Episode 75 :: Bunmi Laditan :: Stories of a God Who Listens and Truly Cares
Today, I have the absolute pleasure of getting to share my conversation with the one and only Bunmi Laditan. Some of you may know Bunmi as the author, blogger and social media Honest Toddler personality. And while Bunmi has some HILARIOUS truths to share about children, surviving raising them, and parenthood, this season Bunmi is walking in now looks a little bit different. Her latest book, Dear God: Honest Prayers to a God who Listens, are beautiful heart cries from a woman who has been to hell and back trying to find what she truly believes in.
Bunmi shared with me her spiritual journey of completely running away from who she thought God was, and discovering He is more amazing and real than she could have ever dreamed. We talk (and laugh A LOT) about motherhood, mental health, the powerlessness of success, the dark places we can go looking for something to believe in, and so much more.
Her fire for the Gospel and the beauty of who Jesus really is just warmed me to my core. For those who have searched so many places for answers, who just keep waiting for the hard to relent, who have wounds from religion, or trauma from humans, who have fumbled through any kind of darkness, this conversation is for you. Bunmi is the most relatable human I’ve talked to in a hot minute when it comes to all things being a parent, combining your mental and spiritual health and clinging to Jesus because we are just a wreck without Him, and I pray this conversation meets you where you are.
Dear one: There is a Father in Heaven who loves you, He’s not ignoring you, your pain, your question, and your confusion matters to Him. He can handle it all. He is not like the people who have skewed your perception of Him. Ask your questions, friend. He is a good Father, searching the horizon for you.
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References:
Confessions of a Domestic Failure
Dear God: Honest Prayers to a God Who Listens
Berkley/Oakland Area late 80’s-early 90’s
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Dr. Michael Heiser- Demons, Unseen Realm, The Gospel in Stranger Things, our conversation
History of Moab and the Moabites
My conversation with Ally Fallon, and how the body processes trauma
Sissy Goff and Dave Thomas’ podcast “Raising Boys and Girls”
Raising Worry Free Girls- Sissy Goff
Maverick City Music - “To You”
“ruach ha-kodesh” - Holy Spirit in Hebrew
Scripture References:
James 1:6-8-we are double sided in our sin
Leviticus 19:31, Isaiah 8:19, Deuteronomy 18:9-14- divination and don’t mess with it
Ephesians 6:12-spiritual warfare
Ephesians 1--principals and authorities and principalities
Matthew 22:37-love the Lord with all your heart,mind, soul, and strength
2 Corinthians 10:5-take every thought captive
Luke 15:11-32-Prodigal Son
The book of Acts-how the early Church began, caught between two worlds of loving and observing Judaism and absolutely knowing and loving Jesus. Learning to live according to grace and not be controlled by the Law because Jesus came to fulfill the Law
Luke 9:58-foxes have dens, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head
John 15:4-11-abide in Me
1 John 3:1-There is a loving Father in Heaven who loves you
Psalm 121:1-2-God is not asleep
1 Peter 5:7 -God cares about You
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Romans 8:28-Everything has a purpose
Isaiah 61:3-He gives beauty for ashes
Matthew 26:46, John 14:15-17-We don’t have to do hard things alone
Matthew 1, Jeremiah 23:5, Micah 5:2- Jesus is from the line of a MESSY man named David
Book of Ruth (also, our conversation on her story, a reading of the book here!)
Ephesians 6:10-18-Armor of God- the offensive and defensive weapon in the word of God
Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139-I knew you before you were in your Mother’s womb
Jeremiah 29:11-I have plans for you not to harm you
Psalm 121-I lift my eyes up to the hills where does my help come from?
Matthew 18:21-22-How many times do I forgive? Seventy times seven
-He came to give us abundant life
Psalm 98-Mountains will bow down, the seas will roar
Psalm 24-Everything responds to the Lord, the Earth is the Lord’s and all that is in
Psalm 22:3-He inhabit the praise of His people
Matthew 6:10-On Earth as it is in Heaven
John 3:34-The Holy Spirit has no bounds
1 Corinthians 1:27-confound the wise
Ephesians 2:10-you are a wholly loved masterpiece
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