Ep 3: Walking Through Your Valley
03/02/19 • 27 min
How do you live in a season where you can’t see the path in front of you? How do you overcome when mountainous burdens suddenly crash upon your soul like a tsunami, sweeping you out to (what appears to be) an endless ocean of winter?
What does it look like to give up your dream only to land in your darkest valley? Or to have ovarian cancer and have a baby in one fell swoop? And where might the critical tools or desperate encouragement be found in times when life’s crisis blinds you with the darkness of overwhelming struggles and sheer survival?
Listen in as Tammy and Amy share about giving up dreams and fighting for the lives that they never imagined they’d have to surrender. Join them as they talk about the hard moments, what exactly they learned, how it changed them, and what they could see (looking back) once they reached the other side.
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Tammy's Website: http://thmeyerauthor.com/
Amy's Website http://belovedinbluejeans.com/
Resources:
- Where Amy’s poem “I Am a Cancer Patient” can be found: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book.
- Tammy’s resources for struggling during one of her biggest valleys, The Pursuit of God, by AW Tozer and The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship, by AW Tozer
How do you live in a season where you can’t see the path in front of you? How do you overcome when mountainous burdens suddenly crash upon your soul like a tsunami, sweeping you out to (what appears to be) an endless ocean of winter?
What does it look like to give up your dream only to land in your darkest valley? Or to have ovarian cancer and have a baby in one fell swoop? And where might the critical tools or desperate encouragement be found in times when life’s crisis blinds you with the darkness of overwhelming struggles and sheer survival?
Listen in as Tammy and Amy share about giving up dreams and fighting for the lives that they never imagined they’d have to surrender. Join them as they talk about the hard moments, what exactly they learned, how it changed them, and what they could see (looking back) once they reached the other side.
Episodes also air every Thursday at 12:30pm CST on Graceandtruthradio.world
If you enjoyed one of our shows, please help us with the algorithms so others can find us, by leaving a review on iTunes here.
Tammy's Website: http://thmeyerauthor.com/
Amy's Website http://belovedinbluejeans.com/
Resources:
- Where Amy’s poem “I Am a Cancer Patient” can be found: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book.
- Tammy’s resources for struggling during one of her biggest valleys, The Pursuit of God, by AW Tozer and The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship, by AW Tozer
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Ep 2: Getting Started
Getting started is not based on how “good” you are or how young you are or how wise you are (although, that definitely helps). It is not even based on how able you are. When God calls you to start, He takes you just as you are, right now. You don’t have to wait for that “magical” time whether it be January or a Monday or some other fairy-tale hour. You do not even have to be comfortable. In fact, what you’re planning on doing might seem near impossible. Most times, getting started on something entirely new will stretch you.
Listen in on how Amy moved past her negative self-labels to finally do the one thing she challenged herself in 2019. And learn about Tammy’s realization that God was asking her to revisit something she’d long ago given up. And hear how your own purpose does not expire with God but how it also does not always fit into our neat-n-tidy timelines.
Episodes also air every Thursday at 12:30pm CST on Graceandtruthradio.world
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Tammy's Website: http://thmeyerauthor.com/
Amy's Website http://belovedinbluejeans.com/
Resources:
- The Dream of You: Let Go of Broken Identities and Live the Life You Were Made For, by Jo Saxton
- The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
- Beat Imposter Syndrome How to stand firm in who God says you are when you feel like a phony
- Amy’s running plan: Go from 0 to half-marathon in 19 weeks: https://www.rundisney.com/running-training-programs
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Episode 4: The Benefits of Waiting
Have you ever found yourself in a waiting period that seems to go on forever? A time where you feel like a toddler in the backseat of a car asking, “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” This stage of winter can feel a lot like that.
Waiting has a way of stripping our identity down to us and God–alone. It can be a time of giving ourselves permission to grieve a loss or change. We don’t usually volunteer to wait–especially when that time overextends its stay in our life. But we can find this season allows for rest. We don’t control the time frame. However, we can choose to live in the right now’s of our season.
Listen in as Amy talks about shifting identities in her transition of adult children and the awkward dance of rediscovering her role as a Mom, a wife, and a woman. And hear how Tammy realized the importance (and vanity) of her address when her family moved into a “shack” on their farm and it was a catalyst in finding her true identity in Christ.
Episodes also air on the radio every Thursday at 12:30pm CST on Graceandtruthradio.world
If you enjoyed one of our shows, please help us with the algorithms so others can find us, by leaving a review on iTunes here.
Tammy's Website: http://thmeyerauthor.com/
Amy's Website http://belovedinbluejeans.com/
Resources:
- Writing was therapeutic during Tammy’s waiting season and here are 8 Additional Things She Learned While Writing Her First Book.
- World’s Best Granola Salmon Pizza Rustic Tortellini Soup Chicken Pad Thai Healthy Parmesan Wings Apple Brownies Peaches and Heirloom Tomatoes
- Amy often shares recipes in her newsletter! You can sign up HERE.
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