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God Hears Her Podcast

Community of Belonging (Amy Julia Becker)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Bible, Christianity, Womensbiblestudy, Womensministry, Female, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Society & Culture

4.9 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When Amy Julia Becker gave birth to her first daughter, Penny, she was met with unexpected news—Penny had Down syndrome. In the midst of uncertainty, God began reshaping Amy Julia’s understanding of what it truly means to be made in His image and to belong in His family. Join hosts Eryn Eddy Adkins and Vivian Mabuni for a heartfelt God Hears Her conversation about motherhood, identity, and how God meets us in the moments we never saw coming.  

 

Guest Bio: Amy Julia Becker helps people reimagine the good life through her writing and speaking on disability, faith, and culture. She is the author of To Be Made Well, White Picket Fences, Small Talk, and A Good and Perfect Gift and the creator of the Reimagining Family Life with Disability workshop. She is a guest opinion writer for national publications and hosts the Reimagining the Good Life podcast. Becker is a graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv). She lives with her husband and their three children in western Connecticut. 

 

Notes and Quotes:  

“This is not about me knocking down walls so that other people can come in and be like me. It’s about me recognizing the mutual value of relationships across our social barriers.” —Amy Julia Becker 

 

“What was new to me was the idea that I had needs and that those needs would often be met by the unexpected—the people who, up until that time in my life, I would not have even seen or acknowledged because of the bubble I lived in.” —Amy Julia Becker 

 

“The world tells us to see people with disabilities in terms of their deficits, weaknesses, and brokenness instead of in the terms of their giftedness, belovedness, and the reasons to delight. And those things are really present!” —Amy Julia Becker 

 

Verses:  

Mark 9:37 

Matthew 5:48 

 

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0:00.0

So I think God looks at Penny and sees someone who is gifted and who is limited and needy and who is vulnerable.

0:08.7

And I think he sees someone who has brokenness and various aspects of her body and mind and spirit.

0:14.9

And I think he sees tremendous belovedness that goes even deeper than any of that.

0:19.9

And I think all of that is true for me as well.

0:23.5

And having that perspective on who she is has helped me to see others and myself so much more

0:30.6

clearly.

0:45.4

You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you.

0:59.8

Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to lean on God through scripture, story, and conversation at Godhearsher.org. God hears her. Seek and she will find.

1:06.5

Hey friends, before we get started, feel free to download or print our new Bible study show notes to fill out while you listen. You can find those on our website. It's always wonderful to meet incredible

1:15.3

women on the God Here's Her podcast, but when there's a friend, it just adds a whole different

1:21.6

layer of not only familiarity, but just joy. So I am thrilled to introduce to our listeners the wonderful, phenomenal

1:30.5

Amy Julia Becker. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and her three kids and just a little bit

1:37.0

of background about Amy Julia. She is a grounded, humble, just a brilliant mind, but not in a stuffy kind of way. So Amy Julia helps people

1:49.3

reimagine the good life through her writing and her speaking. Her focus is on disability,

1:55.7

faith, and culture. And she is the author of multiple books, including To Be Made Well, White Picket Fences, Small Talk,

2:03.9

and a Good and Perfect Gift.

2:06.3

She's also the creator of reimagining family life with disability, this workshop that she heads up,

2:11.9

and she's a guest opinion writer for national publications, and she's the host of reimagining

2:16.7

the Good Life podcast. And so Amy,

2:19.1

Julia, I'm thrilled that you are here. We want to just get to know you and have coffee with you

2:26.0

over the miles. So thank you for joining us on God. Here's her. Yes, welcome. Thank you for having me.

2:32.5

I'm so glad to be here. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to this conversation.

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