Discovering Light When Our Hearts Are Breaking: Linsey Davis & Grace Anna Rodgers
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Life will give us our share of dark times, but we can choose to be the light. Today’s guests share how they use the power of story to share messages of hope and purpose. Award-winning ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis shares how she has taken lessons from her childhood in church, her time as a reporter, and the values she’s trying to instill in her young son to show that what’s important is loving people, not focusing on our differences. After several miscarriages, when Angela Rodgers discovered she was pregnant again, she was told the baby would have several health issues—but Angela loved her little girl and knew God had a plan for her life. Dynamic mother-daughter duo Angela and Grace Anna Rodgers are now sharing nine-year-old Grace Anna’s gift of singing with the world, spreading happiness and reminding others that what matters about people is who they are on the inside, not the outside.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling Family Devotional
Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids
Jesus Calling App
ABC’s World News Tonight
ABC’s Good Morning America
ABC’s Nightline
The World is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings book
One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being More Alike Than Different book
Angela and Grace Anna Rodgers
Grace Anna Sings: A Story of Hope Through a Little Girl with a Big Voice book
Who Do You See When You Look at Me? book
Grace Anna singing the National Anthem (Facebook video)
Contemporary Christian Music artist Austin French
Interview Quotes:
“[My mom was] very much responsible for my falling in love with storytelling and with writing and with the English language.” - Linsey Davis
“When I look back now, I think [my time in church as a child] was so important to who I am today.” - Linsey Davis
“I can see God's hand in other people's lives, for sure. But when truly catastrophic things happen, I don't know how to explain it. But I have to believe that God has a plan.” - Linsey Davis
“My son's five, and when he comes home and he's met a new friend, he doesn't tell me about their race or their background or religion or culture. He just says what they have in common.” - Linsey Davis
“Let's say, ‘Hey, we have different color skin and hair and features and likes and dislikes. But guess what? God gave us all this one unique gift. He gave us all one big heart and that's the most important part, because that's where love starts.’” - Linsey Davis
“From the very beginning, we wanted Grace Anna, even when the doctors didn't give us a whole lot of hope.” - Angela Rodgers
“What would touch my heart so deeply is you would see these colonels and these generals with all these medals be brought to tears when Grace Anna would sing the national anthem.” - Angela Rodgers
“Sometimes you go through things that change who we become.” - Angela Rodgers
“I think God made each of us with unique gifts. We’re all different in some way. So we can show love by being kind and trying to learn from each other.” - Grace Anna Rodgers
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| 0:20.0 | I think when things are going well like you might be like oh thank you God and I know you're there and but it's not like you're down on your knees necessarily like really pleading and asking and so I think that sometimes it's those most dire moments that figuratively bring you to your knees and literally bring you to your knees that really strengthen that relationship with God. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Today's guests share that despite challenges we face, we can choose to bring joy and light to the |
| 0:28.1 | dark corners. |
| 0:29.1 | Emmy Award-winning journalist and author Lindsay Davis, an inspirational mother and daughter Angela and Grace Anna |
| 0:35.4 | Rogers. |
| 0:38.8 | Lindsay is a correspondent for ABC News and has filed stories for World News, Good Morning America, and Nightline. |
| 0:45.0 | Falling in love with storytelling at an early age, Lindsay tried her hand at public speaking for the first time in church. |
| 0:50.9 | Her faith in God has been key to her compassionate style of |
| 0:53.7 | reporting and her desire to spread a message of hope to a world where the news |
| 0:57.8 | isn't always good. My name is Lindsay Davis. I'm a correspondent for ABC News, a mom, a wife, and a book author. |
| 1:05.0 | Both of my parents started out actually as school teachers. My dad taught math and my mom |
| 1:09.4 | taught English and my dad went on to open his own construction company but and my mom |
| 1:14.6 | mom has subsequently retired as an English teacher but she's the person that kind |
| 1:19.8 | of made sure that I know you know the difference between like when you say done |
| 1:23.7 | like her common phrases like turkeys get done and people get finished and so the |
| 1:28.0 | person that was like always making sure that I you know get lay versus lie right |
| 1:32.2 | but I would I would say that versus lie, right? |
| 1:32.8 | But I would say that she's also very much responsible for my kind of falling in love with |
| 1:38.0 | storytelling and with writing and English language. |
| 1:41.7 | My mom has always been a big writer and spend a lot of time in our house, you know, writing and kind of modeling that for me and certainly like she loves to tell the story. |
| 1:51.0 | Now she's like introducing me or something that I got mad at her |
| 1:54.2 | she says when I was a certain age and I said you know why did you tell me that these |
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