Hope for Right Now: A Walking with Purpose Podcast

Episode 36: Priority 3: Your Marriage, Part 1

In today’s episode, Lisa and Laura dive into Lesson 4 of Ordering Your Priorities, Priority 3: Your Marriage. This is a big one, friends, so we will give you a special, bonus episode on marriage next week. Acknowledging that marriage takes work—it can be wonderful and painful—Lisa and Laura set out to remind us that we should never lose hope. With God, anything can happen. Miracles can happen. God doesn’t just part things like the Red Sea. He brings things back together. We pray this conversation offers you peace and hope wherever you are.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Genesis 2:24: Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. 

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Isaiah 59:1: The hand of the Lord is not too short to save.
John 12:24: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Ephesians 4:26–27: Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
What suffering in your marriage are you making worse by refusing to accept it?
Look at the pain in your marriage and ask yourself, “What virtue might the Lord be inviting me to grow in?”

Show mentions.
Dan and Stephanie Burke, Divine Intimacy Retreat
Flourish: The Art of Being Human. Register here.
Pope Saint John Paul II, “We are not the sum total of our weaknesses and our failures; we are the sum total of the Father’s love for us.”
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Episode 35: Priority 2: Your Heart

In today’s episode, Lisa and Laura dive into lesson 3 of Ordering Your Priorities, Priority 2: Your Heart. Most of us live as if our hearts aren’t a priority. We tend to put other people’s hearts before our own, believing that’s what a good woman is supposed to do. But guess what? We matter to God. Our wild and beautiful hearts are the most essential parts of us, and if we don’t tend to them properly, we run the risk of becoming physically, mentally, and spiritually spent. Are you ready to build the good life by prioritizing your heart? Well, then…grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and click play!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Psalm 56:9: My wanderings you have noted; are my tears not stored in your flask, recorded in your book?

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Philippians 2:2–4: Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Matthew 16:25: Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Jeremiah 31:3: I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
1 Samuel 16:7: The Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
Isaiah 43:4: You are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you.
Psalm 4:8: In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
What form of self-care do you turn to instead of inviting the Lord to heal your heart?
What are you trying to get through that is meant for you to grow through?

Show mentions.
CCC 2563: The heart is the dwelling-place where I am, where I live…The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully.
St. John Paul II, quote.
Flourish: The Art of Being Human. Register here.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Remaining Grateful: A letter from Lisa Brenninkmeyer, sign up here. 
Cecilia Pigg, Aleteia, St. Monica inspires us to reassess our attachment to alcohol 
St. Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine

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Episode 34: Priority 1: Your Relationship with God

In today’s episode, Lisa and Laura dive into Lesson 2 of Ordering Your Priorities, Priority 1: Your Relationship with God. If we desire to live lives of purpose, happiness, and fulfillment, we have got to get this priority right! Why? Because only God knows what will make us happy and what we most long for. But let’s be honest: it can be hard to trust God. When we have experienced hurt or abandonment, putting God first doesn’t come easily. If this is your struggle, join Lisa and Laura in this powerful conversation and discover how a personal relationship with God changes everything for the better.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture. 
Psalm 91:1–4: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and the deadly pestilence; he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode. 
Sirach 51:2: You have been my protector and helper, and have delivered my body from destruction, and from the snare of a slanderous tongue, from lips that utter lies.
Deuteronomy 32:10–12: He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone did lead him.
Ecclesiasticus 51:31: Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves into the house of discipline. (Douay-Rheims)
Psalm 5:3: O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case for you and watch.
Psalm 143:8: Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in thee I put my trust.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
St. Josemaría Escrivá said, “Conquer yourself each day from the very first moment, getting up on the dot, at a fixed time, without yielding a single minute to laziness. If, with God's help, you conquer yourself, you will be well ahead for the rest of the day. It's so discouraging to find oneself beaten at the first skirmish...

“The heroic minute. It is the time fixed for getting up. Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and… up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.” 

What lie plays in your mind that says this is impossible for you to do? What could you change in your nighttime routine in order to faithfully give God the first part of your day?

Show mentions.
Henri Nouwen, Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit.
Dan Burke, “From the Occult to Catholic: Love builds a bridge for Truth,” YouTube video.
Steven Furtick, “Sometimes God gave you what you needed in that Bible verse you didn’t read.”
Anna Golden, “Psalm 91.”

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Episode 33: Building the Good Life

The start of a new season and school year allows us to reboot. Even if we no longer have kids in school, it’s a chance to turn a page in the calendar and start fresh. But let’s be honest…it can also be incredibly overwhelming. This is why Ordering Your Priorities is the perfect study for this time of year. Join Lisa and Laura as they walk us through Ordering Your Priorities, an eight-week Walking with Purpose Bible study. Here’s the truth: not all things are urgent, and some good things can remain undone. If the thought of not getting it all done makes your heart race, this series is for you!

In today’s episode, Lisa and Laura discuss Lesson 1, Talk 1: Building the Good Life, setting the stage for the weeks ahead. Tune in now, and let’s start building the good life together!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Matthew 7:24–27: Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Psalm 33:11: The plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations. (NIV)
Psalm 32:8: I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Luke 11:28: Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it.
Luke 14:28–30: For which of you, deciding to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”
Jeremiah 6:16: Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.”
2 Corinthians 4:18: Because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
In which relationship are you feeling the scrape of the chisel? Are you feeling tempted to pull back and isolate? Invite God to reveal to you if this is actually an opportunity to grow more like Him.

Show mentions.
St. John Paull II. Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. This, as has already been said, is why Christ the Redeemer “fully reveals man to himself.”
Flourish: The Art of Being Human. Register here.
Benjamin Windle, Digital Church in a Lonely World. We all carry brokenness, personality quirks and the ability to make choices that hurt others. However, the potential pain of being in community is not simply an unwanted by-product; it is a key part of the purpose of community. It is the very fact that community costs us something that makes it valuable.
Beth Moore: If we only choose to be around those who require virtually nothing hard from us, what will prompt us to change? God often uses others as the chisel to carve true integrity into our rough personalities. A chisel that never scrapes the stone is useless.
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Episode 32: Real Women, Real Stories, Emily Jorgensen

Join us for our four-part series, Real Women, Real Stories. In each episode, Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Laura Phelps sit down to chat with a woman who has inspired and challenged them to grow in their faith and relationship with the Lord. Knowing each woman personally, they have been able to see up close the way that her relationship with God has transformed her heart and changed her life. These women are strong, wise, and tenderhearted. They teach us that every one of us has a story, and every story matters. Lisa and Laura love these women, and you will, too! 

Open your Heart to our key Scripture. 
Isaiah 43:1: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode. 
2 Corinthians 12:9: My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. 

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
In what area of your life is God asking you to step out in faith? What is something specific from this podcast episode that can help encourage you to trust Him and say yes?

Show mentions.
The Messy Family Project
Our next series is coming soon. Using code OYPBOGO, purchase one Ordering Your Priorities and get a second one at 50% off. Limit one use per customer. This offer ends October 31, 2024.
Prepare for the next episode by watching Talk 1: Building the Good Life. 
Join an Ordering Your Priorities virtual group this September. Register today.

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Episode 31: Real Women, Real Stories, Beth Groonell

Join us for our four-part series, Real Women, Real Stories. In each episode, Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Laura Phelps sit down to chat with a woman who has inspired and challenged them to grow in their faith and relationship with the Lord. Knowing each woman personally, they have been able to see up close the way that her relationship with God has transformed her heart and changed her life. These women are strong, wise, and tenderhearted. They teach us that every one of us has a story, and every story matters. Lisa and Laura love these women, and you will, too! 

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Proverbs 3:5–6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Romans 12:15: Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for evil, to give you a future with hope. 

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Do you find yourself looking at an aspect of your life (maybe your marriage, children, career) and thinking, “This wasn’t how it was supposed to be?” 

Go to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament (if you can) and bring it to the Lord. Ask Him, “What are you inviting me into, Jesus? What virtue, what lesson do you need me to learn?”

Show mentions.
Sister Sophia Prayer

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Episode 30: Real Women, Real Stories, JoAnn Crouse

Join us for our four-part series, Real Women, Real Stories. In each episode, Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Laura Phelps sit down to chat with a woman who has inspired and challenged them to grow in their faith and relationship with the Lord. Knowing each woman personally, they have been able to see up close the way that her relationship with God has transformed her heart and changed her life. These women are strong, wise, and tenderhearted. They teach us that every one of us has a story, and every story matters. Lisa and Laura love these women, and you will, too! 

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Corinthians 12:9: He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Isaiah 43: Promises of Redemption and Restoration
Revelation 22:6: These words are trustworthy and true.

Invite Him in with this episode’s question for reflection.
What habit can I be cultivating TODAY that will prepare me if, at some point, the rug is pulled out from under me?

Show mentions.
Comunità Cenacolo America, https://www.hopereborn.org/
Sarah Kroger, The Detour
Lauren Daigle, Trust in You

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Episode 29: Real Women, Real Stories, Jeannine Yousif

Join us as we kick off a four-part series, Real Women, Real Stories. In each episode, Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Laura Phelps sit down to chat with a woman who has inspired and challenged them to grow in their faith and relationship with the Lord. Knowing each woman personally, they have been able to see up close the way that her relationship with God has transformed her heart and changed her life. These women are strong, wise, and tenderhearted. They teach us that every one of us has a story, and every story matters. Lisa and Laura love these women, and you will, too! 

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Psalm 91:1–5: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence; he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and a buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Luke 12:6–7: Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
What lie does the enemy most often use to mess with you? How do you fight back?

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