Unfailing Grace and Sacred Rest: Julie Carrick and Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A beautiful element of Christianity is that when we allow ourselves to relax into the peace and grace that God offers, we experience true rest and healing that restores every part of our soul. Catholic recording artist Julie Carrick has seen God touch her life in the moments she was suffering the most—through infidelity, miscarriage, and cancer—and it’s led her to appreciate His unfailing grace and perfect love, which meets her in all of her brokenness and boosts her with the strength to carry on. Physician and author Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an expert on rest in all of its forms, and knows how crucial it is that we give ourselves the type of rest our bodies, minds, and souls truly need. Because it is only when we are well-rested and energized that we can dedicate the best of ourselves to Christ—even the King rested on the 7th day.
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Interview Quotes:
“God's unfailing grace. No matter what we go through, that grace is there.” - Julie Carrick
“The scripture—although it was written thousands of years ago—it wasn't written just for a thousand years ago. It was written timelessly. There is no beginning. There's no end. It was written for us today as much as it was back in the day.” - Julie Carrick
“We're in a position where we are working out of our exhaustion rather than working out of the fullness of all that we have to give. We're not fully being able to use our gifts and our talents and all that God's placed inside of us because we are always working out of that place of depletion.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
“To give of our best, we have to be able to take the time to intentionally rest well.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
“I always like to meditate on a characteristic of God or even a word that brings you back to think about who God is in your life. Peace, love, joy. Pick a word, a phrase that you will focus on as a way of calming your mind and keeping it from being able to just jump to whatever thought that it decides it wants to.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
“I believe every one of us needs to have those people in our lives, whether it's a counselor or a therapist or a trusted friend, a family member, someone who knows at the very core of what's going on with you.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
“We need to see the value in spending time with those people who can pour back into us. We can't always be the ones pouring out into others.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
“Spiritual rest is the rest we experience when we have intimacy with God, when we take time to break away just to be with Him where we're not coming with our agenda. We're not coming with our prayer list. We're coming simply to just spend time in His presence and to enjoy being with Him.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
“God's best for us is where we actually go back to the very beginning and we do it as He has modeled even from the very beginning of creation.” - Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | I had to just find myself in the presence of God to be able to say, |
| 0:07.0 | you know, Lord, I'm trying so hard to be the person you want me to be. |
| 0:12.0 | And I felt unworthy of God's love for a number of reasons. |
| 0:15.0 | And I remember kneeling there and just having this conversation with him and saying, |
| 0:20.0 | I feel so unworthy, I feel so broken, I don't understand why you would let life be so difficult for me. |
| 0:28.0 | And instead of him berating me or whatever, I just felt this overwhelming love that said, |
| 0:35.0 | you are loved, you are a recipient of my mercy. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | In a culture that rewards hard work, long hours, and stretching ourselves too thin, |
| 0:48.0 | we might find ourselves leaving less and less time to accept mercy and find real rest. |
| 0:53.0 | The kind that only comes from being in God's presence. |
| 0:56.0 | This week we have two women who attest to the power of allowing God to speak into our busy days. |
| 1:02.0 | And what it looks like to find mercy and rest by finding closeness with him. |
| 1:06.0 | Author a musician, Julie Carrick, and physician and author, Dr. Sandra Dalton Smith. |
| 1:15.0 | Julie Carrick is a renowned recording artist, speaker and now author, |
| 1:20.0 | that shares her unyielding faith through her writing and music. |
| 1:24.0 | As the founder of Catechetical Artistry and co-founder of Carrick Ministries Foundation, |
| 1:30.0 | she has written and recorded 16 music projects and has written a book about her life called Unfailing Grace. |
| 1:36.0 | The theme of God's Grace has been a strong one in Julie's life. |
| 1:39.0 | As she experienced the heartbreak of infidelity in her marriage, multiple miscarriages, |
| 1:44.0 | and a lung cancer diagnosis. |
| 1:46.0 | Julie believes that being a Christian doesn't exclude us from having hard things come our way. |
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