I am so excited to launch my new podcast, Even If! This has been a dream for years and I’m so excited it’s finally coming to life. Episodes will be new every Tuesday and I’d love for you to listen in on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
For many of us, life hasn’t gone according to plan. Some of us are in waiting seasons that just keep dragging on - waiting on proposals and paychecks and positive pregnancy tests, we’re waiting on healing and friendship and relief. Some of us are marked by deep loss - we’ve lost babies and parents and husbands and friends and we’ve said goodbye to dreams that will never be fulfilled here on earth. If we’re honest, most of us have stood in the tension of What Is and What We Imagined Would Be and we’ve been faced with the choice to choose hope or despair.
Over the last several years, my own life has held unimaginable pain and grief. And I’ve come to redefine hope in circumstances that I never would have chosen. Hope isn’t so much the assurance that our circumstance will change, but the belief that it can, and the confident expectation that God is moving even if it doesn’t.
We all find ourselves in those “even if” moments in life, the moments where our circumstance looks nothing like we would have wanted and God doesn’t appear to be at work. When life is shaking all around us and we’re so tempted to give in or give up and our faith is ready to give out.
But there’s a strength available to us even here.
And together on this podcast, we’re navigating these seasons of life learning how to stand firm when life is shaking, and with resolve in our hearts and sometimes with a quiver in our voice, boldly declare God’s goodness in our lives…Even If.