60. What If God Is Forming You While You Wait? With Jessica L. Morris

What if the season you keep calling “waiting” is actually a season of becoming?

In this episode of Not Just Waiting, I’m joined by writer and spiritual director Jessica L. Morris for a deeply honest conversation about recovery, identity, disappointment, calling, and learning to trust God when life doesn’t look the way we thought it would.

Jessica shares how growing up in a family impacted by alcoholism shaped the way she understood God, how recovery changed the trajectory of her life, and how seminary helped her begin to see God—and herself—in a completely different way.

We talk about:

• What God may be forming in us during seasons that feel ordinary or stuck
• Releasing the identity and expectations we thought would define us
• Learning to let God determine our identity instead of our past, circumstances, or other people
• Why the stories of people like Abraham and Moses remind us that God’s work often takes much longer than we realize
• The difference between doing our part and trying to control the outcome
• What it looks like to surrender our timelines and trust God with what comes next
• Finding Christ in the middle of complicated faith stories
• Why waiting can be an invitation to look around and notice what God is already doing

Jessica’s story is a beautiful reminder that our beginnings don’t have to determine our endings—and that God can use even the parts of our stories we wish had been different.

If you’re in a season of waiting, uncertainty, disappointment, or becoming, I think this conversation will give you a little more hope for what God might be doing beneath the surface.

Find Jessica at JessicaLMorris.com and explore her books and spiritual direction practice.

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