

I believe that gathering at the table over a simple meal is one of the best ways to love people and invite them to a closer relationship with God. Welcome to The JOY Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast! Right now we’re talking about how to find joy at the table and I've invited some of my table experts to the show.   Jen Schmidt lives in North Carolina with her husband, Gregg, and is a mom of five children and two daughters-in-law. Jen shares her heart for Jesus and hospitality on her blog, Balancing Beauty & Bedlam, and “accidental author” of her book, Just Open the Door. And, she now owns the Becoming Cottage to host ministry events (a lifelong big God dream of hers). Jen loves opening her door to people, engaging in deep conversation filled with truth and grace, and blessing everyone who sits at her table … or stands around her kitchen island. I hope this conversation we have is a blessing and an encouragement to you. We can learn our own kind of table ministry from Jesus. Jesus was always inviting, always including, always wooing, and he centered so much of his ministry around the table, feeding people, meeting people, loving people. But we overthink this. So, on this episode we dive a little deeper into what it looks like practically for us to ”evangelize at the table” … to be a blessing to others and simply live out what is so important in our lives, wherever we are in our lives, with intention. I hope that you will be brave and not overthink it and make the invitation. You have exactly what you need. I pray that you can be a blessing and a light to others. SHOW NOTES Learn about Your Table Ministry Check out Jen Schmidt on Instagram and online: Balancing Beauty and Bedlam. Follow the Becoming Cottage on Instagram, too. Get a copy of Jen’s book, Just Open the Door. Become a Newsletter Friend and get weekly-ish encouragement and know about all the fun things coming up. Join us Sundays at my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online or in-person. Learn more about Storyline and Kirby Holmes. Stay at The Franklin our treasure in small town, Texas! Airbnb link here. Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan’s music. :)

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. There is so much going on in the world right now. There are so many questions. And there are no real answers … because we don’t have any. Only God holds all the answers. And he holds all our days, too. I pray that you take care of your soul and protect your spirit from getting sucked into a spiral of worry and despair trying to get all the answers. I’ll help you. Start with five minutes. SHOW NOTES Get your own five-minute hourglass in my online shop. Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her newsletter list. Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving.

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. “The smallest and gentlest acts keep us grounded as we husband our lives with care.” – Julia Cameron Staying grounded in your life is a way to care for your soul. It gives us space to listen to God and listen to ourselves. Tending to small things in our everyday lives help us to feel grounded. How can you tend to your real life? SHOW NOTES Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her newsletter list. Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving.

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. Have you read any good stories lately? Stories are good for your soul. They help you take care of you. So I want to encourage you to find a good book that leaves you believing that God is in charge of the world. You’re in the middle of your story, but God is writing your story. SHOW NOTES Pick up a good book like Heidi by Johanna Spyri or Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery – both are included in this beautiful box set by Rifle Papers. Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her newsletter list. Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving.    

I hope you’re taking good care of yourself. This summer, I want to encourage you to experience soul care in a very practical, everyday way. Welcome to the Dear Daughters Summer Soul Care Series. I’m going to spend the next few weeks on the podcast helping you take good care of you. One way you can take good care of yourself is to make sure you have wise teachers in place in your life, especially during times of crisis and chaos. Your number one teacher is God, and you can always count on him and his Word to help you walk in wisdom. But there are other teachers too. Listen in to discover more. SHOW NOTES Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church Austin Christian Fellowship online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her newsletter list. Find The Grace Guide online:  Amazon | Cokesbury | Barnes & Noble | Target My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving.    

Well this is a first! It’s a Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. But before we dive into new music, a few things you might not know about Sara: “My family nickname is Aunt Sardie Pants.” “I love trail running.” “I do things I love until I break.” “I am deathly scared of roaches … and splinters.” Need more, listen in to DD Episode ‘Questions to Deepen the Mother-Daughter Relationship’ with Sara. And here we are in Round Top, where we love to shop til we drop. Can’t wait til next Fall when we go back to the Round Top Antiques Fest. SHOW NOTES Visit Sara Davis Regan site here and sign up for her newsletter list! Follow her on Instagram. Join her newsletter here. Sara’s first interview, DD Episode 3 Banjo Ben Clark Also, you might want to listen to this episode (with my other daughter) too! On Mother Daughter Relationships with Emily DD Episode 18 If your heart feels weary, get a FREE Soul Care Kit from me to you! Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter here! Get a Book & Bandana Bundle! It includes a signed copy of Dear Daughters and one of my favorites, Jenni Earle’s ‘Chin Up Buttercup’ Bandana. Order now to get the Grace Gift Bundle! It’s a signed copy of The Grace Guide plus my favorite lavender lotion from Hummingbird Farms! ORDER THE GRACE GUIDE ONLINE HERE:  Amazon | Cokesbury | Barnes & Noble | Target

Understanding that we don’t need as much stuff as we think we need is freeing. God has given us what we need and more than we know. Kathi used to be buried in clutter. She wouldn’t let friends into her home, she wasn’t doing the things she needed to do … she was living half a life. But she began to live in a new way and found freedom in a clutter-free life. Through that journey, she also learned that God has given her everything she needs. Kathi Lipp is a speaker, a podcast host, the coordinator of The Clutter-Free Academy on Facebook, and the author of 20 books including her most recent, The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life, and coming soon, Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small. Kathi says these four things about herself: “I absolutely adore my husband, Roger, like I have a deep crush on him it’s not even funny.” "We have a knock-off Puggle. We think she’s actually a Boxer Chiweenie. But we also say she’s part Velociraptor.” “My dad was a hoarder so this clutter stuff comes very naturally.” “I hate our current situation, but I’m loving that I get T.V. time because I don’t get enough.” Listen in to my conversation with Kathi. She knows all about organizing and decluttering the home, which is so timely since we’re all spending more time than ever in it. I want your home to be a place of peace and comfort! Kathi is truthful and encouraging and I hope this episode helps you take the next step to “dedicate, decide, declutter and do-your-thing” with your space. SHOW NOTES Kathi Lipp’s website Get a copy of Kathi’s most recent book, The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life Preorder Kathi’s book Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small Tune in to The Clutter Free Academy Podcast with Kathi Lipp here. Find Kathi on Facebook and join The Clutter Free Academy Group! Follow Kathi on Instagram and Twitter Get my book, Get The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life! Big shout out and thank you to Austin Christian Fellowship who is sponsoring the podcast. ACF wants you to know about The Archibald Project, a non-profit ministry that seeks to help orphans worldwide. To hear more, listen to DD Episode 116 with Whitney Runyon Deeply grateful for Sara Davis Regan for providing her music.   The Grace Guide will show you how to love yourself like your good Father has always loved you and how to live your one beautiful life. Dear Daughters is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving.

Host Susie Davis shares a little about herself and talks about why she started the Dear Daughters Podcast.