Episode 11: Friendship: Messy and Worth It - Part 2
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our podcast– The Jess Connolly Podcast!
This podcast is for you. It’s not my podcast, it’s ours. It’s for people who crave light-hearted conversations and deeply spiritual truths. It’s for those of us who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, or praying about what’s next.
We’re going there in this episode: how to know when it’s time to move on, how to heal from a friendship breakup, when politics or parenting cause tension, and so much more!
We're with you in this - friendship is messy, but so worth it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader, and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance. |
| 0:14.7 | This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply |
| 0:23.6 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.6 | or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you, |
| 0:39.1 | and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:45.3 | Friendship is hard. It's really difficult. We are in a series on friendship. And last time we went kind of light, then we talked about friendship with God. |
| 0:57.3 | And now we're going to talk a little bit about the underbelly, the hard, messy parts of friendship. |
| 1:03.2 | What happens when it goes wrong? |
| 1:05.9 | Every person I know seems to struggle with friendships at some point. |
| 1:10.4 | The women that I know who seem to have |
| 1:13.3 | the perfect friendships still sometimes feel alone, hurt, disappointed, and lonely. I have such an |
| 1:19.5 | interesting viewpoint as a coach and as a church leader in that I will see women who look like |
| 1:24.7 | they're living the friendship dream, but then I hear differently from them |
| 1:28.9 | when I counsel them. A lot of men, I know, crave deeper friendships and think there must be |
| 1:34.4 | something wrong with them that they don't have them. And I don't think there's something wrong with |
| 1:39.0 | us if friendships are difficult for us. I think that being known by people and developing deep connections with |
| 1:45.0 | them is messy. Applying the gospel to ourselves and to other people is messy. Forgiving |
| 1:50.2 | people and learning to trust people again is messy, but it is worth it. Today we're talking |
| 1:56.9 | about the darker side of friendship, what to do when things go wrong or get hard and |
| 2:01.9 | heavy. I'm sharing some things I've learned, some things I've learned the hard way by doing it |
| 2:07.0 | wrong and having to pivot, some things I've learned through pain and some things I've learned |
| 2:11.9 | by watching other people love well. We're going there in this episode. How to know when it's time to move on, |
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