1KHO 938: The Hurt Isn't The End Of Your Story | Stasi Eldredge, The Ladder of Love

Ginny Yurich (0:00)

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I'm the founder of 1000Hours. I don't even know what I normally say. I always say the same thing, and I just forgot it. Anyway, I am so excited to be talking to Stasi Eldredge today. She has a brand new book out called The Ladder of Love. I read it twice because I read it once through, and then I read it to take notes. And I loved it even more the second time through. Normally, I'm just kind of like ho-humming it. But I was like, oh, this book is so meaningful to me. Stasi, welcome to you.

Stasi Eldredge (2:27)

Thank you, Ginny. Thanks for that. I'm so glad that that was your experience. And I'm so happy to be with you today. Thank you for having me.

Ginny Yurich (2:35)

Yes, you are a New York Times bestselling author. What an incredible accomplishment. You've encouraged millions of women through the years, and you have your own podcast as well. Could you talk about becoming a woman of influence like that before we kick it off? I know you've got three grown sons. You talk in this book about how everyone's coming over for dinner. And most of the time, it's great. But every once in a while, you're like, oh my goodness, because everyone's got food preferences these days. So you're like, okay, what's in coconut-free, gluten, dairy, this one's vegetarian. But at some point along the way you have, along with raising these boys, you have become this woman who's influencing so many. What was that path like?

Stasi Eldredge (3:16)

I think like everyone that is listening, you don't know the impact of your life in the moment. You just don't. And the impact that you are having is immeasurable. Of course, first in your family and in your home, the changing of those lives and the impact that just ripples out through eternity. But people are always watching. You don't know how they're watching, whether that's at the grocery store or watching how you drive or watching how you parent, how you respond, watching your marriage, watching your friendship. They're watching. So I kind of think, actually I know, that everyone is a person of influence and it's just, it's happening. And we never can measure it. To this day, like I'll read stats, I go, oh wow, but I don't see it, I don't get it. So for me, the journey is one of just day by day, personal growth, kind of keeping a thread of what I love to do throughout those years, where my life was primarily hidden, just hidden in the home and you can start feeling like you're missed and everybody else's trains left the station and you're still there, but it's just not true. And I love, I get to chance to speak and to teach around, but the first time I did was I was invited to give a little five minute devotional at a baby shower.