Episode 9: Friendship: Messy and Worth It - Part 1
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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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.
Is friendship a struggle for you? Or maybe you find yourself feeling alone, hurt, and disappointed even though you're surrounded by people? In this episode, Jess shares the ‘10 Rules of Friendship’ that she's crafted over the years. We hope this podcast encourages you and gives you insight for navigating friendships. It's messy - but 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, |
| 0:07.2 | 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 |
| 0:23.7 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.9 | 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. |
| 0:41.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:45.9 | Every person I know seems to struggle with friendship at some point. |
| 0:51.2 | The women I know who seem to have perfect friendships still sometimes feel alone, |
| 0:57.1 | hurt, disappointed, and lonely. A lot of the men I know crave deeper friendships and think there must |
| 1:03.7 | be something wrong with them that they're not really experiencing those. I don't think |
| 1:09.9 | there's something wrong with us if friendships are difficult. I think that being |
| 1:14.3 | known by people and developing deep connections with them is messy. Applying the gospel to |
| 1:21.6 | ourselves and to other people is messy. Forgiving people and learning to trust people again |
| 1:26.3 | is messy. But it is worth it. My perspective |
| 1:31.4 | is that of a church planter. Nick and I moved to Charleston 10 years ago with four friends |
| 1:36.9 | and a dream in our heart. And now, 10 years later, with lots of rejection and betrayal behind us, |
| 1:43.7 | and probably plenty of pain headed for |
| 1:46.6 | us in the future, I am living in the first fruits of years of pursuing and pressing in to see |
| 1:53.5 | healthy friendships. And I can't wait to share the things I've learned along the way about being a good |
| 1:59.1 | friend and persevering when it gets messy. |
| 2:02.7 | I'm Jess. |
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