When it comes to holiday preparations, are you a methodical list maker like Gretchen, or are you more scattered and spontaneous like Jennifer? Do you put up the Christmas tree before or after Thanksgiving? Is your Christmas card picked out by October or are you taking family selfies in the second week of December?

No matter where you land in the spectrum of planning and preparing, we believe that there’s grace and opportunity to delight in this special time of year!

Every family has their own set of rhythms when it comes to transitioning into the holidays, but many of us still feel like there’s room for improvement to create more space for peace and rest during such a busy time.

In our second Home for the Holidays episode, Gretchen and Jennifer chat about practical ways to bring beauty and comfort into the atmosphere of your home, while also discussing how both internal and external limitations can impact our ability to make the practical things happen.

We hope that you are encouraged by this honest conversation where we navigate the space between our ideals and everyday life when it comes to embracing all that this sacred season has to offer.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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While the pumpkins are still on your porch, it seems like a good time to think ahead about how to intentionally prepare our homes and hearts for the holiday season.

Introducing a new series called Home for the Holidays, Gretchen and Jennifer reflect on their childhood experiences of the season and how those memories have impacted their orchestration of traditions with their own families.

We also discuss the importance of asking questions and having conversations with our children and spouse to see what traditions, menu items, experiences (and even decorations) matter to them. Are we needlessly spending energy on certain things because we have wrongly assumed that everyone expected or valued them? There’s only one way to find out!

Cultivating an atmosphere of sacredness in our homes is a way to push back darkness and reclaim light and life for ourselves and all who enter, whether for spouse, child, or guest. And at the same time, we are invited into a divinely intimate communion with the Father, where the washing of each dish, the folding of another towel, the hundredth tidying of the living room… we offer ourselves in worship. And He sees.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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Faithfulness in relationships can take many forms. In the final episode of our friendship series, we welcome Jennifer Wood, Gretchen‘s longtime friend of almost 50 years to share conversation about longevity, grace, forgiveness, and genuine affection.

We were made to experience authentic and meaningful connection and unconditional acceptance, and yet it remains rare. We hope you’ll find a moment to be inspired by this deeply personal and honest conversation about the ideals and everyday life surrounding friendship. Our conversation with Jennifer was filled with laughter and tears and endless encouragement; we can’t wait to share this one with you.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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Cherished friendships can bring satisfaction and encouragement to a life riddled with challenges and trials, but is there ever a friend who’s available to us at any and every moment? Christ is the only one, and he already knows your deepest needs and desires. Intentionality and devotion will allow us to cultivate a deep friendship with Jesus that will sustain us through every season of our lives.

In our second friendship episode, Gretchen and Jennifer ponder friendship with Jesus, and they also speak honestly about past experiences with loneliness during childhood, postpartum, and in ministry.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in for practical wisdom, book suggestions, and fresh perspectives on how to cultivate deep and authentic friendships.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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Friendship is a topic that elicits a broad spectrum of emotions and experiences. Whether your memories are full of kindred bonds or many years of loneliness, there is a place for you to connect with our latest series on friendship.

How do we define it? How would our ideal friendship work, and then what does everyday life look like? How does friendship with our children shift as they are growing up? Is friendship with our children even appropriate?

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in as Gretchen and Jennifer share meaningful insight and personal experiences with you as we step into this special series!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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He’s a Christ follower, husband, father, friend, shepherd, disciple, leader, musician… Meet Brooks Joyce. Finishing up our worship series, Brooks sat down with Gretchen and Jennifer to discuss the ideals and everyday life when it comes to living a life of surrender.

After two decades on staff at Port City Community Church in Wilmington, NC, Brooks possesses a tremendous outpouring of wisdom, conviction, and passion for leading people into an encounter with Jesus in his role as Worship Director. While leading a team of over 30 musicians has provided ample opportunities for discipleship and service, Brooks maintains that his wife and children are his primary ministry focus.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in as Brooks shares numerous scriptures, inspires us towards authenticity, and offers behind-the-scenes insight into the Akedah Worship School that launched this year for his team.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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What happens to our physical bodies when we sing and meditate? Is there a place for personal preference when it comes to the style of worship music at your home church? Should bodily posture be considered during worship and prayer? How does the lens of God’s mercy shape our worship?

This is a sampling of the questions we cover during the second episode in our worship series. We hope you find a moment to listen in to this inspiring discussion, where Gretchen and Jennifer share more of the ideals and everyday life as a worshiping believer.

Don’t forget to send us your favorite worship songs so that we can add them to our Spotify playlist, which will be available to all of our listeners on the show notes page!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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Everyday life as a believer is filled with countless opportunities to express praise and honor to our Heavenly Father, but if you’re like us, you’re prone to wandering affections too. How can we remain aligned with Jesus in our minds and hearts as we move through the mundane and routine parts of our lives? Is it possible to transform ordinary into sacred? To worship in spirit and in truth as scripture prescribes, we must invest ourselves in knowing the fullness of God with our hearts and minds.

Believers can easily and unknowingly reduce worship to the singing of songs on Sunday mornings, but this conversation invites us to recalibrate and intentionally offer the wholeness of our lives as a living sacrifice. This is the ideal worship.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in with Gretchen and Jennifer as we begin this new series on worship as we share personal experiences, encouraging verses, and - of course - everyday life.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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