The Journey Expressed

Jenn & Mel

A place where we talk about faith, friendship & the more of God.

  1. 03/08/2023

    Episode 69 - Chris Willard - Cultivating a Lifestyle of Beauty - Part 2

    Part 2 of 3 In this episode, Chris Willard joins The Journey Expressed to continue sharing about how to cultivate a lifestyle of beauty.  Chris shares simple, yet profound insights that she has discovered in her pursuit of cultivating beauty within her marriage which include: Learn the art of paying attention Be in the moment Live your real life together Put aside something in your day to be with your husband Grow in your own character and knowledge Chris also shares the backstory of how she began writing her newsletter/devotional called Mend. Favorite quotes from this episode: "If we don't live (this one) life as beautifully and bravely as we can, we're fools" Reference from Buechner's book: The Hungering Dark "There has to be mystery" Mark Foreman "As women especially, we have all these different roles and jobs that we're expected to be juggling and sometimes we get confidence with the more roles we have, the better we feel about ourselves, but what happens...when we pursue all these different activities it leads to a fragmentation of our souls and we don't really know who we are because we're so busy doing things that we haven't spent time in the Word....its the Word of God that mends....God picks up all these broken pieces and mends them and restores order in our hearts" - Chris "Our purpose is to live for glory. Its not to be pulled, its not to be splintered or shredded" - Chris Books referenced: The Hungering Dark by Frederick Buechner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Find Chris on Instagram: @splintersong Find Chris's newsletter & more: https://christinewillard.substack.com/ https://bio.site/Splintersong?fbclid=PAAaYqf-dMcrYOMH1HWEBTPG0ceXJ4BW9DVz5SjrMrc7b-flfGBDT_ObRm-cA Thank you for joining us on The Journey Expressed - come back next time for part 3 where Chris shares about cultivating beauty in friendship!

    21 min
  2. 03/01/2023

    Episode 68 - Chris Willard - Cultivating a Lifestyle of Beauty - Part 1

    Part 1 of 3 Chris Willard joins The Journey Expressed to share about Beauty: how she cultivates beauty in her home, family, marriage and relationships.  Chris shares her word of the year, "tend" and how God is teaching her the power and profoundness of being tender and how she tends to her relationships. Chris shares how she would describe beauty and the life of a beauty chaser.  She encourages us with wisdom, eloquence and scripture about how beauty is demonstrated in her home through reasonableness in raising her 3 girls and how being reasonable "changes the culture in the home".   Scripture mentioned: I Timothy 2:24 Psalm 115:5-8 Phil 4:5-9 ESV Favorite quotes: "The life of a beauty chaser is someone who sees” - Chris "We want to teach our girls to order their affections...we want them to love what is beautiful and hate what is profane" - Chris "The enemy of our children's souls is out there and he is after them....if we are not in the fight to teach them beauty, then they are going to fall" - Chris "In order to bring beauty into the home, it has to start with us" - Chris "You have to have a baseline....to show (our kids) what is true, what is noble, what is lovely" - Chris "Raising children is not a relaxing job" - Jenn (Marilynn Chadwick) Come back soon for Part 2 where Chris will share how she cultivates beauty within her marriage. Thanks for joining us on The Journey Expressed! Find Chris on Instagram: @splintersong Find Chris's newsletter & more: https://bio.site/Splintersong?fbclid=PAAaYqf-dMcrYOMH1HWEBTPG0ceXJ4BW9DVz5SjrMrc7b-flfGBDT_ObRm-cA

    34 min
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