Unfolding Short Stories: “Listen a bit.” Trevor Hudson

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

“Listen a bit.”
A simple line spoken to a young Trevor Hudson during a leadership exercise became the compass for his life’s work. In this Unfolding Short Story, the South-African pastor and author of In Search of God’s Will: Discerning a Life of Faithfulness and Purpose shows how a modest talent, handed back to God, can grow into decades of counseling, retreats, and Spirit-led guidance. Trevor invites us to slow down and discover what God can do with the small gifts in our own hands.

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0:00.0	I remember kneeling down that night and saying,
0:03.0	God, God, these folk see something in me.
0:06.3	They say that I can listen a bit, and I want to offer that to you.
0:10.5	God's story, your life.
0:15.4	Unfolding short stories.
0:19.9	Right before we started recording Trevor's story, I asked him if I could say a quick word of prayer over him.
0:27.0	And he replied with his soft South African accent, it doesn't have to be quick.
0:33.1	That unhurried pause highlights the heart of Trevor and what he shares about in today's
0:39.6	unfolding short story. It's about the quiet power of listening. So lean in as he
0:45.6	recounts a formative leadership affirmation exercise where his groupmates could
0:52.0	name only one gift that they saw on him. You can listen a bit.
0:57.4	Hi, my name is Trevor Hudson. I live in a town called Benoni, which is just outside
1:04.4	Johannesburg. And if you would ever fly to South Africa, you would land at our national airport.
1:13.3	Bononi is the town closest to that airport. I've just written a book called In Search of God's Will. One of the reasons
1:19.8	why I read that book is because I just have a very deep conviction that God has not a generic
1:26.3	will for everyone, but a very personal world that God
1:29.6	calls each one of us by name. And that really comes out of my own experience with
1:33.5	foreign being God's way and will for my own life. And I remember a very significant event. I was in
1:40.2	my early 20s and we had a group exercise.
1:46.4	I was on a leadership course.
1:47.9	There were four of us in the group.
1:52.7	And what we had to do was we had to go around the circle and we had to affirm the gifts in each other's lives that we had seen and witnessed as we worked together.
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