PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 323: How Do You Keep It All Together?

LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 323: How Do You Keep It All Together?

Courtney Kelly joins me again today to answer a question. A group of us mothers were fellowshipping together after church when one asked Courtney, “How do you have it all together? You have ten children, and yet you arrive on time, and you all look perfect!” Well, we all got into a big discussion with lots of debate. It was such fun that I thought I should get Courtney to come and answer this question on the podcast. 

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! I’m excited to be with you again today. I have Courtney Kelly with me again today. We didn’t even plan this. Last week you heard Courtney’s story of what God has done in her life and in her family. We thought, “Well, that’s it.”

But we were sharing at fellowship meal after church last Sunday, and that’s, I think, one of the greatest things about our church fellowship here on the Hilltop. That is, we don’t just have a meeting, and everybody goes off. No, we have fellowship meal afterwards, where we actually fellowship. It is so wonderful! We get to talk about so many different things, the things of life, and the nitty-gritties. It’s amazing.

It seems the men gravitate to their tables, and somehow us women gravitate to our tables. We get talking about all kinds of things. In fact, I noticed that Sunday, we were getting so raucous so carried away with what we were talking about. We were just about screaming and yelling at one another. The men were looking, wondering what was happening!

But, oh, it’s just so sad if you miss out on fellowship meals. Some churches do have it. Not every church does. Of course, we’ve been in different churches over the years, and we’ve always tried to establish a fellowship meal. But at some, we haven’t had that. Instead, we would have hospitality. If we hadn’t been having fellowship meal afterwards, we would always invite people back to our home. Often, we’d have 30 or 40 people come back to our home.

Once again, it was fellowship, a meal that is part of church life. I’m thinking now of the example of the early church in Acts 2. Let me take you to it so that we can see it for real. But this is the example of the early church. This is what they did. It says here in Acts 2:42: “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.”

There were four things that were the testimony, the criterion, the example of the early church. Firstly, of course, it was the teaching, the apostles’ doctrine. It’s so important that we know doctrine, and we walk in doctrine. But yet, fellowship, that is such an important part of our gathering together.

And breaking of bread; well, that was fellowship too. That wasn’t talking about communion, because the breaking of bread, yes, they would often have communion with that, or a love feast. Many times, it was in homes and hospitality. “Breaking bread from house to house.” They would fellowship with one another.

“And in prayers.”

Fellowship is a big part of the gathering of ourselves together. Many churches don’t have that, so they’ve only got one part of what they’re meant to be doing. They come, they go to church to worship, get a good message to keep them going for the week, and they go home. That’s it. Help!

We are meant to be fellowshipping. We’re meant to be having hospitality, breaking bread in one another’s home with each other, and getting together to pray together. Wow! We need the whole church.

There was a time when Colin and I were part of the Foursquare Gospel. When we went to the Philippine Islands as missionaries in our early married life, we became part of the Foursquare Church in the Philippine Islands. It was called the Foursquare Church, but I believe this Scripture, really, is the foursquare gospel, because that’s how they operated in the early church.

Anyway, Sunday, we were sitting around our table, talking together. Nadia, one of the ladies in our fellowship (I have done a podcast earlier with Nadia). Some of you may know her. She is the mother of seven wonderful children. She is now a single mother. She wasn’t when we met her. Sadly, this has come to pass, but she also has the incredible responsibility of her youngest daughter, Gracie, who was born with a very rare disease, so rare they didn’t think she would live very long.

But then, not only did she face that (Gracie’s disease is that one side of the body is normal, but the other side grows these big tumors). Then Gracie also, at about four years of age, was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. So, Nadia has been coping with that, and in and out of hospital for the last two years or so. Still, we just keep praying for Gracie, for she lives day by day by our prayers and the healing power of God.

We were all there, and Nadia said to Courtney, “Courtney, how do you have it all together? You come to church with your ten children, and you look like a smashing model, and all your children look so ‘got together.’ How on earth do you do it?” Well, that’s what started our conversation at the table. As we were talking, I thought, “Oh, wow, we’ve got to do a podcast on this because everybody wants to know how to keep it all together, don’t we?”

Courtney: We do! I do, also! [laughter]

Nancy: Well, here is Courtney. She has ten children as you heard last week. Her youngest is Zion, who’s only one. Actually, Courtney, I realized you homestead. You are homesteading down there, just a few miles down the road from us. And you’re homeschooling, and milking cows, and you’ve got chickens, and you’re breeding dogs. Help! What else do you do? And your life is so busy. But then comes Sunday, and you look as though you have nothing to do all week! [laughter] Tell us how you do that.

Courtney: I thank you for the compliments, but I have to tell you that Nadia often embarrasses me with these pointed questions that portray me, maybe not as I feel that I am. I appreciate it, but I come with a lot of humility to this because I don’t have it all together. Probably anything that I say today came through maybe some of you listening, because I read articles. The Lord really searched me in my younger days with my family. Hopefully it’s a blessing to all of you as we share some of the practicalities.

Nancy: Well, I think they’ve come out of . . . I remember you were saying last week that when you were young, even before you were married, you would look at some big families, and think, “Oh, help! I wouldn’t want to live like that!” So, you set standards for yourself of how you wanted it to be. And somehow, you've been able to make some of them work.

Courtney: Yes, God’s been so faithful. When I had young children, and our family was growing quickly, as we had five under five years old, we would all go out together. As we really did commit ourselves to the Lord to have as many children as He would give us, my personality said, “OK, how are we going to make this work? Because if we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it well.”

So, when I would become pregnant with another baby, I’d think, “How am I going to go grocery shopping with three children?” I would plan this out in my head. Where are they going to sit in the buggy? Where are they going to stand? How are we going to still do life, because I didn’t want to quit everything.

Nancy: I love that, the fact that you were thinking about it. I think so many, we just went to the market, not thinking how we were going to do it. But you thought how you were going to do it.

Courtney: Yes, because I wanted to still be able to go to the store with my family. I still wanted to be able to go to people’s homes. If we’re going to do this, what is it going to look like? What’s going to have to happen? I tell this to people.

Obviously, if you’re going all in, your life is not going to be the same as if you only had one child, or two children. There is a revolutionary thing that happens, where we let things go, and we think on other things. But it works. God’s wisdom works.

Some people say, “Oh, how would you ever do that, with that many children?” Well, we don’t stop at the mall. We don’t buy everything brand new. That’s the choice that we made. But you can make it work. It doesn’t have to be so hard.

We would go to the store. Walmart was like our little mission field when the children were young because I had two under two years old. I got so much attention because I had these two children that looked the same age but looked total opposites.

People would stop me all the time, commenting on my family. Then when I was pregnant, they’d say, “Wow! Your hands are full!” In our hometown, the overall picture I got was that children were despised, and that they were a burden to the system. There was a lot of welfare, and a lot of what were on rough side there. I knew that was the perception of the people going into the store.

I wanted, everywhere I went, even as a teenager, I wanted my words to represent Christ. I wanted everything, “Lord, make my smile preach the gospel! Make everything in me shine Your glory.” If I had children, I would want my family to be that. I knew that everywhere we went, we spread a fragrance. I knew people were watching because they stopped me so often.

The world is watching, and I want to present them with something that’s beautiful, and something desirable; that children don’t have to be a burden. We stood out like sore thumbs in our town. It was about 15,000 people, a small town. We stood out like sore thumbs because there was a lot of depression, and people didn’t really take care of their children very much. There was always yelling at the store, and it was stressful. The children didn’t look taken care of. It was hard to see that, but I wanted to bring hope. I wanted people to notice, not so they could be discouraged, but so they could see that God’s ways are good.

As we had more children, I had so much more opportunity. “Lord, what is my message now? What can I say in this one-liner, so that ten different people who are going to ask me today, ‘How do you do it?’” My message started evolving. I felt this cheesy thing, “Oh, God gets the glory!” I would say these things, and say, “Oh, that just doesn’t fit, Lord!” [laughter]

“What better thing can I say?” I started being able to say, “God’s wisdom is so good. He’s the one who had the idea of children, and He knows how to raise them. When we can do it His way, it’s so precious. We love our children.” Make my smile

So that kind of got the ball rolling in our arena. I think I had to deal with pride over the years, with that too. This is my disclaimer, is that it’s not about making people want to be like us, oh, because we’re so good, and we have it all together.

There was a point in this Walmart visit where I would be trying to convince someone of my own wretchedness, because they’d say, “Oh, my goodness! I’ll bet you're the most patient person in the world!” And I’d say, “No, I’m really not!” “I’m sure you have everything together, and you must be a saint!” “Listen to me, ma’am,” I’d say. “Anything good that you see in me is because of Christ in me. I am just wretched in and of myself, believe me.”

I depended on God daily, because I was aware of who I was. It wasn’t that I wanted to put on airs, that I had it all together, because I don’t. I don’t. I raise my voice with my children. I don’t always look like a million bucks. I want to have humility in that too. But I want to do what I can to represent what I believe, that I am a child of God, and that we are children of the kingdom.

It’s not about wearing expensive things. It’s not about keeping up with somebody else. It's about doing what we can do to present ourselves to the world, that we are like an epistle, written for all men to see. We don’t always have a chance to say something, but our very presence does speak.

Nancy: Absolutely! OK, so now, getting back to Nadia. She mainly sees you when you come to church, and you’re all looking great. How do you make that work, with ten children? To all get there, and you're pretty much on time.

Courtney: We start early.

Nancy: Yes! And that’s amazing. They’ve actually got shoes and socks on, and shirts. The girls just look glorious, beautifully dressed. And their hair’s all beautiful. How do you do it? We want to know. How does it happen?

Courtney: OK, it doesn’t all look the same every week. Some weeks I plan, and it’s amazing! Everything’s just in order. But it’s not always like that. Sometimes we’re rushing, and I think yesterday, we were half an hour late. I was telling myself, just because you said that, that I’m late! Half an hour late yesterday.

But there are so many practical things. I try to Sabbath on Saturday, so Friday’s my big day. I hit my laundry hard, starting in the morning. I want all that laundry done, because I know I’m not going to do any laundry for a couple of days. So, the first thing is all clean laundry, which is so practical, right?

That seems silly, but laundry was something that I used to see people with piles of laundry in the basement. I said, “I don’t ever want to do that!” Well, I ate crow. We were talking about needing to say, “We don’t want to be prideful, and not judge anybody else, how their children dress, or their piles of laundry, or their socks, or any other thing.”

I was very aware, when I walked into my beautiful family closet, with shelves lining the walls, and I had a mound covering the whole floor! In that instant, no, it was very serious to me. I felt that I had received a judgment that I had passed on people when I saw their piles of laundry. It was such a simple lesson, but I took it with severity, because it was when I started in my motherhood to say, “Oh, God, forgive me, and help me not to judge other moms.”

Because this is laundry. This is not my child turning away from the Lord, or my child not going to church anymore, or any myriads of things that we judge in others. That’s my other little practical thought I’ll throw out there. “Oh God, forgive us.” Catch those judgments quickly. Because this is about wanting to honor the Lord. It’s not about setting ourselves higher than somebody else.

But anyway, the pile of laundry. When I was younger, the pile of laundry started overwhelming me! It was always such a big deal. My friend Danielle, who we talked about last week, she saw me in that struggle, and she said, “I will not have that struggle!” And she’s always kept up on her laundry. She’s done really good.

Laundry’s no longer a big thing for me. It’s so funny now, when I look back. I have way more laundry now than I’ve ever had, and it’s just not an issue. Just do a little bit every day, catch up on Friday, hang it up, and it’s done. We have clean laundry!

The other thing is that I started at some point for the boys, we had dress clothes that were black, and we had dress clothes that were brown. I wanted everybody to have the same stuff, so we decided to do khaki pants. We do brown shoes, and then they wear dress shirts. So, they know. The expectations have been laid over the years. They know we’re going somewhere nice. They’ll ask, “What do I wear?” to go over to dinner at someone’s house.

They know what it means to dress nicely. They have to wear their dress shoes. They have to put on a pair of khaki pants, and a nice shirt. There will be no tee shirts. We have firm rules that they know, so on Sunday morning, I’m not fighting with ten different children on ten different wardrobe issues. Because issues arise, but we can really eliminate a lot of it with just the basics.

Nancy: You made a stand of what you expect them to wear, and they know that’s what they dress for on Sunday. Do you have it all there, ready for them?

Courtney: It’s basically they get their own stuff. My five-year-old dresses herself on Sunday mornings. Solly just turned three. She can climb up and pick out her dress. She knows to pick out a dress, and she picks out a pair of bloomers. She can do that. We pull together, but everybody has their thing. It’s not a big issue.

I try to throw away things that I don’t want them to wear. If it has holes in it, it goes in the trash, because inevitably, they’re going to wear it. If you look at the picture Nancy shared last week, you will see a skirt that got passed up. I said, “There’s that holey skirt that I didn’t throw away! I should have thrown it away,” because you just never know when the permanent picture will be centered!” [laughter]

Nancy: Oh, yes, but wasn’t that a delightful picture, where they were going to be outside?

Courtney: No holes! But there are still things you can do to show respect for the event that somebody else held. Maybe you’re going to be playing outside, but you don’t need to have dirty clothes on. You don’t need to have holey clothes on. You maybe could match. There are ways to do this.

I also say that we buy basically nothing new. Most of our lives we buy everything thrift, everything yard sale. Early on, I was exposed to yard sale deals, and I was blown away at the amazing things I could buy for my children at yard sales. Almost everything is second-hand and thrifted. Goodwill is my go-to for everything else.

Nancy: How do you manage for them all to have matching socks on Sunday!

Courtney: [laughter] It’s funny, but matching socks can elude us. It’s such a silly thing. But they make mismatched socks. I personally prefer socks to match. So, when the socks come out of the laundry, right now we’re in transition in our family.

A GREAT IDEA – THE FAMILY CLOSET

We have a family closet. That was something I learned from a magazine years ago. We have a family closet. Everybody’s stuff is hung up in one room. We do not do dresser drawers. We do not do shelving anymore. We hang it. I’ve been wanting to try it for years, and we’re doing it, and I love it!

Nancy: So, you have one whole room, just for the clothes?

Courtney: One whole room, and as a matter of fact, we just moved into a fifteen hundred square foot house. A boy’s room, a girl’s room that’s relatively tight, and then one room, a whole room, that has to be the family closet. I’m not putting children in that room. I’ve done that. That’s becoming a logistical blessing. That’s what it is.

It was a very over-sized closet in terms of the family closet. It’s right off the hallway now. Everybody’s laundry is in there. I don’t even allow them to keep laundry in their rooms, because we would fold it, put it in the drawers. They would have to dig through it to get it, and it would be all over the room. It was always a sight. Now it all goes into one room. Everything is hung, and everyone has one bin for their underwear. They put their socks in there, or their tights, things like that. Everything is easy.

Nancy: They go to their bin, get their stuff, get their pants, and then take it from the hangers, and go to their rooms.

Courtney: There’s shelving along the floor, and all their dress shoes are in there. Overhead are boxes with other seasonal clothes and other extra clothes that can’t fit hanging. I keep organized so that it’s all right there.

Nancy: Wonderful! That’s so great! Because the children, I guess, do they do the laundry too?

Courtney: Yes, it just depends. We do jurisdictions, so it rotates. Right now, I do a lot of the laundry. Arden helps with a lot of the laundry. The little girls are seven, five, and three, so Hadassah and Remeny, the seven- and five-year-olds, they can switch the loads, and they’ll go hang it up.

Nancy: That’s so lovely! So, they can get identical socks, because you have a bin, don’t you?

Courtney: Yes, right now, I have three five-gallon buckets that used to be my food buckets. Like I said, we’re in transition. Two are for matched socks. The matched socks, whose ever they are, they just go in those buckets. Then there’s a third one for mismatched, because we always have mismatched, but you don’t want to throw them away yet.

Nancy: No! Because you’ll find the other one!

Courtney: Yes, so every now and then, that’s a chore for one of the little ones. “Go dump the socks and do the matching.” Because I was saying that as our children have gotten older, there are so many. When they were younger, I just stuck with one kind of sock. “You have this kind of sock, and also a funny secret, so don’t tell anyone else, OK?”

My children have worn the same kind of underwear throughout their lives. For instance, I don’t want to give away any particulars, but for instance, maybe your eight-year-old started wearing striped Fruit of the Loom when he was two. He can wear striped Fruit of the Loom his whole life. And then maybe your other daughter can wear polka dotted. So, the whole time, I know all their undies apart.

But socks have not gone that way. When they were younger, I could remember, but now there are so many different kinds that they all go in the bucket. Everybody knows all the socks are in there. You dig for a moment and find one of yours, because you have ten pairs or more. And then we’re good to go. Socks are a non-issue.

And you have to wear socks. They know they would not go out without socks. They taught little children how to fold these. You hear the funny stories of your children showing up to church without socks. We have done that. We’ve been there. We get to the grocery store, and maybe they don’t have shoes because we didn’t do a quick check before we left. That happens to us.

But overall, they know the rules. You have to have shoes and socks on. You have to be dressed a certain way, or you're not coming. So, fix your hair. That was another thing. We talked about the meals, about coming to the meal table. You have to wear your shirt to the meal table. It has to be on. It’s just a small thing, but it’s the way we show respect for the person who made the meal, and to honor the occasion. It brings it up a notch.

Nancy: Oh, it does. I love that.

Courtney: “Go fix your hair!” I like their hair to be longer cut, and if it’s not taken care of, it’s all over the place, and I’ll just give them a look. They jump up, and they run, and they fix their hair really quick and come back.

Nancy: I think that is so true. The value that you put upon the table, and the expectation you have for your children will determine how they are at the table. It even determines their behavior. If you allow your children, when you say “Suppertime! Come!” And they just come how they are. They haven’t washed their hands, done their hair, or they’re just dirty. They come like that.

They are not realizing, “Oh, this is special. We’re coming to the family table! We come in a way that is going to honor the table.” You establish that with your children, don’t you? So, they know now that’s how they come. At suppertime, the boys make sure they have a clean shirt on. Yes, that’s so great.

Courtney: It’s a small thing, because some of their lives, we unschool. We do a lot of things loosely. We do a lot of things very tightly also, but there are so many loose things that it’s nice to have those things that pull your family together.

We were talking about respect being lost. In almost every area of our lives, there are very few ways for us to show respect now. You almost have to create them for your family. You have to bring them back or create your own. What is it that you want respected in your family? Maybe it’s your Bible time. Or maybe it’s when you go out in public. You can form opportunities for your children so that your children know how to show respect.

They will grow up doing that, and they’ll do it with their children. “We always came to the table with our clothes on. We always did our hair.” And hopefully it’s something that they’ll continue to perpetuate, and they’ll have their own things that they’ll add in there. “Wow, we were pretty loose, Mom, when we did this and that,” so add to it.

Nancy: I think that’s so wonderful. In fact, the more we can bring respect and reverence and honor to the way our children behave, the better in this society which is so lost. I’ve always found that the meal table is the place where you don’t just come as you are. You bring it up a notch, as you said.

I remember reading about John McCain. He’s now passed on. He was going for president at one stage but didn’t get it. He wrote this book about his time in Viet Nam, and about his forefathers, his parents and his grandparents who were great patriots. But he said his parents always came to the meal table—his father in a suit, and his mother in an evening gown.

Courtney: Wow!

Nancy: That was really up a notch! But it shows that the honor way back there that they put on the family meal table.

Courtney: Yes. And wouldn’t we feel weird serving peanut butter and jelly to someone in their evening gown or a suit? You would have to bring your whole meal up a notch.

Nancy: Oh, absolutely! But now people hardly even sit at the table, let alone know how to!

Courtney: You taught me that. You taught me that so much.

Nancy: That’s so wonderful.

Courtney: I feel that we almost, as a mom, we love ourselves by creating order in our homes, around everything we do. Order is so valuable to us. Anywhere we can have order is really going to love on us more too. It’s good to love on our family, but if you let your children eat all day and come to the table, and leave the table, that’s so chaotic.

When that happens in my home, I’m not enjoying my meal. I’m not enjoying my children. It’s very chaotic. “Come back to the table! Stop carrying that around! Are you finished? You’re not done. Finish your food!” And there’s just constant chaos, and they’re hungry an hour later. It affects the whole day.

Nancy: It does. And you know, I think that Scripture, I often think of it. Isaiah 9:7: “Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever.” You see there that God ordered His kingdom. He doesn’t have a chaotic kingdom. It’s an ordered kingdom.

We’ve been called into His kingdom. I think we just read that Scripture this morning at our family devotions. We’ve been called into His kingdom. Let me look it up, because it is so amazing.

1 Thessalonians 2:12: “That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto His kingdom and glory.” So, we’ve just read how God orders His kingdom, and now we read that God has called us into that kingdom, a kingdom that is ordered.

This is a kingdom we’ve been called into. A kingdom belongs to a king. We’ve been called into this kingdom. We’ve become royalty. We’re no longer commoners, amazingly. In Christ, we’re called into this incredible ordered kingdom. It also says, “And unto glory.”

Wow! If we think about it, that should have an effect upon our lives and our family life, and how we’re ordering our little kingdom. Because our family is another little kingdom, part of God’s kingdom. We’re meant to do it the way He does His kingdom and orders it. That is so cool.

Anyway, what were some of the other things that we . . . I remember Nadia saying to you that not only do you look put together yourself, but you always look so beautiful, so feminine, and so lovely. It’s so beautiful to see your girls. You dress them so femininely and so beautifully. It’s so wonderful.

She was also asking how do you get them to look like that? But I think you’ve really been sharing that. But maybe I should ask . . . wow, we’re getting to the end of our time, aren’t we? Maybe we could have another session and ask a few more questions.

Courtney: OK.

Nancy: I think we’ll do that. We’ll close this one now, and we’ll do another one.

Courtney: Can I say something really quickly? That would be that this is something on my heart as we were coming over. Sometimes these things can feel overwhelming to a mom. I don’t know the different situations of the people listening, but you hear all these views, and the things that you need to add, and it can feel so overwhelming. But my heart in coming was that everyone wouldn’t hear just Nancy and Above Rubies and Courtney, but this is from the Lord, because His heart for our family is so valuable.

Motherhood is so under attack. It’s so powerful. It affects everything. It affects the family, the generations, our nation, our world, the kingdom of God forever. The enemy will do everything he can to cut off truth. We want to always be open to what truths the Lord is speaking to us. Maybe it doesn’t look the same, but “God, how do I apply this? Is there an area that You want to minister to me?”

But it’ll never be a burden. God’s ways aren’t burdensome. They’re a blessing, and there’s truth to be had, so we don’t want to cut it off. I’ve been in that place, where I cut off truth because of offense, and because the enemy’s voice saying, “Oh, yeah, there’s another thing to ask.” Just hear the voice of the Lord speaking to you and your family.

Nancy: Yes, amen! I love that, love that. Actually, I was just given a book over the weekend. It’s the story of this dear woman who went out to India to serve the Lord, but how she learned to serve the Lord. It tells how she learned to wait, to stop, and to listen. She’d been so busy serving the Lord, and so busy preaching, and so busy telling everybody what to do and how to get saved, and nothing was happening. Just nothing.

And then, this visiting minister came. Someone came to him with a problem. He said, “OK, well, let’s just wait and hear what God will say to us.” So, he waited, and he taught the person there to wait. “And we’re just going to listen to God speak.” And then God began to speak. This person was miraculously, incredibly saved from this terrible life, and they got convicted, and repented. It was all so amazing.

This woman began to see, “Wow! Is this how it’s meant to work?” And she began to live like this. The book tells the stories and the miracles that happened out of just doing this. Every time there was a problem and every time there was a need, “OK, let’s just come together, and we’re going to wait.” They wait in silence before the Lord, and they listen. And then God would begin to speak, and He’d show them the answers! It was amazing!

I haven’t quite finished it, but every story is so miraculous! I’ve just been amazed! That carries over to what you have said. It’s not doing what someone else does. It’s doing what God wants us to do and listening to His voice. I remember reading that Scripture, how God gave the whole plan of the temple to David by the Spirit, by the Holy Spirit. David listened to the Holy Spirit.

I think that’s what we, as mothers, have to do. Help! We don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to do just the practical things, even just the ordering of our homes, and we don’t know what to do in certain different things. We need to get with the Lord and wait and listen until He speaks, and He’ll show us.

Courtney: He will speak.

Nancy: Yes! I love it!

“Lord, as we close this session, we ask that You help us to listen to You more, Lord God. Listen to You in Your Word, as we read Your Word, but to listen, Lord, even as we wait on You. So often we’re so full of words, and Lord, we’re asking You for this, and that, and everything. But Lord, teach us how to listen so we can truly hear Your voice showing us what You want us to do. We ask that You’ll help us all in this. Lord, we want to know more and more of Your ways, in each circumstance. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”

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“LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell, Above Rubies”

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IT IS ENCOURAGING FOR ALL WIVES AND MOTHERS.