Meeting the Healer of Broken People: Amy Kavelaris & Austin French
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Jesus didn’t come for perfect people—He came to heal the broken and the hurting. Today’s guests, artist and author Amy Kavelaris and Christian music artist Austin French, share how God met them in their broken places and healed their lives and hearts. Amy draws inspiration from the awe-filled way her three little girls see the world, and it reminds her of the light God is in her life. When she gets overwhelmed by demands on her time or struggles to navigate life’s changing seasons, Amy remembers that God is creating opportunities for her. Austin French faced an internal battle with Christianity for years, only to realize he wasn’t hurt by a broken God, but by broken people. He finally found peace and healing when he learned that Jesus wants every piece of us. We are not defined by our scars—we’re defined by His.
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Interview Quotes:
“I just had this innate feeling that God existed and that I just wanted to follow Him with my life.” - Amy Kavelaris
”I think it's so important that we celebrate God's creation. It's fun to add a little whimsy and sparkle into the everyday, because our kids see the everyday as wonderful and extraordinary.” - Amy Kavelaris
”I get so much more from watching [my girls] and seeing how they react to [the world]. It's just this beautiful relationship that we have, where it 100 percent inspires what I do every day.” - Amy Kavelaris
”This is all about Him. He’s the only reason I'm doing any of this.” - Amy Kavelaris
“I find that the only joy and freedom is when we gaze upon His light and His truth. It's then that we find that true, indescribable joy, and stop chasing after what the world tells us we need.” - Amy Kavelaris
“I didn't understand why we had to change who we were at church and why we couldn't be who we were all the time. As an eight-year-old kid, I wrote down: I never want to be a Christian.” - Austin French
“I realized that I had been hurt by broken people, not Jesus. Jesus is what He told me He was—He was the Healer of broken people.” - Austin French
“We're very needy people, all of us. We need people. We need a God who's with us and working with us.” - Austin French
”I think the only way to find a relationship with Jesus and truly find freedom in Jesus is to understand that brokenness is a part of this story.” - Austin French
“We're not defined by our scars or the scars that you're walking through right now— we're defined by His. - Austin French
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| 0:00.0 | You can totally see life through art through the way that lights hitting things. I just |
| 0:04.8 | think it's neat how God intertwines all of that because he is the ultimate artist. It's just so |
| 0:08.8 | cool. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today's guests share how God met them in their broken places |
| 0:15.8 | and through spending time in him, |
| 0:17.5 | they began to see healing. |
| 0:19.2 | Visual artist and children's book author Amy Cavaleris |
| 0:22.4 | and contemporary Christian music artist Austin French. |
| 0:29.3 | If you walk into a Target store or small boutique, chances are you may see something painted by Amy Caballeris. |
| 0:35.8 | Amy shares how she learned to express herself for art from an early age, how she faced a season of |
| 0:41.6 | unexpected loneliness and depression, and about the visual art she does today, |
| 0:45.7 | often inspired by the wonder filled worldview of her three little girls. |
| 0:50.1 | Hello, I'm Amy Cavaleris. I am a full-time fine artist and children's book, author, an illustrator for Harper Collins Christian publishing. |
| 0:58.5 | Now, as our family is growing, I get to paint from home with my babies on my lap and sell my work worldwide in |
| 1:04.8 | some really wonderful stores like anthropology, Target, some smaller boutiques etc. |
| 1:10.1 | I laugh now because years ago my family would say that in my mind I kind of lived in like this like movie world like this dream world |
| 1:17.3 | You know I was a good student but I was always daydreaming and now I get to create those daydreams for a living. |
| 1:23.2 | So it's just, it's really fun for me. |
| 1:25.0 | I actually have a little bit of both my parents and me. |
| 1:28.8 | My father was very entrepreneurial, my mother was an art teacher for 30 years. |
| 1:33.0 | So I guess I have a little piece of each of them |
| 1:35.2 | just from watching them work in their example, |
| 1:37.9 | how they were treating others, |
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