Trusting God Through Trauma and Transition: Trey Tucker & Kit Willis Rutherford
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the question “Am I enough?” follows you into every part of your life? For mental health therapist Trey Tucker, that question isn’t just theoretical—it’s something he’s seen affect the lives of countless men and one he’s wrestled with himself.
Then, writer and mother Kit Willis Rutherford invites us into a quiet, sacred moment from her own life. As her grandmother faced her final days, a tiny cross appeared in the screen of a bedroom window—unchanged through storms and still visible decades later. What began as a mystery became a lasting symbol of comfort for her family.
Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned:
Past Interview: Brandi Rhodes
Upcoming Interview: Butch Wilmore
Trey Tucker’s Rugged Counseling
Taken (Movie starring Liam Neeson) 2008
Tough Enough: Hone Your Habits, Cultivate Purpose, and Forge Genuine Strength - Book by Trey Tucker
Interview Quotes:
“In my experience, every guy that I’ve talked to has some sort of question, Am I enough? It’s the word that haunts him, and you can fill in the blank with whatever word you want before that.” - Trey Tucker
“So being enough or being not enough is the thing that haunts the guys the most. It can drive you to make some really amazingly terrible decisions, but it can also be deceptively helpful in driving you to some great successes.” - Trey Tucker
“Looking back at all the experiences that I’ve had, I finally got it into my body or my heart that God is going to come through. And since He’s going to come through, that means I’m going to be okay….I think it’s helped me to purposely put myself in uncomfortable situations—in situations that scare me—because I just know the more I do that, the more I’m going to really feel and experience God coming through for me, and then I can help other people do the same thing in their own walk as well.“ - Trey Tucker
“[My grandmother] was always such a pillar of the community for people that were in need, quietly meeting needs without ever being prompted to do so.” - Kit Willis Rutherford
“Just because we are filled with faith or we are filled with joy or any other wonderful attribute, we’re not immune from the world. The bad things in the world sort of creep in.” - Kit Willis Rutherford
“The veil between heaven and earth is so thin and we really can, from time to time, glimpse little bits of heaven-sent love and heaven-sent information.” - Kit Willis Rutherford
“I feel like hardship has shaped my faith and been truly the balm against the agony of such a broken world where there is so much sickness and so much grief and so much hardship.” - Kit Willis Rutherford
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| 0:00.0 | Life Audio |
| 0:03.6 | Join us in celebrating an incredible milestone as the beloved Jesus Calling brand reaches 50 million lives impacted. |
| 0:12.5 | As we honor the legacy of author Sarah Young, we reflect on the stories from celebrities, pastors, authors, actors, singers, athletes, scholars, and everyday people who have been |
| 0:22.9 | inspired by her devotional writings. To join in the celebration, and to hear some of the |
| 0:27.4 | stories of people whose faith journeys have been impacted by all the writings of Sarah Young, |
| 0:31.6 | head over to Jesus Calling.com. |
| 0:36.4 | I've made decisions that have knocked myself down through horrible, unwise decisions, and he's still been there to help me get back up. |
| 0:44.3 | I had to face the consequences of it, but he always came through and helped me to rebuild and become better because of it. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:55.2 | What happens when the question, |
| 0:56.7 | Am I Enough, follows you into every part of your life? |
| 1:00.2 | For mental health therapist Trey Tucker, that question isn't just theoretical. |
| 1:04.9 | It's something he's seen affect the lives of countless men, and one he's wrestled with |
| 1:09.1 | himself. |
| 1:10.3 | Next on the show, writer and mother, |
| 1:12.2 | Kit Willis Rutherford, invites us into a quiet, sacred moment in her own life. As her grandmother |
| 1:17.7 | faced her final days, a tiny cross appeared in the screen of her bedroom window, unchanged through |
| 1:23.5 | storms and still visible decades later. What began as a mystery became a lasting symbol of comfort for her family. |
| 1:30.2 | Let's begin with Trey's story. |
| 1:34.8 | My name is Trey Tucker. |
| 1:36.5 | I'm a mental health therapist, and I love helping people figure out who they are and then |
| 1:41.9 | fully become the best version of that. |
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