How to Trust God When you Don't Know What's Next

IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

How to make the most of the present when you feel stuck
How to trust God’s plans are good even in the waiting
How to know whether the guy you’re dating is “the one”
How to move forward after losing your job
How to deal with the pain and the waiting and the hardships that come with infertility

(You can also listen right here!👇)

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!

So, as you guys know, a few weeks ago I came out with a brand new prayer journal called The Between Places: 100 days to trusting God when you don’t know what’s next.

I love this prayer journal because I can’t even count how many times I’ve found myself in between places — trying to trust God, wanting to believe that His plans for my life are good, but also feeling so much doubt and fear and just general blech-ness as I try to wait for whatever the thing is. It’s hard! Right?

So during the week that the book came out, my husband Carl and I hosted a virtual hangout with my amazing book launch team where we talked about what it’s like to be in between places. The members of the launch team sent in a ton of questions — some of them were about between places that Carl and I have been through and how we navigated them, and some of them were about between places that they are walking through right now. And I just LOVED the conversation that came out of that evening.

I feel like God showed up in the coolest, most beautiful way that night, and that’s why I just knew we had to share that conversation here on Girls Night.

Here are just a few of the topics we touch on in this episode:

How to make the most of the present when you feel stuck

How to trust God’s plans are good even in the waiting

How to know whether the guy you’re dating is “the one”

How to move forward after losing your job

How to deal with the pain and the waiting and the hardships that come with infertility

And so much more!

I did think we would have more time to talk about fertility and the journey to becoming a parent than we did, but because of that, I just wanted to mention that Carl and I did a whole episode a few months ago where we share the whole story of what this journey has looked like for us, and so if that’s an episode you need right now, you can find the link when you scroll down this page.

I’m so excited about this episode, I cannot wait to share it with you.

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How to trust God’s plans are good even in the waiting and how to make the most of the present when you feel stuck.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Steph’s book, The Lipstick Gospel (here’s a paperback copy and here’s a free digital download!)

Steph’s prayer journal, The Between Places

Steph & Carl Share Their Story of Trying to Have a Baby

Dadville Podcast

Quotes Mentioned:

"We need to practice being present" - Stephanie

"When you're looking for the next thing, you just miss everything that's here today" - Stephanie

"Being here, in this world...is a between place" - Carl

"Even when things didn't feel good, God was still good" - Stephanie

"The thing that we can create with the person we choose, is always going to be better than the thing that could be with the person we'll never find" - Carl

"The dream is still out there, you just have to get up and try again" - Stephanie

"You do not have to share everything with everybody" - Stephanie

"When I look back on my life, the best things about me have been formed by God in the between places." - Stephanie

"For us to be surprised, we have to be in the dark for awhile" - Carl