Spreading Hope During The Holidays: Stevie and Sazan Hendrix & Dr. Emily Smith
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
For so many, the holidays don’t always represent a time of joy, but trigger memories of painful past trauma, or reminders of deep loss. Whether we greet the holidays with anticipation or dread, we can all be a part of helping each other heal during the holidays. Small acts of kindness, beyond traditional Christmas gifts, can have a big impact in spreading love and creating positive change, especially during a time that brings mixed emotions for so many.
Our first guests this week are digital creators Stevie and Sazan Hendrix. They share some tips about how to navigate the holidays, even when they are hard, and how to find hope even when things feel hopeless. Dr. Emily Smith, who is an epidemiologist at Duke University. Emily’s love for both science and people inspired her to help others answer some difficult questions.
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Interview Quotes:
“Sometimes life happens in the midst of holidays and exciting things and all the happenings and these unexpected, chaotic things happen, but you're still able to stop and see the good, find that hope in the hopeless moments.” - Sazan Hendrix
“It's not these larger than life things, it's just these small little tokens of appreciation that you can pour into your community and it just is one little thing at a time. And what is that one thing you can do when you look around to help spread God's kingdom and His love?” - Sazan Hendrix
“As an epidemiologist, my job is to quantify the need for children in very low income, impoverished areas and then using that data to choose not to walk by. It's like the Good Samaritan story of where we see someone helping the person on the side of the road in some really tangible ways.” - Dr. Emily Smith
“I think that what it looks like to be a good neighbor in today's world is just wherever you are, be a good human.” - Dr. Emily Smith
“We don't have to do it all, but we can do what our great work is. I think if people can discern where they are and what great work they are doing, I think it helps not get so paralyzed.” - Dr. Emily Smith
“During Christmas, take some time to just breathe and maybe remember who has neighbored us well, to tell them thank you…it cost Jesus so much to be a Good Samaritan, but it gives us courage now to do the same.” - Dr. Emily Smith
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| 0:00.0 | With more than 40 million copies sold, |
| 0:02.6 | the original classic edition of Jesus Calling |
| 0:05.5 | is your daily guide to living a more peaceful life. |
| 0:08.7 | Its price and size also make it the perfect gift |
| 0:11.9 | for anyone who needs encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | Find Jesus calling wherever you buy books. |
| 0:19.0 | I really believe God uses your patience, he uses your persistence, and your |
| 0:24.5 | humility to break down those walls and I think we can see families be healed |
| 0:28.5 | using the holidays to do that. It's a wonderful time. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | For so many, holidays don't always represent a time of joy, |
| 0:38.0 | but trigger memories of painful past drama |
| 0:40.0 | or reminders of deep loss. |
| 0:42.0 | Whether we greet the holidays with anticipation or dread. or beyond traditional Christmas gifts can have a big impact in spreading love and creating positive change, |
| 0:55.8 | especially during a time that brings mixed emotions for so many. |
| 1:02.2 | Our first guest this week are Digital Creators, Stevie, and Saizan Hendricks. |
| 1:07.0 | They share some tips about how to navigate the holidays, even when they are hard, |
| 1:11.0 | and how to find hope, even when things feel hopeless. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm Stevie and this is my wife Suzanne and we are from Austin Texas. |
| 1:24.0 | In my family, we spend Christmas every year remembering what we went through as a family, |
| 1:30.0 | that once upon a time ago, we were all getting ready right for the Christmas |
| 1:34.9 | stuff and suddenly we were just all very aware that my little eight-year-old brother at the time |
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