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Welcome to From My Father podcast.
I'm your host, Tangie Callahan, and I'm so grateful you're here.
My prayer is that every conversation points you to the heart of the Father, reminding you that every good and perfect gift comes from Him.
or taking some quiet time for yourself, I pray you leave every episode knowing Him more and experiencing His love in a deeper way.
Now take off your shoes and stay a while.
Let's get started.
Hello, friends, and welcome to From My Father podcast.
I am so excited today because I feel like with some listener questions that have been written in and asked, this may help some of you guys in the season that you're in.
If I could title this, I would call it, When Life Changes, You Don't Have To.
And you know I always like to start off with a burden and a blessing.
My burden would be today is that I am super tired.
I feel like this season of my life I have done nothing but run, run, run.
But the blessing in that is that my little girl is married.
And she's married.
She married the love of her life and everything was beautiful.
And so, so many blessings in this season.
But I want to talk to you today about when life changes, you don't have to.
My children, I want to always just start there.
What got me thinking about this episode is all of the changes that have taken place since 2022.
In 2022, Rhalyn and Micah got married.
In 2025, Ethan and Morgan got married.
In 2026, Addie and Caleb got married in March.
And in September of 2026, Payten and Eli got married.
And that just happened.
And I'm so thrilled for them.
But it has also been several years of exhaustion and just trying to navigate all the changes that
And there's a song that has gotten me through.
I wanted to say there's one song, but there's been several worship songs.
But I'm going to particularly talk about this one.
It's called Through It All.
It's by Andre Crouch.
And I think I mentioned this before, but it is an incredible song.
Its lyrics go like this.
I've had many tears and sorrows.
I've had questions for tomorrow.
There's been times that I didn't know right from wrong, but in every situation, God gave me blessed consolation that my trials come to only make me strong.
And the core says, through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus.
I've learned to trust in God.
Through it all, through it all, I've learned to depend upon His Word.
I love that song because
There's been so many times in this season that I didn't know what was right from wrong.
I mean, making decisions and planning and wedding dress shopping and dresses aren't cheap and getting all the things, all the decorations and all the running and going and meetings.
And I've got to meet with this stylist.
I've got to meet with this food company.
I've got to do all these things.
I'm talking about years of doing this, guys.
And you feel emotionally, physically, financially drained.
And sometimes the only thing that gets you through is literally that few minutes in the morning when you can just sit and open the Word of God and let the Word of God breathe on you.
And that's what's happened.
This song, Through It All, has gotten me.
I'll just be riding in my car and listening to Andre worship or whoever's singing it.
CeCe Winans has a version as well.
But Through It All.
Through it all, God has you.
And so I don't know if this is resonating with you, but if you were in a season where you feel like there's a ton of change, you don't know how to handle it.
You see the blessing in it, but it still can cause grieving because it's changing, right?
Life constantly changes.
And learning to get through it and learning how to adjust who I am through all of the seasons is a huge thing if you can ever learn to do that.
So I want to talk to you today just about some practical things that have helped me through all of the changes.
You know, sometimes roles we carry for years begin to look completely different.
I have been in a role
How old is my son?
26 years old.
For 26 years, the mama role and trying to navigate, you know, raising my kids and doing all the motherhood things.
That's all I've done.
I've had, you know, I've had ministry as well, but my main ministry was my kids and still is, but it looks different now.
And so I remember one day the Holy Spirit said to me, he said, Tangie, your roles in life will always change, but your identity will never change.
He said, the roles in your life will always change, but your identity will never change.
Who am I?
This is some of the questions that I've had to ask over this last several years.
Who am I when I'm not needed in the same way anymore?
Maybe that's you.
Who am I when I'm not needed in the same way?
My identity doesn't change.
My roles will, though.
And I think you have to come to that
you know, understanding that every season it can, you can be in the, like the hardest season of your life, raising toddlers right now.
And you're thinking, when is my season going to change?
Well, guess what?
Don't blink because it will blink.
It
Um, is going to look different.
Like I remember when Archie and I first got married and I was just a wife, it looked way different than all of a sudden in 1999 when my son was born.
And then 18 months later when my daughter was born, and so on and so forth, my second daughter, my third child, and then my fourth child, my last baby girl, Pay, it's like every, I can look back at every single season
I had a miscarriage between Adelyn and Payten, and I struggled with who was I there?
Because God, you know, I'm supposed to have this baby, and I didn't have this baby.
So now who am I?
Am I still a believer?
I questioned if I even believed in God.
I questioned.
I had so much fear during that time that I literally would stand in my kitchen, and it felt like God was nowhere near me.
It felt like that I was in such isolation that I questioned everything that I had ever believed.
And so seasons continually change.
I'll talk more about that maybe another time.
But how many of you know that there is a reason for everything?
And there's a season for everything.
Ecclesiastes 3.1 says that there's a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.
God designed your life with seasons.
Something changing doesn't mean that something has gone wrong.
Listen, we pray for our kids to find the perfect spouse.
I've been praying over my kids' spouses since they were little itty-bitty toddlers.
And yes, they grow up.
And when you finally begin to see the prayers fulfilled and the promises fulfilled...
man, all of a sudden that ache on the inside that appears from nowhere, like, I've been raising you to do all of these things, and now you're just, you are these things.
And it happens overnight, it seems like.
That's why I said, don't blink, because it's going to happen to you.
And with all of the changes, just know that there is a season for everything.
I can be grateful for what was, grieve what's different, and still embrace what God is doing now.
I'm going to say that again.
I can be grateful for what was.
I can grieve what's different.
And I can embrace what God is doing now.
In fact, what I have been doing is really trying to get out my feelings with all of the changes.
All of my kids being married off and all of the new things.
I've been really trying to...
journal my grievances, like if that's the right word, just journaling the things that I'm going to mourn because it helps me.
And then I write down the things that I'm grateful for.
I'm so grateful that all of my kids have a godly, called,
I mean, passionate love for the Lord.
All of my kids married someone who loves the Lord with all of their heart.
They have callings on their life.
They have a purpose.
God has a plan for all of them.
There's no telling what God will do with our kids.
So I don't want you to sit on the other side of this and think, is she sad about her kids getting married?
Is she sad about, you know,
I'm not sad.
It's just change.
And I think we always grieve change.
I love every single one of them.
I love all of my son-in-laws and I love my precious daughter-in-law.
And the thing about it is God gives you grace for every season and every moment.
Ephesians 2.10 says, for we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Notice the order of the scripture.
I am his handiwork before I do his work.
What I do flows from who I am.
What I do does not determine who I am.
So with all of the changes, with all of the things that are changing, it's almost like God is giving me a newness of what is coming to my life.
I do believe that new things are coming.
My season looks different.
I think new things are coming to my marriage.
We are empty nesters now.
We have just little Cubby at the house.
And
I don't know.
It feels different.
Some nights it feels awkward, you know, but and you miss all the little noises.
You miss the sink being full of dishes.
You miss, you know, extra clothes that you have to fold and, you know, all of the things.
Right.
But there's newness everywhere.
I am his handiwork.
In other words, my role looks different now, but my identity doesn't.
I am still his and God is still working in me.
Number three, my true identity is a daughter.
I am a daughter of the king.
And every good and perfect gift comes from my father.
So every time I think about like how I could wallow in the grief of all the changes, my father reminds me that he's been so good, so faithful to my family.
And he's been so faithful to you.
And he always brings me to the place.
Tangie, there's newness to come.
There is newness to come.
The old is gone.
The old is gone.
Behold, all things are new.
Just like if any man be in Christ.
He is a new creation, right?
Well, this is a new creative time that God is working in my life and he's working in your life.
I don't know if you're in a season, right?
Maybe where you feel like there's a lot of changes going on.
I don't know how to handle it all.
I can tell you that you're a daughter of the King and he has you in the palm of his hand and he's working all things out for your good.
Romans 8, 28.
You are his daughter.
My identity is secure in Christ.
My identity isn't hidden in motherhood.
It's not hidden in marriage.
It's not hidden in ministry.
It's not hidden in what I've done, all of my accomplishments, all of those things.
My identity and my life is hidden in Christ.
So every time my role changes, my identity stays secure.
Isn't that so good?
It is so good to know that my life is hidden in Christ.
So with every change, with everything that I go through,
Every time I'm grieving an old season, I know that God has me and He's covering me and He's already in the next season waiting for me.
Isn't that so good?
I love it.
Isaiah 43, 18 and 19.
Forget the former things.
Do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing.
Now it springs up.
Do you perceive it?
A changing role is not an end of purpose.
I wanna say that again.
A changing role is not the end of purpose.
Your role may look different in the season that you are in right now, but it does not mean by no means that your purpose is changing.
God still has an incredible purpose for you.
And in fact, he's creating something new in this season.
Sometimes we become so focused on who we used to be that we miss who God is inviting us to be.
I want to encourage you that in this season, embrace the new.
Things look so much different now.
But you know what?
One of the most incredible things is when God created grandchildren.
I am telling you, my grandbabies...
I could eat them up.
I don't get enough time with them.
And I crave more time with them.
That is one of my favorite things in this season that was new to me that I'd heard people talk about, but I had never experienced.
And God has allowed me to experience it.
And I know more are to come.
And I can't wait to eat them up and spoil them and do all the grandma things, the tanny things.
And I just want to encourage you that there is something special about this season.
You know, you're either coming out of a storm, you're in the middle of a storm, or you're getting ready to go into a storm.
Life is always changing.
Life is always lifing.
Embrace the season that you're in, even though it looks different.
Embrace it because God has something awesome for you.
Life will change.
My roles will change.
My responsibilities will change.
The people I love will grow and change.
Some of you are dealing with lost relationships.
Some of you are dealing with friendships that maybe have left your life.
Can I tell you today that it's not the end of the world, that God is a God of newness.
And when you think that there can be no one else, I'm telling you, God can bring you a new friend.
God can bring the right people to your life.
And I'm declaring that over you today.
There will be seasons that I step into and seasons that I have to release.
But I don't have to be afraid of losing myself when a season ends because my deepest identity was never found in the season.
I am His.
I'm so thankful today that God is a God of new seasons.
It's a new season.
It's a new day.
And I want you to embrace the new season today.
that maybe God has you in.
I'm embracing it for me, and I would encourage you to do the same.
I want to end by taking a listener question because it goes right along with what we've been talking about today.
And this is from Taylor, and she says, I feel like God is closing a chapter of my life that I'm really not ready to let go of.
How do I trust God
when I like the life that I had.
Well, Taylor, I would say to you simply to trust His Word.
Proverbs 3, 5, and 6 says, "'Trust in the Lord with all your heart.'"
Not some of your heart, all your heart, with everything on the inside of you.
"'Trust the Lord with all your heart.
"'Lean not onto your own understanding.'"
What is my own understanding?
Trying to search, trying to figure out how you're going to make it work, trying to use your own strength to come up with the remedy of what you're going through and all of these things.
It says, lean not onto your own understanding, but in all your ways, every part of your being, every part, in all your ways,
Lean in to what God has.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Lean not onto your own understanding.
In all your ways, acknowledge Him.
And what does it say He will do?
He will direct your path.
He will be a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path.
I would encourage you, Taylor, to lean on God like never before.
You're in a season where you're having to let go.
that you really loved and you really enjoyed.
And I can relate to that.
But trust God that he has your next season and that he's already gone before you and he's there.
Amen.
I want to pray with you today and just encourage you, don't give up in this season.
Father, I thank you for your word today.
I thank you for who you are.
You're a God who knows every season, every in and out of our lives.
Lord, you know the beginning.
You know the ending.
You know, God, the closing of a chapter.
You know when the new chapter is going to start.
God, I pray for strength today for those that are dealing with a season that is closing or maybe a relationship that...
has drifted apart, maybe friendship that has been broken, Lord.
I pray, God, first of all, that you would minister to the broken hearts today.
And secondly, I pray, God, that this new place, this new season, you would make known to every woman, to every man listening, God, you are there with them, God, and you are making this new season known to them.
We give you all glory and honor in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thank you guys for tuning in today.
I've truly enjoyed it, and I can't wait to see you next time.
Thanks for joining me for today's episode of From My Father.
I encourage you to every day ask the Father, what is it that you want me to receive from you today?
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That's all for today, friends.
Until next time, keep leaning in to the Father's voice.