184. Waiting for Easter (with Jessica Herberger)
God Hears Her Podcast
Our Daily Bread Ministries
4.9 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Guest Bio: Jessica Herberger is a writer and Bible teacher who delights in connecting faith, history, and human flourishing. She is the author of Peace in the Dark, Life Surrendered, and Break Bread Together. Through her writing and speaking, Jessica encourages others to pursue a deeply formed spiritual life, grow in community, and love others well. Jessica and her husband, Josh, live in upstate New York with their three kids, where she can be found surrounded by books and music with her pup Winston always at her feet.
Show Summary: When you read the gospels, how often do you stop to think about the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday? Holy Saturday, that often-overlooked day in between, was a day of silence as the disciples and followers of Jesus mourned His death. It was a day of deep grief and painful lament. Jessica Herberger has been in her own Holy Saturdays ever since the death of her mother. Her grief led her to honor Holy Saturday, and she is passionate about teaching people ways that they too can mark the day in between. Join hosts, Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins, as they learn about Holy Saturday and the ways we can honor it with guest, Jessica Herberger, during this God Hears Her conversation.
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“Holy Saturday is that time chronologically between the end of Good Friday and the beginning of Easter Sunday.” —Jessica Herberger
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“I believe that there is not one single thing that happened between those days was accidental. I believe that every single thing that happened was God’s kindness and showing His church how to live, and that has to include this 24-hour period of where it feels like nothing is happening.” —Jessica Herberger
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“[Holy Saturday] makes [the hope of Easter] Sunday all the more richer when we realize that there was this dark, unknown period too. We’re called to hold both.” —Jessica Herberger
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“At its core, lament is relational. It is a means of demonstrating your personal relationship with a God who hears you, who wants to hear you cry about because you know where to go to cry out.” —Jessica Herberger
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“As we know who Jesus is, we can then remember His character. Knowing God’s character is really one of the most essential things someone can do to maintain a spiritually healthy life, because it is the filter that we must put everything.” —Jessica Herberger
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Jessica’s Website: https://www.jessicaherberger.com/
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Jessica’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessherberger/
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God Hears Her website: https://godhearsher.org/
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God Hears Her email sign-up: https://www.godhearsher.org/sign-upsfmc
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Elisa’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elisamorganauthor/
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Eryn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eryneddy/
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Vivian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivmabuni/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In holding that quiet, like literally for those, you know, in that 24-hour span, that's the same discomfort we have when we find ourselves saying, where is God? |
| 0:10.7 | What is happening right now? My kids sick. My husband left. My parents are dying. My friends have abandoned me. whatever the thing is, we don't like that. |
| 0:21.1 | So we want to give me a solution and get me out of here. And it's that same discomfort. I think |
| 0:25.9 | that we really, we struggle even more and more so now, you know, in our current culture. |
| 0:43.0 | You're listening to God hearsars Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you. |
| 0:45.4 | Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to lean on God through scripture, |
| 0:50.6 | story, and conversation at Godhearsher.org. |
| 0:55.5 | God hears her. |
| 0:57.4 | Seek and she will find. |
| 0:59.9 | Well, Alisa, I know that this guest that we have on today is a deep soul. |
| 1:04.9 | And I'm excited to learn from her. |
| 1:07.7 | You can tell she's a deep soul just by the titles of her books. |
| 1:10.5 | So I'll share the titles, |
| 1:12.3 | Peace in the Dark, Life Surrendered and Break Bread Together. And she is somebody that really wants to |
| 1:19.3 | pursue and continues to pursue just deeply formed spiritual life, growth in community, loving others, |
| 1:25.8 | allowing people to just feel deeply about their walk with God. |
| 1:30.3 | And I feel like she gives a lot of permission slips, not that she's the authority to do it, right? |
| 1:34.9 | But she is somebody that is like locks arms with people, gives them permission to deeply feel. |
| 1:39.6 | We'll take a permission slip from anyone who offers it. |
| 1:42.3 | I mean, my hands are wide open for that. Yeah. |
| 1:47.6 | Yes. Well, Jessica, welcome to the God hears her podcast. We're so excited to have you. |
| 1:51.6 | Thank you so much. I am thrilled to be with both of you today. Share with us. Where are you coming from |
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