[Breaking Free Beth Moore Pdf To Word
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Not only did I get to read it before it was released, but I also got the inside scoop from Beth. And sister, we had the best conversation. She shared such interesting and encouraging insights from her life, and then we spent some time catching up.
Beth Moore is a New York Times bestselling author and teacher whose conferences take her across the globe. Beth founded Living Proof Ministries in 1994 with the purpose of encouraging women to know and love Jesus through the study of Scripture. She has written numerous bestselling books and Bible studies, including So Long, Insecurity; Chasing Vines; Breaking Free; and Now That Faith Has Come, as well as the novel The Undoing of Saint Silvanus.
In addition to her conferences, Beth can be seen teaching Bible studies on Living Proof with Beth Moore on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. She and her husband of 44 years live in Houston, Texas. She is a dedicated wife, the mother of two adult daughters, the grandmother of three delightful grandchildren, an active church member, and a dog-lover-to-the-death.
Beth Moore: What I have to give you is the authentic me. I've done that as well as I've known how in these books all of these years. But what I don't know how to do is a more sophisticated version of myself without coming across ingenuine. So this is it. This is what can I do?
KC Wright: Welcome to a fantastic, amazing, turn up the volume, can't stop listening podcast. This is a bonus episode of the 4:13 Podcast where practical encouragement and biblical wisdom set you and I up to live the "I can" life because -- here's truth -- you can do all things through Christ who gives you supernatural strength. Today you'll hear from one incredible guest: author and Bible teacher, Beth Moore. I'm KC Wright, Jennifer's seeing-eye guy, and now your host, Jennifer Rothschild.
Jennifer Rothschild: Well, hey 4:13ers. It's Jennifer Rothschild here. And I am so glad you're here because, oh, my goodness, do I have a gift for you. This is the first of three bonus episodes featuring author and Bible teacher Beth Moore. Oh, my goodness, y'all. She is talking about her brand new memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life. I got to listen to the audio version of this book, and I cannot wait for you to read her book or to listen to it, whichever you prefer. So on this first bonus episode, Beth is going to share her fears about writing this book and why the audiobook happens to be so special.
So we started off by she getting onto the podcast a little early, so she surprised me. And once I got over her showing up a little early and trying to get my act together, we caught up just a little bit, and then this is how the conversation started.
Jennifer Rothschild: Listen. I listened, okay? So your people sent me your audiobook, and I also gave it to one of my team members -- one of my very trusted team members. I said, "Here, I need you to have this and listen for me because I don't know if I'll have time to finish it." Okay? I barely ate, slept -- did nothing responsible and listened to your entire book. I loved it, Beth. I loved it so much. I'm not blowing smoke here. And I'm like a book snob and a coffee snob and -- the literariness of it was incredible. Your water motif that you pull through the whole thing; your storytelling is masterful. I mean, I am so pumped about this that I'm actually nervous. I mean, it is so good!
Beth Moore: Jennifer, listen, I got to tell you -- number one, you not only have just made my day and caused me so much joy, but I know you'll understand what I'm about to say, but -- relief -- because you have published many books yourself, and you know it just is never without anxiety. Never. And then add to it that it is your story with a lot of the grit in it that you have tried to just really stay on the surface of for a long time. I've known that if ever God prompted me, I was ready to go a little bit deeper so that I could spend some of my later years ministering fairly focused in some of these areas that are very challenging. But still, this is a memoir, and it's like -- boy, they're not just going to be critiquing my writing style or even my doctrine.
Beth Moore: Girl, it is the truth. And so the other thing I have to tell you -- because this will always be special to me -- you need to know that I did not know Tyndale had sent it to you. And Jennifer, you are literally the first person outside our small Tyndale team that has even listened to it. So of the general population. I have not had one word of feedback on that until you. I'm talking about -- because you did the audio.
Jennifer Rothschild: And so did one of my team members, by the way, who is very trusted. It turns out she didn't need to, but she was so happy that she got to because she was texting me quotes. She was saying, "I am undone." "I am laughing out loud." Okay. But I will say this, the reading is brilliant. The drama of it -- the musicality of it -- the lyricness. I mean, it was -- seriously Beth! Like, my friend, Paula, who works on my team, she said, "You need to tell people on that podcast they need to listen to the audiobook." She said, "I'm sure print is good, but there's nothing like that audiobook."
Beth Moore: You know, Melissa -- you know, my two daughters, Amanda and Melissa -- I texted them about this interview and [indecipherable] already had a heads up because Philip had told her that we were going to be on together today. But they had both said, "Mom, we think this will be maybe the first time of any of your books that you've done on audio..." They said, "Maybe more people will actually listen than actually read." And I don't know, we'll see.
But Jennifer, I was so afraid. Okay, here was one of my dilemmas. So here I am going to read back to my childhood and I thought, the only way I can do this is in my Arkansas tongue -- in the accent that we used inside my home. I've said as many times as anybody would listen, I'm not just from the hills of Arkansas. I'm from the bowels. I do mean the bowels of Arkansas way out in rural Arkansas. My people are buried deep in that ground and so we have all of those kinds of colloquialisms. And so it wasn't true to me. It didn't sound true to me until I just decided... Go with the accent and then tell them. So I hope they added this part because at the very beginning--
Beth Moore: It just didn't sound to use those kinds of disagreements between the noun and verb with a serious and ironic voice. I couldn't do it. So I'm so glad you made it through because afterwards I thought maybe that was not a good idea.
Okay, so Jennifer, when you said, "The music with it." See, I have not listened -- listen carefully to me because I'm not teasing with you and I think that you may understand this -- depends on how hard you are on yourself and if you're equally hard on yourself. But I haven't heard any of it, so I don't know anything. Girl no! I'm asked all the time, do you go back and review your work? Maybe it's obvious that -- know the answer to that. I'm watching myself on video or listening on audio. No! I can't stand the sound of my own voice, so--
Beth Moore: I am with you! What I have to give you is the authentic me. I've done that as well as I've known how in these books all of these years. But what I don't know how to do is a more sophisticated version of myself without coming across ingenuine. So this is it. What can I do? My story is not someone else's. I can think of a lot better stories to have, but I felt like, okay, it's mine, it's mine. And that felt good.
Jennifer Rothschild: As your friend who was completely and utterly ticked off about what's happened the last few years, I felt like your story and your heart and your character was well represented. And when you said -- you know -- "Delete anything that sounds defensive," whatever, I felt like you had such a magnanimous and humble spirit in the way you told that part of your story, I wanted to fill in a bunch of things. "But then so and so said this and then such and such did that." I've restrained. But my point is you could lay that at the throne of Jesus and say, "Here is my gift to you, and He would be honored."
Jennifer Rothschild: So now all the gushing and reassuring and just plain enjoying talking about how we felt about Beth's book is over. So now we're going to actually start talking about what is in the book. So here we go.
Jennifer Rothschild: All right, well, let's start -- because not everybody knows your story -- so let's start in Arkansas. That's where you start. You give us this very delightful and somewhat difficult glimpse into your family. Okay? And, by the way, you wrote a really interesting statement, I thought, about your family. It applies to all of our families.
Beth Moore: Okay. All right, because I want to say this to somebody, because most of the people that I've served since I moved to Texas in the middle of high school, they think of me as a Texan. And I am! I love being a Texan, but when you're in a family with a husband who is native born, even in Houston, and then two daughters, and then I'm surrounded by people that -- really you have to be born here to be considered what they think is a true Texan. So I would still tell you -- and I know this sounds so weird -- but I still to this day, because my roots are so deep in the soil of Arkansas, I will still tell you that I think and reason in many ways like an Arkansan more than a Texan. So to say that, let me take you back a little ways. I was raised on a hill -- the early part of my life -- on a hill right outside Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, a college town, about an hour from Little Rock. And I was raised on that hill until I was about seven, and then we moved in town. But I was raised in a family of eight. So I have four brothers and sisters, my parents and then my grandmother -- who you referenced a little earlier in the podcast -- she lived with us.
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