Feathers Podcast

In this episode, I chat with Kathy Schwanke.

Kathy is firstborn of a dozen; she has been married to her high school sweetheart for 31 years. They make their home in St. Croix Falls, WI. They have two married children and four grandsons.

Kathy is Woman’s Ministry director in her church where she serves Jesus with a team of eight women. Her passion is teaching a Woman’s Sunday Bible Study, leading community Bible studies, and serving as a mentor for MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) and for several teen girls.

While suffering in a season of severe anxiety and depression, the Lord spoke to her about leading women to experience the healing that comes from the love of God and how the truth of His word sets us free and empowers us to live a full and fruitful life.

She blogs at KathySchwanke.com

In this episode Kathy and I open up the episode with a chat about her family and the many winter sports in her area that are not in mine here in the Carolinas!

Kathy then shares her story of how she and her husband found themselves without their farm of 12 years, no income and a load of debt during the financial crisis of 2008. She shares how God led them to flip a house and how even though it was difficult, time-consuming and at times discouraging, God used it not to just provide for her family but those around her.

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Links from the Episode

• Lysa TerKeurst’s The Best Yes
• Head over to Kathy’s blog and she has posted photos of the flip house.

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Scripture

Blessed is the one
    who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
    or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
    which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:1-3

 

In this episode, I chat with Jessie Weaver.

Jessie is a stay-at-home mom to three little ones: Libbie is 6, David is 4, and Joshua will be 2 in March. She is a freelance writer and editor, working for ParentLife and HomeLife magazines. She has been blogging since 2006, and last year made the move to JessieWeaver.net

In this episode Jessie and I open up the episode with a chat about the terrible 2’s and essential oils.

Jessie then shares the story of how her and her husband had plans as a young married couple for her husband to become a college professor and for them to move close to their parents and raise a family.  God completely disrupted their plans, taking them down paths they never thought they’d go. At times it seemed that God had forgotten them and He wasn’t on their side and yet, by trusting Him through these twists and turns, God provided in ways they couldn’t have guessed and formed a life they love and is able to influence hudnreds of young men for the glory of God.

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Links from the Episode

• Allume Blogging Conference
• Love essential oil blend Amy uses
• Jessie’s link to Young Living Oils (Lavendar and Cedarwood for sleep; Peppermint and Joy for depression)
• Modern Mrs. Darcy
• Modern Mrs. Darcy’s post about remaking your life
• Jessie’s eBook Parenting Parables

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Scripture

 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,
    for God is with us. Isaiah 8:10

Eek! Welcome to Feathers!

If you need a catch up what all these feathers are about or what this podcast is about, this is the episode to check out.

In this episode, I share some thoughts about faith, our feather story, which I’ve written about here and finally, describing the format of future episodes of Feathers, Feathers will be a weekly podcast where I will be interviewing one guest per week. The guest will be sharing their faith stories.  What are the times when God calls us to do something scary/crazy/beyond conventional wisdom or perhaps the times God dropped a difficult season in our lives and then asked us to remain faithful to Him? Hopefully these stories will encourage and inspire you to believe Him more.

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Links from the Episode

• Our Adoption Story
• Our Feather Story
• The post about the drawing and the feather painting at Allume
• Holley Gerth’s blog
• The Allume Conference (let me know if you’re going this year!)
• A listing of the feathers found

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Scripture

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. Psalm 91:4