141. Living a Grace-Filled Life in a Stress-Filled World (with Ruth Chou Simmons)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are you doing to improve your life? We are going to dive into what it looks like to replace the gospel of self improvement with the gospel of life transforming grace and our special guest is</span> <a href= "https://ruthchousimons.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruth Chou Simons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Everything that Ruth does has this aroma of beauty which is the opposite of me. Where I am a cut and dry minimalist.</span></p> <p><a href="https://ruthchousimons.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ruth Chou Simons</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a best selling author and founder of</span> <a href="https://gracelaced.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">GraceLaced</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. She has been married to her husband Troy for 23 years and they have been involved in the local ministry most of their lives. Ruth and Troy have 6 sons, yes you heard correctly. Ruth is in multiple stages of parenting with her oldest being 19 and her youngest is 8.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talk about dating ourselves by being bloggers and on the internet since the beginning, and how Ruth’s blogging has evolved into more of a community effort and being more active on</span> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/ruthchousimons/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. GraceLaced started out as the name of Ruth’s blog and is now the name of her current business. We talk about why Grace matters and why it is the cornerstone of Ruth’s ministry, her life, her work, and why she talks about it all the time.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruth and I discuss how she is currently walking out the message of her new book,</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/When-Strivings-Cease-Self-Improvement-Life-Transforming/dp/1400224993/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of