We had so much fun with you during our Spring Sisterhood Study! We have two new episodes left until we break for the summer, and you’re not going to want to miss today’s stirring conversation.

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Show Notes for Episode 209 with Lisa-Jo Baker

Lisa-Jo Baker, author of the gripping memoir, It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping, discusses how it is not too late to rewrite parts of our story and positively impact generations.

Today’s Guest: Lisa-Jo Baker is a bestselling author with a BA in English/prelaw from Gordon College and a JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Lisa-Jo has lived and worked on three continents in the human rights field. Originally from South Africa, Lisa-Jo now lives just outside Washington, D.C., where she met and fell in love with her husband in the summer of ’96. Their story together spans decades, languages, countries, books, three very opinionated children, and one dog.

 

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Things We Talk About:

• It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping memoir
• MOPS
• Mr. Holland’s Opus
• Surprised by Motherhood by Lisa-Jo Baker
• Blood, Dirt, Water
• Luke 8:43-48
• Katie’s endorsement for Lisa-Jo’s memoir

It is not too late. You can rewrite new plot lines into your bloodlines. @lisajobaker #marthamaryshow #memoir #faith @leenienhuis Share on X

We can only be as healthy as we are willing to take these wounded places to Jesus. @lisajobaker #marthamaryshow #faithjourney #faith Share on X

Today’s Verse: Luke 8:47-48 (NIV)

Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.’”

A grown daughter fights to decode her heated history with her father in order to rewrite her future as they are pummeled by angry waves of grief, in a sea of regret. Courageously facing the cries of a beloved country and deciphering her family’s layered dialect amid apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker examines where hurt and healing collide…under the South African jacaranda tree.

Exquisite writing, brave exposure, untangling the complexities of the root system of a bent family tree. Highly recommend!

Pick up your copy today of Lisa-Jo’s gripping memoir.

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• Producer: Jeanna Lesausky 

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