#215: Can I Find Joy When the Life I Have Isn't the One I Wanted? With Elizabeth Woodson

4:13 Podcast with Jennifer Rothschild

Jennifer Rothschild

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We all live with some sort of longing—a gap between the life we want and the life we actually have. As we navigate this gap, we try to hang on to the hope that God will change our circumstances or fulfill our desires.

For some, those prayers are answered. Yet for others, the longing persists, making us weary at best and debilitated at worst. So, how do you find joy in this life when it isn’t the life you hoped for?

Author and Bible teacher, Elizabeth Woodson, shares how you can find joyful living in that gap. She’ll take us to the Old Testament book of Joshua where we’ll learn to accept reality, find contentment, and live with joy.

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0:00.0	And so we have to slow down and just be able to admit,
0:05.4	man, maybe something isn't the way I want it to be.
0:08.1	And Lord, can you help me with that?
0:09.6	And that within itself is a courageous decision to make,
0:13.0	but sometimes can be really hard just to admit
0:15.4	that we have something we need to navigate through
0:18.5	and something that's not okay.
0:20.1	We all live with some sort of longing.
0:22.1	It's the gap between the life we want and the life we actually have.
0:25.1	As we navigate this gap,
0:27.1	we try to hang on to the hope that God will change our circumstances
0:30.1	or fulfill our desires.
0:32.1	And for some, those prayers are answered,
0:35.1	yet for others, the longing hangs on.
0:39.1	So how do you find yourself?
0:42.1	How do you find yourself?
0:44.1	How do you find yourself?
0:46.1	How do you find yourself?
0:48.1	How do you find joy in this life when it isn't the life you hoped for?
0:53.1	Well, today, author and Bible teacher Elizabeth Woodson
0:57.1	will set you up for joyful living right in the middle of that gap.
1:02.1	She is going to take us to the Old Testament book of Joshua,
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