Out of the Ordinary

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. _______ 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! Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off @honeylove #honeylovepod Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! Click here to visit Earth Breeze and get 40% off your next order with laundry detergent Eco Sheets! 

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: 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off @honeylove #honeylovepod Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! Click here to visit Earth Breeze and get 40% off your next order with laundry detergent Eco Sheets! 

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! 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off @honeylove #honeylovepod Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! Click here to visit Earth Breeze and get 40% off your next order with laundry detergent Eco Sheets! 

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: 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% OFF @honeylove #honeylovepod Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! Click here to visit Earth Breeze and get 40% off your next order with laundry detergent Eco Sheets! 

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  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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to get 20% OFF @honeylove #honeylovepod Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! Click here to visit Earth Breeze and get 40% off your next order with laundry detergent Eco Sheets! 

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. _______ 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! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off on HoneyLove. Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! 

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: 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off on HoneyLove. Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! 

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! 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off on HoneyLove. Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes!   

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. 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off on HoneyLove. Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Stellar Eats and get 20% off your next order on healthy and tasty baking mixes! 

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? 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 Honey Love for 20% off the best shapewear on the market! Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your order.  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift!

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? 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 Honey Love for 20% off the best shapewear on the market! Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your order.  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift!

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? 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 Honey Love for 20% off the best shapewear on the market! Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your order.  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift!

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 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 use code ordinary60 to get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your order.  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $10 off with the code ORDINARY! Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift!

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 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 Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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 Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your entire order today! 

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. 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 Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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 Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your entire order today! 

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? 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 Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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!

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." 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 Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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 Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your entire order today!

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!  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 Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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 Fast Growing Trees to 15% off your entire order today! 

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. 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?    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. 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!

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 Explore Christie's newest book at www.ahomeinbloombook.com Also, it is NOT too late to pre-order and claim your thank you gift: a full-color guide to easy, homegrown bouquet "recipes." Simply click here, scroll down, fill out the gift form and then check your email for your downloadable gift. 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!

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. 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 Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets! Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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!

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.  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! Check out Christie's new book, A Home in Bloom, and even pre-order your copy here. 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 Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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! _______ Podcast Launch and Editing Services: https://www.jodeysmith.com/ordinary 

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 Dead by 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.  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! Check out Christie's new book, A Home in Bloom, and even pre-order your copy here. 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 Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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!

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  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! Check out Christie's new book, A Home in Bloom, and even pre-order your copy here. 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 Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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!

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?  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! Check out Christie's new book, A Home in Bloom, and even pre-order your copy here. 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 Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY! 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!

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!  Let us know in the reviews if you've been to Light of the World Garden.  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 Thrive Market to get 30% off and receive a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Green Chef and get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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.  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 Thrive Market to get 30% off and receive a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Green Chef and get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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. 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 Thrive Market to get 30% off and receive a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Green Chef and get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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 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 Thrive Market to get 30% off and receive a FREE $60 gift! Click here to visit Green Chef and get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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.  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 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 get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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.  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 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 get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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. 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 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 get 60% off plus free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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 _______ 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! Click here to visit Green Chef and get 60% off plus free shipping ! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Click here to visit Earth Breeze to get 40% off laundry detergent Eco sheets!  Click here to visit Nutrafol to grow thicker, heathier hair with $15 off with the code ORDINARY!

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. _______ Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible. Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! 

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. Listener Resources: Click here to see a few of the podcast's favorite things 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 This episode is sponsored brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ordinary and get on your way to being your best self. Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! 

Key Conversations: 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? 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 This episode is sponsored brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ordinary and get on your way to being your best self. Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. Click here to join Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! 

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! 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 This episode is sponsored brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ordinary and get on your way to being your best self. Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. Click here to visit join Thrive Market today and get $80 in free groceries!

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. 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 This episode is sponsored brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ordinary and get on your way to being your best self. Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. 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!

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.  Discover Christie's books here. Discover Lisa-Jo's books here. 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 This episode is sponsored brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ordinary and get on your way to being your best self. Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. 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!

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 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 join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by our sponsor 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. 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!

How Not To Be Held Hostage By Hallmark: 1. Leave Blank Spaces 2. Restrain 3. Feel Empty 4. Leave Room for Real 5. Wait 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 join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by our sponsor 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. 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!

How to Not be Held Hostage by Guilt:  1. Don't be hijacked  2. Be Aware  3. Let go  4. Recognize the Internal Dialogue  5. Do less 6. Leave Room   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 join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by our sponsor 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. 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!

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  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 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 our sponsor 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.

Key Conversation Points: 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.    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 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.

Key Conversation Points: 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. 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 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.

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 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 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.

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. 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 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.

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." 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 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.