Eyres on the Road

(Rerun of 10/07/23) The Eyre's will be back on a normal schedule next week! Here is a episode from 2023. The Eyres continue their 3-letter lesson series (which will become a hybrid book) with INC which is not a corporation but an abbreviation for Inclusive which is what the world needs now and the opposite of the exclusive, divisive, polarizing attitudes that dominate our politics and our news and...

The Eyres come to us today from the Alps of Switzerland where they are participating in a Forum created by their son Tal on "Inner Landscapes" and the re-ordering of our lives. Eyre daughters Saren, Shawni, and Saydi are also speakers at the Forum, having just arrived from a mother's retreat with Linda and their other sister and sisters-in-law in the Balkans.

Linda is in Montenegro, on an outing with her four daughters and four daughters-in-law, so Richard took the opportunity in this episode to have a visit with the Eyres' "Bulgarian daughter" the famous photographer and artist Eva Timothy. Tune in as they discuss their relationship and their collaboration on the new book Beholding the Restored Gospel through a Familycentric Lens.

In this episode the Eyres try to finish what they started in the previous episode--fleshing in the connections between attitudes of Gratitude, Generosity and Stewardship and how they are all facilitated by humility, or as scriptures call it "nothingness". There are great scriptural promises to families when parents are able to "remember the greatness of God and their own nothingness."

Today the Eyres lead us on a deep dive into Thankfulness and Gratitude and what they can lead to. With Fall and the Thanksgiving season approaching, we can explore the connections between gratitude and happiness, and can find the circular relationship of the four complementing gifts and paradigms of gratitude, generosity, stewardship and humility or "nothingness."

Today, after some banter about New York and Tennis and Grandkids, Richard and Linda dive into a discussion about two opposite mentalities: The win-lose, opposition and competition based "versus thinking" and the win-win, cooperation and synergistic "ampersand thinking." It is a comparison that is relevant in thinking about politics, about society, and about relationships.

The advance copies of the Eyre's new book arrived today, so they share their feelings about it in this episode and focus on the inclusivity and comfort that comes in thinking of God as a literal Heavenly Father and viewing all humans as our spiritual siblings. The connecting areal roots of Banyan trees or the intertwined roots of Aspen trees are a metaphor of how we are all connected.

Continuing their preview of their forthcoming book FAMILYCENTRIC, Richard and Linda, after offering some thoughts on the movie they saw the night before, focus on a list of the dramatic changes that come over someone who has a paradigm shift and progresses from believing in the divine only as a creator and a power to believing in God as our literal Spiritual Father.

In this episode, Linda and Richard do some reflecting and pose the question "Who are our people?" and explore the many ways, micro and macro, that it can be answered. They pay tribute to podcast listeners who are "their people" in terms of having read their books and raised their children "together." Then they pose the question "WHERE do you want to be in three years?"

In their "Familycentric" series, the Eyres continue to explore the benefits of viewing the world through a family-focused lens, and tell stories illustrating the world-wide phenomenon of people feeling deja-vu and the sense that they lived in some form of existence before being born on this earth. When this notion takes on a family perspective, it leads to a belief in a parental God who made this...

In this episode the Eyres continue their preview of their forthcoming book FAMILYCENTRIC and tackle a question that many people of faith wrestle with, namely "Does the Family support the Church or does the Church support the family? Which is eternal? Which is the means and which is the end? Getting those questions right can change everything.

The Eyre's will be back on a normal schedule next week! (Re-run from 07/28/2022) This episode is devoted to vision, dreams, and the ENDS that we want to work toward in our lives. The Eyre's begin with some final end-notes on their Family Reunion that has just concluded and then move to their three-letter lesson series where END becomes the focus, along with the MEANS or plans that get us to our de...

In this episode the Eyres dive deep into the first essay in their forthcoming Familycentric book, and talk about often the lens we are looking through affects what we see as much as the thing we are looking at. They claim that an inclusive family-focused lens allows us to make more sense not only of our homes but of our Church.

In today's show, the Eyres express their desire to give the essence of their new book to podcast listeners before the book's release in the Fall. Sometimes the "lens" through which we view something determines what we see more than the actual thing we are looking at. Viewing God as a parent--as two Parents actually, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother, changes how the whole Gospel looks and ho...

The Eyres start the show with a question they have asked themselves: "Of all of our books, which one do we hope our great great great great great grandchildren will read?" The answer is their new book that releases this Fall, called FAMILYCENTRIC, which looks at the Restored Gospel through a family-centric lens and helps us know WHY we must RAISE our children.

Serendipity (finding things better than that which we were seeking) is easiest to recognize in hindsight. Today the Eyres tell the story of their gathering place at Bear Lake and how, with hindsight, it came about through a string of serendipities. Then they talk about how life unfolds and how God always says "yes" unless He has something better in mind.

The Eyre's had a grandson return home from his mission today! They will resume their regular schedule next week. (Rerun, 06/07/25) In this episode, the Eyres apply the sports or music term "score" to life and to its phases. They make the point that most of us have stewardship both over family members in their childhood and family members in their seniorhood, and that the two are both overwhelmingl...

Today the Eyres are reflecting on the past, present, and future of their lives and trying to explain the "eternal, inclusive, familycentric lens" through which they try to view both their own lives and the Gospel. They discuss their forthcoming book Beholding the Restored Gospel through a Familycentric Lens that they are writing with their Bulgarian Daughter Eva and her husband Adam.

In this episode, the Eyres do a deep dive into the realities of three generation families and the power and influence grandparents can have. They read some amusing quotes from their new book The Grandparenting Blueprint and extend a gift of a 40% discount on the book to Podcast listeners. Simply go to familius.com/eyre/ and use the coupon code EYREFRIEND.

Today Richard and Linda are at Bear Lake in Idaho getting ready for their annual family reunion and they reflect on how a "second place" or retreat...whether it is a campsite, a small second home, a favorite national park... can give the change of perspective and the freedom from distractions that allows us to re-evaluate and see things more clearly both as families and as individuals.

Many listeners know of the Eyres' daughter Shawni Pothier, former national young mother of the year, host of the famous blog 71toes.com, founder of the podcast In the Arena with the Eyre Sisters, mother of 5 and grandmother of 2 (She made Richard and Linda great-grandparents). This episode is a little three way discussion between Shawni, Richard, and Linda about three-generation families and empty...

The Eyres are currently involved in planning a 50th Anniversary Reunion for the 600 missionaries they led and served back in the Seventies in London England, and in this episode they talk about this phenomenon of young 18 and 19 year olds who leave home to serve and give (and preach) in some part of the world for 18 months or 2 years, and about how it matures and prepares them for life.

Today the Eyres are with their middle son Tal in his home is Switzerland and talk with him about the dramatic differences in Swiss and American cultures and about the stunning Swiss landscape and the metaphors it holds for the ever-changing but always beautiful "inner landscapes" of families as kids grow up and grandparents become involved, and three-generation families emerge and thrive amidst al...

In their ongoing effort to acquaint listeners and followers more intimately with each of their children, Richard and Linda today interview their youngest son Eli from his home on the upper West Side of New York City. The Eyres are there for Linda's birthday and for grandson Dean's birthday, and they ask Eli about the Art of Living with Kids in the City, the Art of Adaptability as two-career couple...

The Eyres are in Switzerland visiting their son Tal, and staying in his 'hut" high in the Alps as they do today's podcast and talk about finding the sequence or "flow" of personal morning prayer that opens the heart and spirit to God's will. They follow up on the last two podcasts by putting the entire sequence into 8 modules, each of which begins with "R" and has seven letters.