Over and over I found in my life that when I sort of surrender my plan, while simultaneously

saying faithful to wherever I am, that's when things start to really flourish and really unexpected in beautiful ways.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.

Surrendering our plans and aspirations to try to follow God's map for our life can seem challenging.

Our guests this week give us some firsthand experience

on the joys they experienced when they handed their dreams over to God.

Artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols,

and actor producer producer Kel Mitchell.

First up Morgan Harper Nichols is a woman with numerous creative outlets, singing, writing, and creating

inspirational pieces of art that have gone viral.

Morgan reflects on the mountains and valleys the broader to where she is now, including the

start of the project that has impacted her more than she ever

imagined, sharing the stories of strangers through visual art.

Morgan dives into how connection happens through imperfections, and that she felt God calling her to go deeper and to

engage in something bigger than herself. My name is Morgan Harper Nichols. I am an

artist and a writer. I live in Southern California. I am really inspired by people's stories and I write and I share a lot of art and I enjoy connecting with people.

I was a preacher skin of a pretty small church and I saw my parents from the very

beginning they were just very hands-on and present with people and growing up I saw a lot of my

parents just setting the table for people, and just inviting people

into our house, our home, whether they went to the church or not.

And it was just, I guess, very early on,

the concept of faith and who Jesus was was very intertwined with daily life and

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