God’s Perfect Purpose for Our Imperfect Lives: Rita Wilson and Lisa Osteen Comes
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🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Many of us spend our lives trying to match our talents with the world’s need. We want to feel useful, after all. But when we’re hustling to get dinner on the table, or shuttling loved ones to doctor’s appointments, or rushing to meet a deadline, “finding our purpose” feels like a task that’s way too big to check off the list. But even if we don’t feel it, God has a purpose for our lives, and is doing great things, even through imperfect humans. Our guests, actor/producer Rita Wilson and pastor Lisa Osteen Comes, remind us that God has put greatness inside each of us, and as we travel through our lives, He reveals new gifts we can use to reach others.
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Jesus Calling weekly prayer call
Jesus Calling podcast - “Using Our Gifts for Good: Musciaian RaeLynn & Writer Kristy Cambron
My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie
You Were Made for More: How to Become All You Were Created to Be book
The Singing Contractors’ “How Great Thou Art”
Interview Quotes:
“We're works in progress. We're not really finished, and we are constantly trying to be better.” - Rita Wilson
“But at the end of the day, you want to be remembered for making someone's life better.” - Rita Wilson
“Having been blessed with an extraordinary life, you almost become more thankful. You can't take credit for it. In a way, I feel like everything that I do—anything good that is coming out of it, I believe—is from a higher power.” - Rita Wilson
“Creativity is time independent.” - Rita Wilson
“All these things come against us in life, and sometimes it looks like we're not gonna make it, we're not going to live out our dreams. But with God's help, we can.” - Lisa Osteen Comes
“What did God put in you naturally? What are your gifts, what are your talents? Because whatever He puts in you, He's going to use for your destiny, for His purpose, for His glory.” - Lisa Osteen Comes
"I am God's child and He has a plan for me. He will help me if He calls me. He will equip me and help me to do whatever He has called me to do." - Lisa Osteen Comes
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| 0:00.0 | What are our gifts? And even if you think you have a gift for something but you're not quite sure, |
| 0:09.0 | you should check it out because maybe you do. And that's something worthwhile and worthy and might be |
| 0:15.0 | affecting and touching somebody else so go for it. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today's guests have learned that God created us all for a purpose |
| 0:25.9 | and put greatness inside each of us. Actor producer Rita Wilson and Pastor Lisa Ostein Comis. |
| 0:33.0 | First up, we talk with actor, producer, and singer, songwriter Rita Wilson. |
| 0:38.0 | Rita has a long list of credits to her name, including many roles in television and film, and as the producer of such blockbuster films as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mama Mia. Rita also shines as a singer-songwriter and has just released her fourth album called |
| 0:54.0 | Halfway to Home. Rita tells us about growing up as a small town kid in the bright |
| 0:58.8 | lights of Hollywood and how it's never too late to chase a dream. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm Rita Wilson. and how it's never too late to chase a dream. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm Rita Wilson. |
| 1:04.6 | I am a singer, a songwriter, an actor, and a producer. |
| 1:08.4 | I was born and raised in Hollywood, California, |
| 1:11.5 | and my parents, my dad was Bulgarian and my mom was Greek and they met in |
| 1:17.5 | New York and moved to California after they got married. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm a first generation American. |
| 1:26.3 | And growing up in Hollywood, it was just like my little hometown, |
| 1:30.3 | but I grew up with really solid family values because my parents were just |
| 1:35.2 | extraordinary people and so my dad converted to Greek Orthodoxy and then Tom who was baptized Catholic converted to Greek Orthodox |
| 1:48.7 | and both my kids are Greek Orthodox. For us, it was really kind of great going to church on Sundays. |
| 1:57.6 | Easter is a huge holiday for us, Christmas as well, |
| 2:01.0 | but Easter is really the big big holiday in Greek Orthodoxy. |
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