In this episode, Marnie and Jennifer Dukes Lee kick off a new season with a conversation that’s packed with goodness. We talk about the peace that comes in asking questions of ourselves and God, and how we can listen for and learn from Him inside those questions. And we discuss how our springs and summers and falls and winters all hold purpose and growth, even when we can’t see it. When we unhurry our hearts and open our ears, we can learn and grow in all of them.
Marnie and Jennifer discuss:
- How (our shared) background in journalism began a practice of asking questions and listening.
- How looking at the way Jesus asked questions offers evidence that our own questions can move us closer to God.
- How listening for Him can bring peace, even in situations we don’t choose.
- A single sentence that changed Jennifer’s perspective on how she listens for Jesus in the most ordinary places.
- How to come out of “hurry sickness” and how unhurrying our hearts can help to open our ears.
- The importance of all of the different seasons of our lives and how every season holds purpose, growth and opportunities to listen for Jesus.
Jennifer Dukes Lee is the bestselling author of several books, including
Growing Slow,
It’s All Under Control, and
Stuff I’d Only Tell God. She’s a fan of queso, bright lipstick, and singing too loudly to songs with great harmony. She lives on a fifth-generation family farm in Iowa, where she and her husband have made a life of growing crops, pigs, two beautiful humans, and an enduring faith. You can find Jennifer on
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