Episode 84: Slow Burn with DawnCheré Wilkerson
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Waiting isn’t punishment, it’s preparation. On this episode, Jess talks with pastor and author DawnCheré Wilkerson about how God uses the wait to shape us, drawing from DawnCheré’s powerful story and her new book Slow Burn.
If you’re tired of holding on, this conversation will remind you: He’s never late, He’s working.
Let’s go.
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Transcript
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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, |
| 0:07.1 | and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance. |
| 0:14.5 | This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply |
| 0:23.4 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.4 | or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, |
| 0:38.8 | I am praying for you and I'm so glad you're here from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you, |
| 0:41.7 | and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:51.2 | Friends, let me give it to you straight. I hate waiting. I hate waiting. Today we are honored to have Don Sheree Wilkerson with us. She is a dynamic pastor, a speaker, |
| 0:56.1 | and now author of the transformative book, Slow Burn, The Work and Wonder of the Weight. |
| 1:03.1 | In this compelling work, Don Sherey invites us to reframe our understanding of waiting, |
| 1:09.5 | not as punishment, but as purposeful process where |
| 1:13.5 | God is not delaying but developing us. Drawing from her story, including an eight-year |
| 1:19.3 | struggle with infertility, she shares incredible insights into embracing the slow burn seasons |
| 1:25.5 | of life with faith and expectancy. If you're in a season of |
| 1:29.8 | anticipation or seeking to find purpose in your own pause, this conversation is going to be a beacon |
| 1:36.8 | of hope and encouragement. Don Tree, thank you so much for being on the podcast. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I love conversations, |
| 1:46.7 | you know? I feel like in my life, in the slow burn, the weight of life, that conversations |
| 1:52.1 | make all the difference in how I view the journey. Oh, so good. Okay, I'm coming in hot. I'm |
| 1:58.6 | coming in honest. This is a genuine question that I feel like I have done |
| 2:02.8 | the theological workaround and I still need to hear from a friend. I need to hear from a wise |
| 2:08.5 | woman. Why does God make us wait? I need a theology of waiting. Will you give us the real talk? |
| 2:20.7 | Well, I think that when we get to heaven, God will give us much more. But from my own experience and what I discover in the scriptures, more importantly, |
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