148. A Rescue from Your Daily Rut

<p><strong>Key Conversation Points:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Who remembers the tag line for our new and improved podcast? Lisa-Jo is working on it. We've all been there. </li> <li>Join Lisa-Jo and Christie as they discuss the lowbar of hygiene, losing tempers at stupid socks and men who don't use their phones for incoming calls. </li> <li>Christie, "The ordinary can feel like the quicksand that's got a hold of us."</li> <li>Our work can feel wasted in the routine but there is a renewal of all things. </li> <li>Does our refrigerator really give us a look into our mental state? Heaven help us! </li> <li>How is it possible to commune with God in the daily, ordinary tasks? </li> <li>Nicole M. Roccas writes in her book, <a href= "https://store.ancientfaith.com/time-and-despondency/">Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life</a>, "Time...becomes not a fatal loop of mortality but an upward spiral, a never ending dance of love drawing us farther up and farther into the eternally loving God." </li> <li>How is there beauty in dying flowers and how can it parallel our life? Lisa-Jo learned a lot from <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/floretflower/?hl=en">Floret Flowers</a> on IG. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Podcast links:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.blackbarnonline.com/">Click here</a> to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.</p> <p>_______</p> <p>Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.</p> <p><a href="https://www.betabrand.com/ordinary">Click here</a> for 30% off your order with Betabrand, for a limited time. Find out why women are ditching typical work pants for Betabrand’s Dress Pant Yoga Pants.</p> <p><a href="http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary">Click here </a>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. </p> <p><a href="https://greenchef.com/ordinary">Click here</a> to go to GreenChef.com/o