God Hears Her Podcast

How often do you feel stressed? Frustrated? Overwhelmed? Do you feel those ways more often than you feel at peace? This world is filled with events and people that can make us feel far from peaceful. On this episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa talk to Kay Wills Wyma about feeling the real, full peace that God grants us when we lean into Him.

About Our Guest:

Kay Wills Wyma is a blogger, speaker, video podcaster, and mother of five. Kay writes on cultural and societal issues that impact family and friends. She is an author of four books, including The Peace Project: A 30-Day Experiment Practicing Thankfulness, Kindness, and Mercy where she leads readers through 30-days of finding and feeling peace. She’s also a former White House aide, International Capital Markets banker, and entrepreneur.

Notes and Quotes:

• “To just slow down for a second and really enjoy the people that walk beside you is such a gift.”
• “Friendships are giving relationships also.”
• “I grew up in the South, so there became this strange relationship with Jesus because I had to ‘do and be’ to be okay.”
• “It’s easier in the hard times than the good times. In the hard times you’ve got nothing.”
• Soul30: Practice finding moments of peace every day for 30 days.
• “Why does being thankful feel good? Because it is literally firing parts of your brain that deliver dopamine and endorphins.”
• “You have neural pathways in your brain that are highly traveled pathways, and they tend to go along the lines of fear, anxiety, worry. What if you can change the routes?”
• “You can actually change the pathways in your brain so that peace is where you are going instead of anxiety.”
• “He says: ‘I keep in perfect peace those whose minds are fixed on me.’”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
• Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.
• Check out Kay Wills Wyma’s blog: http://www.themoatblog.com/
• Purchase The Peace Project: A 30-Day Experiment Practicing Thankfulness, Kindness, and Mercy https://amzn.to/3mvkK4p
• Elisa’s Instagram: @elisamorganauthor
• Eryn’s Instagram: @eryneddy

We all experience life-defining moments. Some of those moments can be good and life-changing while other moments are not so good. What happens when we allow those not-so-good moments to negatively define our identities? In this “best of” episode of God Hears Her, Elisa and Eryn revisit their conversation with speaker and best-selling author Laura Smith as she shares ways in which we can learn to overcome the lies that we’ve believed and focus on God’s life-changing and freeing truth.

About our guest:

Laura Smith is an avid storyteller through her books, blog posts, and public speaking. Her recent book How Sweet the Sound focuses on the beauty and truth that come from Scripture-inspired hymns. Along with being a wife and mom, Laura’s hope is to use her writing and public speaking to help others discover the identity that God has instilled in each of us.

Notes and Quotes:

• “I think it’s so interesting how, you know, you can grow up thinking one way about your family life, and then you step into this awareness of what it really is.”
• “He loves us for exactly who we are, because He created us in His image—because He created us!”
• “In college, I had my Bible. I would read it every day, then I would put it under my pillow and go do whatever the heck I wanted. I believed in God, and I loved him, but I didn’t live like it.”
• “It was some sort of lie that I started to believe when I was younger, that if I do these things, then ‘this’ will make ‘this’ true.”
• “I am trying to honor the fact that forgiveness and trust are not the same thing.”
• “I can forgive [my dad] and be kind to him, but I don’t have to trust him and let him into my safe spaces.”
• “We tend to think that when we come to know Jesus that everything is just ‘BING’ and resolved and wrapped up in this box with a pretty bow on it. And real life is often: God promises and does meet the desires of our hearts. Sometimes it’s now, sometimes it’s later, sometimes it’s not really in this lifetime.”
• Three resounding themes: God is almighty. He loves us unconditionally. He will never leave us.
• “So many of us want to throw out the pain in our lives; the hardness of our lives; the embarrassing, depleting, revealing in our lives; and think, ‘Okay, now God can come in, and now He can do something with me.’”
• “God planted good in the soil of your pain.”
• “We have to really focus on who we are listening to for our identity.”
• Three ways to stay in the truth that God created me as a masterpiece: Read the Bible every day; pray every day “Who do you see me as?”; hang out with core people you can trust and confide in.

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

• Show Notes on godhearsher.org
• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
• Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon. https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
• Order Laura Smith’s book How Sweet the Sound: https://amzn.to/36wMRqp
• Laura's Instagram: laurasmithauthor
• Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

Verses Mentioned in Show:

• Ephesians 2:10 NIV “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202%3A10&version=NIV

When you were a kid, how did you feel about your hometown? Did you stay in the same area? Or move around to different places? Growing up involved a lot of transitions and questions of identity for missionary kid Jennie Clevenger. Join Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy in a conversation with Jennie Clevenger as she shares about her past and how it has shaped her life now on this episode of God Hears Her.

About Our Guest:

Jennie Clevenger grew up in Guyana, South America as a missionary kid and is still involved in ministry there to this day. She currently works as a RN at a COVID-19 testing and vaccination center. Jennie’s hope is that her efforts there with her wonderful coworkers will encourage and support the community in any way possible. She is passionate about listening to —and sometimes even butting into—any discussion involving women in the church! She feels a sense of urgency to learn more, read more, and discuss more about the importance of lifting women up in their homes, communities, and the life of the church. She has been married to her husband, Ryan, for thirteen years and they have four beautiful girls. The three oldest are adopted from Guyana.

Notes and Quotes:

• When our souls get seared that carries with us. —Elisa Morgan
• Adoption is not about saving the world, it’s about being a parent to a child who doesn’t have a parent to love them. —Jennie Clevenger
• I am called to care for people. —Jennie Clevenger
• You are in this world, not of it. —Jennie Clevenger
• God gives us the gift of community. —Jennie Clevenger
• It is strength to acknowledge you are struggling. —Jennie Clevenger

Verses:

• John 12:25
• Genesis 1:27

Links:

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
• God Hears Her newsletter sign-up: https://www.godhearsher.org/signup
• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
• Elisa’s Instagram: elisa morgan author
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

Does God have someone for me? It’s a question everyone wonders at some point or another, especially in a culture that suggests romantic relationships are the norm. Join Elisa and Eryn as they dive deep into their struggles with loneliness and healing after relationship loss, as well as discuss a unique and important twist on this popular question.

Notes and Quotes:

• “I don’t see myself the way God sees me. I was seeing myself through the lens of the person I was dating.”
• We are made for relationships and connection.
• “I think what I am learning in this whole journey of being single after being married is that I just desire to become the person I am meant to be.”
• “I was seeking relationships to fill voids that only God could fill.”
• “When you are single, there is so much work to be done because our identities have been formed in relationship to others.”
• “Relationships define so much around us.”
• “I think God has a lot of people for us. I think marriage is one thing, and it is an important thing. But I also think the reality is we are humans, and our relationships that can be fully satisfying can function a little bit like an island of intimacy.”
• “Until we let God love us, we can’t love ourselves. And until we love ourselves, we can not love another.”
• We ask the question if God has anyone for us. Well, He has Himself for us. And yes, He invites us into relationships.
• In seasons of singleness, we have time to show up and be present for the loved ones we have around us. Be careful not to overlook that.
• “Flip the question and instead of asking if God has anyone for us, ask ‘Can I be someone for God?’”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned In Show:

• Show Notes on godhearsher.org
• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
• Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon. https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
• Free eBooklet to Download: Divorce and Remarriage: What Does the Bible Teach? https://discoveryseries.org/courses/divorce-and-remarriage/
• Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy
• Listen to the song “Pieces” by Amanda Cook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FW--zidYA

What comes to mind when you think about “Spiritual Disciplines”? Do you think about taking a Sabbath? Or participating in a fast? On this episode of God Hears Her, hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy talk with Dr. Alicia Britt Chole about how living devoted to God through practicing spiritual disciplines can change your life.

About Our Guest:

Dr. Alicia is a speaker, leadership mentor, and award-winning writer who uses realism and hope to focus on less-than-trendy topics like spiritual pain, decrease as a discipline, the leader’s soul, and the potential of anonymous years. She’s been married to her husband for 32 years, and together they have three amazing children all through the miracle of adoption!

Notes and Quotes:

• “Pain became a companion rather than a season.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
• “The gifts God gives us are from the beginning.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
• “There is more going on than our eyes can see.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
• “Fasting is a relational commitment.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
• “Fasting is a voluntary abstinence for the love of God.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
• “The more we lean [on Jesus] the more we love, and the more we learn.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
• “Change is found in the small.” —Dr. Alicia Britt Chole

Verses:

• 1 Thessalonians 5:17
• Isaiah 58:3–7
• John 13:23

Links:

• God Hears Her website: www.godhearsher.org
• God Hears Her newsletter sign-up: https://www.godhearsher.org/signup
• Dr. Alicia Britt Chole website: https://aliciachole.com/about/
• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
• Elisa’s Instagram: elisa morgan author
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy
• Dr. Alicia Britt Chole Instagram: aliciabrittchole