#403: Can I Trace God's Presence in My Life? With Laurie Polich Short
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Jennifer Rothschild
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes you need to look back and see God in your past to help you trust Him for your future.
In this episode, author and speaker Laurie Polich Short will show you how what felt like a detour may have actually been divine direction. Whether you've experienced closed doors, extended seasons of waiting, or deep disappointment, you'll be reminded that God is present in every part of your story.
Laurie will help you trace God's fingerprints all throughout your life—even in the moments that were confusing, painful, or unexpected—and invite you to release your expectations of how He "should" show up so you can begin to recognize how He already has.
Plus, be sure to listen until the very end because I'm singing a special blessing over you!
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| 0:00.0 | I think that's where we get caught up in our lives, is in a certain circumstance that we assume is going to go on forever or everything's lost or ruined or it's never going to happen. |
| 0:10.9 | And we recognize by looking back that these are just chapters in a much bigger story that God is writing. |
| 0:19.7 | And I think what we need to realize is that God is in the macro story, and we're so often |
| 0:26.0 | in the micro story that we lose perspective on what he was doing. |
| 0:34.7 | Sometimes you just need to look back and see God in your past to help you trust him for your future. |
| 0:41.9 | Well, on today's 413, author Lori Pollock Short is going to guide you through eight different ways to see God's presence in your life. |
| 0:51.6 | She's going to show you how to understand the doors that have opened and the |
| 0:56.0 | doors that have closed, how you ended up in different places than you may have planned, how the |
| 1:02.3 | difficulties and unexpected people in your life were used by God. You are invited to take a really |
| 1:10.1 | good look at your experiences so that you can see the |
| 1:13.6 | thread of God's movement in your life. Oh, and just for fun, I am going to end this podcast by |
| 1:21.1 | singing over you because I want you to even be able to experience in your heart this truth |
| 1:27.4 | that God's fingerprints |
| 1:28.6 | are all over your life. |
| 1:30.4 | So stay till the very end. |
| 1:32.5 | All right, buckle up. |
| 1:33.4 | This is going to be a good one. |
| 1:34.3 | Here we go, Casey. |
| 1:35.5 | Welcome to the 413 podcast where practical encouragement and biblical wisdom set you up to live |
| 1:42.3 | the I can life because you can do all things through Christ |
| 1:47.0 | who strengthens you. Now, welcome your host, Jennifer Rothschild. Hey friends, Jennifer here. And you know |
| 1:54.6 | what I'm about to say if you've been with us any amount of time. It's two friends here. One topic |
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