Monday Aug 19, 2024
Ep 230 Walking With the One Who Is Not Worried About a Thing with Megan Fate Marshman
Megan Fate Marshman tells us what to do when we don't have all the things figured out: go to Jesus and tell him that we don't. And then we go to him again and tell him again. We need reminding. We are prone to think we are in control and what a gift from God that we are not.
I just finished reading an advance copy of Megan's latest book, RELAXED: WALKING WITH THE ONE WHO IS NOT WORRIED ABOUT A THING and I'd love to say that I'm totally relaxed AND not worried about a thing. But I'm more relaxed and I'm less worried. So good. Buy one for yourself (if you don't win the giveaway) and one for that friend who may be worried—oh, that's every friend, or most anyway.
Megan, a single mom of two young boys—her dear husband Randy went to be with the Lord at age 36—writes from what she is learning about grief and worry and autonomy and coming to Jesus over and over again. A knowledgeable and charismatic teacher of the Word, Megan pastors at Willow Creek Community Church, Chicago, runs the women's ministry at Hume Lake Christian Camp and is the women's pastor at Arbor Road Church, Long Beach, CA.
Some gems from our conversation:
We don't need to do more; rather, we need to be intentional about showing love right where we are.
God's gift to us is that we don't need to trust in ourselves.
Risk-taking is Christlikeness because you are setting yourself up to need him and the prompts almost always lead to love.
Anxiety signals me where I'm trying to get my security.
We experience a sanctification gap and we go about it all the wrong way to close that gap without God.
Grief has taught me to pay more attention to what really matters and less attention on those things that don't.
We are called to be God's hands and feet to anyone he brings our way.
We are not working on making a perfect family; rather on doing things right.
Anxiety alerts us that something is going on in the dashboard of our soul.