Shalom Season | Episode 115: Peace About Your Purpose With Alex Seeley
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We talk about peace a lot. But what does it actually look like to live with it?
In this conversation, Jess sits down with pastor and author Alex Seeley to talk about her newest book, The Divine Counselor, and what it looks like to truly walk with the Holy Spirit as our counselor, companion, and constant guide.
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| 0:00.0 | We say we want peace. We pray for it. We look for it. We try to build lives that might finally give it to us. |
| 0:09.0 | But if we're honest, many of us don't actually feel peaceful. Our minds race with thoughts we can't seem to quiet. |
| 0:16.0 | Our bodies carry more tension than we know what to do with. Our homes and relationships hold stress, |
| 0:22.4 | conflict, and questions we wish we could resolve. And underneath it all sits a deeper fear |
| 0:28.2 | that maybe peace is something other people get to have, but not us. This season on the Jess Connolly |
| 0:34.8 | podcast, we are in Shalom Season. |
| 0:38.3 | We're asking honest questions about what it means to live with that kind of peace. |
| 0:42.9 | We'll explore peace in our minds, in our bodies, in our homes, in our marriages, |
| 0:47.0 | and even in the complicated spaces of motherhood and community. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm so glad you're here. This is Shalom season. Let's go. |
| 0:58.7 | Pastor Alex Seeley, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. I'm so grateful. |
| 1:03.0 | Not only are you on the podcast, but you are here on Monday, Thursday of Easter week as a local |
| 1:07.9 | church pastor. How are you holding up? How's your body? How's your church? How's your |
| 1:11.7 | family? You know, it's so funny, but I find that America really puts this emphasis on like |
| 1:18.0 | Easter weekend being like the Super Bowl of church. And this is going to sound terrible, but we don't |
| 1:23.7 | because I believe every week is just as special because Jesus has been resurrected, |
| 1:29.8 | you know, for 2,000 years. And while we love celebrating Easter on Sunday, we don't stress |
| 1:35.7 | ourselves. We don't make this a weekend for the visitor in the sense of the person that never |
| 1:41.5 | comes back to church. We make it for the person that needs Jesus, like we do every week. |
| 1:47.5 | And so that sounds so counterculture, but our team are prepped, ready. |
| 1:52.4 | We are not stressed. |
| 1:53.9 | We treat every single week with excellence, with preparation, and we're looking forward |
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