Life Update: Something New, Finding Rest in the Unknown, Empty Nesting, and Saying Goodbye
Living God's Way with Kim Dolan Leto | Christian Habits, Identity in Christ, How to Walk with God Daily
Kim Dolan Leto
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Not every season is about building—some are about releasing, resting, and trusting God with what you can't control.
If you're walking through change, loss, or uncertainty, this episode is an honest conversation about how God meets us there.
In this episode, you'll:
- Learn how to trust God in seasons of change, loss, and uncertainty—without forcing outcomes
- Reframe rest as a daily act of faith, not a reward for finishing
- Recognize what happens when life finally quiets and God has room to speak again
- Create space for God through simplicity when everything feels full
- Release the pressure to do more and understand how God measures faithfulness differently
- Choose discernment over pressure in seasons of uncertainty
- Return to awe of Jesus in a world that rewards self-promotion and comparison
Scripture mentioned:
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
- Psalm 34:18
- Psalm 127:1
- Matthew 11:28
- Proverbs 15:16
- 1 Corinthians 4:2
- Proverbs 16:9
- Matthew 7
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a heart to heart for my sisters in Christ. It's been a long time since I've shared a real life update, and so much has changed. |
| 0:07.8 | 2025 held more transitions than I expected. Some were beautiful, some painful, and some that quietly reshaped me. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, I'm opening my heart to share something new God is doing. |
| 0:24.1 | What it's been like finding rest in the unknown? |
| 0:27.1 | My journey into empty nesting. |
| 0:34.3 | And gosh, saying goodbye to my sweet dog Bentley, my writing companion after 14 years. |
| 0:36.0 | He truly was my shadow. |
| 0:40.7 | This season has looked like watching my daughter leave for college. Are there any empty nesters listing? |
| 0:44.6 | Living through a full home remodel, wow, traveling with my daughter before she moved out, |
| 0:51.5 | and then for the first time in five years stepping away from the podcast to ask |
| 0:56.4 | God what he wanted me to do next and in the middle of it all the noise the change the grief and the |
| 1:02.6 | quiet God has been teaching me something I believe so many of us need to hear we don't grow by doing |
| 1:08.2 | more we don't grow by forcing outcomes. We don't grow by forcing outcomes. |
| 1:12.9 | We grow by learning how to live faithfully in the season that God has placed us in. |
| 1:18.3 | So today, instead of just giving you a life update, I want to share six things God has been teaching me in this season, |
| 1:25.4 | six simple lessons that are rooted in scripture about |
| 1:29.6 | seasons, rest, simplicity, and stewardship. I'll also share how this season has been changing some |
| 1:38.0 | things in my life and work, including something new and beginning and why I'll soon be back on |
| 1:43.2 | YouTube now that the remodel is |
| 1:46.3 | finally finished. My prayer is that at least one of these meet you right where you are today. |
| 1:52.2 | And I want to share scripture right out of that that is so fitting. Ecclesiastes 3-1 |
| 1:57.6 | reminds us to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under |
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