152: How To Find Meaning In The Daily Chaos of Raising Kids with Justin Earley

In Episode 152, we’re interviewing Justin Earley about how to find meaning in the daily chaos of raising kids. Have you ever felt a title more deeply? Justin will show us how ordinary routines are actually extraordinary opportunities to live out the love of God in a profound way. He’ll give us the tools we need for parenting and discover spiritual meaning in the everyday moments of waking, mealtimes, screen time, and bedtimes. 

HouseHold Habits as Gospel Liturgies:

Whether you realize it or not, parenting happens in habits. We make meals, we get in cars, we answer SO many questions, we discipline, and we do bedtime. So much of our relationship with children happens through these ordinary rhythms of the day, and yet how often do we go through these motions as if they were meaningless? How often do we just blaze through these mundane “chores” to finally get some “me-time?” 

In this episode, Justin will show us how ordinary routines are actually extraordinary opportunities to live out the love of God in a profound way. He’ll give us the tools we need for parenting and discover spiritual meaning in the everyday moments of waking, mealtimes, screen time, and bedtimes. 

We trust that you’ll find this episode inspiring and useful in establishing new habits and intentional rhythms around your everyday routines. We hope that by seeing these mundane moments as spiritual practices, your family will have a greater sense of peace and purpose as your home becomes a place where everyone learns how to love. 

In This EPisode, You’ll Hear About:

• Find meaning in the daily chaos that surrounds you
• How ordinary routines are extraordinary opportunities to live out the love of God in your family
• Discover spiritual meaning in the everyday moments of:
  • Waking
  • Meal times
  • Screen times
  • Bedtimes

Resources Mentioned IN This Episode:

• Habits of the Household: Practicing The Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms by Justin Earley
• Habits of the Household website
• Parenting In Our Digital Age
• Netiquette: Teaching Our Kids Online Manners
• How To Find Your Family’s Purpose

Quotes And Tweets:

• Your habits don’t change God’s love for you. But, God’s love for you can and should change your habits. – @Justin Earley
• If the light of morning is what wakes us to the day, then the light of Christ must be what wakes us to reality. It is the light of Christ that pulls back the curtains of the heart. @Justin Earley
• The most Christian way to think about our households is that they are little “schools of love,” places where we have one vocation, one calling: to form all who live here into lovers of God and neighbour. This is not a works-based legalistic endeavor, it’s a grace-based beautiful one. – @Justin Earley
• We become our habits, and our kids become us. @Justin Earley
• The greatest spiritual work happens in the normal moments of domestic life. @Justin Earley
• Your work in the household and parenting matters tremendously. It will echo into eternity. @Justin Earley

Meet Justin Earley: