If you are overwhelmed trying to make life Pinterest-perfect, you are in good company! This week, Kathi chats with comedian and self-proclaimed Hot Mess for Jesus, Kerri Pomarolli. Kathi and Kerri discuss what it means to find grace right where you are today, in the midst of a messy, busy life.
In this episode, you’ll laugh along with Kathi and Kerri as you learn:
- What it means to be a Proverbs 32 woman, AKA a Hot Mess for Jesus.
- How to figure out what level of decluttering works for you
- Who are the people you need to have around you in your life
For Kathi’s family stuffing recipe, click here.
To hear Sebastian Maniscalco’s bit about company coming over, click here (warning: some language is inappropriate for children).
Order your copy of Kerri’s book, Confessions of a Proverbs 32 Woman: How I Went From Messed Up to Blessed Up Without Changing a Single Thing from Amazon today.
Giveaway
As a special treat, Harvest House has generously offered our readers the chance to win five copies of Kerri’s new book, Confessions of a Proverbs 32 Woman: How I Went from Messed Up to Blessed Up Without Changing a Single Thing.
One grand-prize winner will also win:
Kerri’s devotional book, She Rises Late and Her Kids Make Her Breakfast
Assorted Tea
Nutella 2pack
Snack Box
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Meet Our Guest
Kerri Pomarolli
You can learn more at Proverbs32woman.com
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My life is full of these Proverbs 32 moments. And luckily now I can laugh at them. One of my best. Locking myself in our garage while naked and having to kick a door down to get out. I am also known to buy egg nog and hide it from the family so it doesn’t get drunk right away and I then have it for my tea.
I LOVE THIS! I have always had a hard time thinking of myself as a Proverbs 31 woman b/c, well, I’m just not that industrious. I’m gonna try to tell this story of my youngest son’s senior prom this past April. (and I’m gonna make several assumptions that y’all know what I’m talking about, but some of these things/terms may be regional, not sure.) My son had a tech school competition scheduled in Atlanta the same day as senior prom in NE Alabama, about 3 hours away. They would be taking a motor apart and putting it back together, and getting pretty dirty. They were scheduled to do this twice, at x-time and x-time. Our options were to miss one or the other, but we decided we could pull it off. Plus my son was part of a team, and he didn’t want to let them down. The plan – Finish the competition; high-tail it to the city where the prom was being held (about an hour away from home), eat, stop by the gym they (he and a friend who went with us) had a membership with that had a branch in the same town, and they would “freshen up” in the gym locker room. What actually happened – the competition ran way long. He didn’t even get to do the second run and just had to tell his alternate, sorry dude I gotta go. (side note, tech school is where kids from different county schools go to take classes to learn a trade. He was the only guy on the team from his school.) Of course, by the time we get to the gym, it was after “staffed hours,” and they had left their key fob thing at home, and the guy at the gym wouldn’t let us in (even though I had cleared it all with the local branch). SO, my son and his friend proceeded to get dressed for prom (tux, vest, shoes, ties, the whole thing) right there in the shopping center parking lot. I then had my older son meet us to bring prom boy’s car, we grabbed some fast food, they scrubbed the grease from under their fingernails, combed their hair, and sprayed on some Old Spice in the Jack’s bathroom, we adjusted ties and vest straps in the dining room, and he arrived at prom only 20 minutes after it started. Now, instead of having the fancy group photo at a scenic location with all the guys and girls dressed to the nines, like everyone else does, WE HAVE snapshots of them standing in the parking lot in their boxer shorts and socks. (behind a blanket of course). But y’all! that suits this boy’s personality perfectly! Nothing about this kid has ever been normal or traditional. He loves having a story to tell!
Reading the obits, I noticed an elderly friend of my mother’s had passed. The service was that next day. I dutifully picked up my mother and we went to the service.
Someone randomly called on me to offer a ‘memorable moment’ before those gathered there that day. So I shared how our family so enjoyed this person’s company, etc.
Afterward, at the reception, pictures were displayed.
That person wasn’t the same person as our friend.
Same full name, same birthdate. Obit was brief on the rest. It could happen to anyone.
I made a beeline for my mother. We made a beeline to the car.
And we laughed about it all the way back to mom’s place!
Occassionally, over the years, before my mom’s Home-going, we had a good chuckle over that ‘memory’.
Just not sure if that is what Gloria Gaither meant when she wrote about ‘making a memory’! LOL!