{"id":304726,"date":"2017-10-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:00:00","slug":"meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting God in the Quiet Place"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Hagerty, author of &#8220;Unseen,&#8221; talks about what it means to live a life that is seemingly hidden and unnoticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2017-10-16.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:26:22","filesize":"24.14M","filesize_raw":"25315051","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2853,2838],"tags":[6339,6341,2210,6340,6338],"podcast_series":[8241],"cwp_profile":[3052,3331],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-304726","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frazzled-family","category-mothers","tag-meeting-god","tag-owning-your-faith","tag-prayer","tag-serving-others","tag-unseen","podcast_series-unseen","cwp_profile-barbara-rainey","cwp_profile-sara-hagerty","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/304726\/meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/304726\/meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zOrcNpefEW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place\/\">Meeting God in the Quiet Place<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/meeting-god-in-the-quiet-place\/embed\/#?secret=zOrcNpefEW\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Meeting God in the Quiet Place&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"zOrcNpefEW\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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Sara Hagerty knows how you feel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>We grew our family really fast\u2014in two years we went from just the two of us to four kids\u2014so there were six of us. There was one afternoon where I was doing laundry, switching the laundry from the washer to the dryer and thinking to myself\u2014how ironic, \u201cThis is terrible!\u00a0 I have to do this again tomorrow and again the next day!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI heard this whisper in my spirit\u2014which is really just His Word\u2014I heard, \u201cI like it when you\u2019re weak.\u201d It was in that moment in the laundry room where I felt like, <em>He sees this<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, October 16<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. When the daily challenges of life are coming at you relentlessly, how do you keep in mind that there\u2019s a God whose love is just as relentless? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll talk about that today with Sara Hagerty. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I have a sense that you and I may just be kind of sitting in and listening to a conversation today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We\u2019re not window dressing, that\u2019s for sure. [Laughter] We\u2019re at the table with a couple of delightful women. My wife, Barbara, joins us again. Welcome back, sweetie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Thanks, I\u2019m most glad to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She likes being on the broadcast, and I have listeners coming up and telling me, \u201cWhy are you even on the broadcast anymore?\u201d [Laughter] \u201cPut Barbara on there more!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur special guest today\u2014Sara Hagerty\u2014joins us. Sara, I\u2019ve watched Barbara read your book as we\u2019ve been driving down the road on a couple of road trips we\u2019ve made recently\u2014and I can tell you, she thoroughly enjoyed it\u2014and so have I.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Thank you. I\u2019m so honored to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She is the author of a book called <em>Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed<\/em>. Now think about that for a moment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I just want to know why you\u2019ve loved this book so much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>I\u2019ve loved it for several reasons. One of the reasons that I love this book is that I think it speaks to what so many women feel presently and have felt for generations\u2014because so many women\u2019s lives are somewhat hidden\u2014especially if you have kids and you\u2019re not working outside the home. So your world feels unnoticed\u2014you feel unseen\u2014you feel hidden. \u201cDoes anybody know? Does anybody care? Am I making any kind of a difference at all in the world?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You had a few decades like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>I had a few decades like that\u2014so I think that\u2019s why it resonated with me. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The issue of identity\u2014I think for men and women\u2014is a relevant subject today. I think men tend to lean their ladder against the wall of achievement and success, just like we\u2019re training women to do more and more today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo Sara, you\u2019ve tapped into something really, really important. Sara is married to her husband, Nate, and what year were you married? I didn\u2019t have that information\u2014I\u2019ll just ask you here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>We got married in 2001. We\u2019re coming up on 16 years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There you go. You have six kids\u2014four of whom are adopted.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>A couple from Ethiopia, and a couple from Uganda.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We\u2019ll talk more about that later. Let\u2019s talk about when you graduated from college and decided to change the world. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Isn\u2019t that what everybody does?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Yes, yes it is actually.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>A lot of us thought we were going to change the world\u2014no doubt about it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>What happened in your life as you went off on a crusade to change that world?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>I was in full-time ministry\u2014a wonderful ministry\u2014reaching out to high school kids\u2014non-believing high school kids\u2014and sharing the Gospel with them. As a part of that ministry I was seeing lives changed, and when you start to get a little taste of watching lives change it is exhilarating.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo in my heart I thought, \u201cThis is what life in God is like. We change lives, we make impact\u201d\u2014and it is. But as the years went on I would find myself being in conversations with high school kids\u2014sharing the Gospel\u2014talking to them about Jesus, and over time I started to think, \u201cI don\u2019t really know this God that I\u2019m talking to them about in the way that I\u2019m talking about Him.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs my husband and I were facing just some of the stuff that comes with being newly married and some personal difficulties in our own lives\u2014kind of navigating, \u201cWhat does it look like to be in our 20s and be believers?\u201d I started to realize, \u201cI have a lot of identity wrapped in these young people coming to know Jesus, and I don\u2019t know that I know what it feels like to have His eyes on me when I\u2019m not making an impact.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Barbara, you went through something like this as well. You worked with college students at the University of South Carolina with Cru, and then I swept you off your feet. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr maybe better stated\u2014you completely swept me off my feet\u2014and I carted you away to Boulder, Colorado, where we worked with high school students, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Oh, wonderful!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>We did it for a year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How did you experience what she\u2019s talking about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Well, I think it was very much the same, because I too felt that thrill of seeing lives changed, but we moved three or four times in those first few years of marriage, so I was constantly starting over in those first few years, and then we started having kids and made the decision that I would focus on raising our children. That meant I wasn\u2019t involved in reaching kids for Christ, I wasn\u2019t going on the high school or college campus anymore.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s when I started to feel what you started to feel. \u201cWho am I? What did God make me to do, and how do I find my purpose?\u201d I knew I was called to be a mom, and I didn\u2019t want to do anything else but raise our kids\u2014I was fully committed to being involved and engaged in their lives\u2014but there was an identity shift.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Share with our listeners and with Sara\u2014because she doesn\u2019t know about this\u2014share with them about the piece that you wrote in your journal back in 1985.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>A week ago I started digging through some books on my shelf. I wasn\u2019t the best journaler, but I found this journal and I pulled it out, and I wanted to just kind of flip through it. I haven\u2019t looked at it in decades. I found this entry that I had written in 1985, which was the summer after we\u2019d had our sixth child. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were at a Cru conference, we\u2019d taken all of our kids, and the very first day of the conference I woke up and I was so excited to go to the meeting, because that was where I just felt alive again. Not that I didn\u2019t at home, but it was that reconnecting with that part of my life that had been so fun for several years. I was excited about going to the meetings and being a part of the praise and worship, and the youngest kid was sick, and I couldn\u2019t take her to childcare. So the others went to childcare. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere I was in the apartment, and so I wrote in my journal, \u201cI really wanted to go to the meetings today; I really wanted to be a part of the praise and worship, but here I am in the apartment alone\u2014again. I\u2019m stuck with a sick kid. Being a mother doesn\u2019t stop. My kids\u2019 needs never stop. And so, here I am.\u201d Then the last line that I wrote was interesting, because I don\u2019t remember thinking this or writing this, but I wrote, \u201cBut it\u2019s okay. I\u2019m not feeling sorry for myself, because I know I can worship God anywhere.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI understood what the truth was, but it still was an adjustment to figure out, \u201cWho am I in this time in my life when I have these hopes\u2014or these dreams\u2014or these desires, but my kids keep me grounded at home because they need me, and I\u2019m committed to them?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Sara, that kind of described your life too, didn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It did. You know, it was different, I think, for me as kids came much later. So I had this transition period from \u201cchanging the world\u201d\u2014so to speak\u2014to recognizing, \u201cSomething\u2019s not right on the inside. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI feel uncomfortable with this God that I\u2019m talking to other people about,\u201d and I had emotional integrity enough to go, \u201cI have to get alone with this God.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy husband and I both decided I was going to take a hiatus from ministry and I was just working at a little boutique. I didn\u2019t have children at that time, but it was the same kind of wrestle\u2014feeling a little bit like if I had continued on in full-time ministry I wouldn\u2019t have been integrous\u2014and I think I wouldn\u2019t have been walking out what God had for me\u2014but how is it that He could actually call me to work at a little boutique, not change anybody\u2019s life, and maybe sell five things in a day?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor me the wrestle was in that time feeling a little bit stuck not changing the world, but also asking myself and asking God, \u201cWhat do you have for me right here, because I think that this could be holy, I feel like it could be holy,\u201d sort of like you felt in that apartment, \u201cGod, tell me what that looks like.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You actually found God in the boutique.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>I found God in the boutique.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How\u2019d He show up?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It was a North Barracks Road shopping center in Charlottesville, Virginia. It sold imported French and Italian pottery\u2014and truly, I maybe only had five customers in a day. They said, \u201cDon\u2019t clean. Cottage pottery looks better when it\u2019s dusty.\u201d So I literally had nothing to do in the store. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI brought my Bible in\u2014and it was in one of those times that I just knew that there was an invitation. You know how you have kind of in the back of your mind, \u201cThis is an invitation from God.\u201d So I brought my Bible in and I started to just ask God, \u201cShow me Your face in this Word. This Word that I\u2019ve read\u2014that I\u2019ve told so many people about\u2014I\u2019ve given so many talks about the Gospel. Show me Your face here.\u201d I just had time to dialogue with God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn that time\u2014there\u2019s an awkwardness that happens when you don\u2019t have anything to show God. I didn\u2019t have\u2014I couldn\u2019t say, in this one day, come home from work and say, \u201cBabe, I led this person to Jesus.\u201d This person was in the store for two minutes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had nothing to show God for my work\u2014and that was uncomfortable. But in that discomfort I started to feel like, \u201cI think He might like me when I\u2019m unproductive. If I\u2019m looking at what His Word says about His people and about His eye on His people and I\u2019m one of those people\u2014He could actually enjoy me doing nothing for Him and just doing my everyday life with my eyes looking at Him.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There are some people listening right now going, \u201cThat sounds like heresy.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It does. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Because they\u2019re spiritual workaholics. I mean, God\u2019s work is easy to get addicted to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It sure is, and we feel great about it when we\u2019re\u2014I mean\u2014I think that was some of the dialogue I had in the store with God\u2014is, \u201cAm I doing this because Your Word tells me to do it? Am I sharing the Gospel\u2014when it\u2019s quiet, when no one else is around, are my motives that I\u2019m sharing the Gospel because Your Word tells me to do it\u2014or am I sharing the Gospel because I feel better about myself when I do?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf I\u2019m honest, I feel better about myself when I do. So it does sound like heresy, but when we really get familiar with His Word, there is an invitation of us just being a child before God\u2014independent of our work\u2014that He enjoys. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019m just trying to process what you\u2019re saying, and I\u2019m thinking about my busy life right now. There are some who have been led to quietism, to a monastic lifestyle, to a\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Are you coming out? You saying you\u2019re going to be the monastic\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I do not have a reservation for a monastery at this point. [Laughter] But, throughout history there have been those who said, \u201cThis is what life is supposed to be. It is supposed to be the pursuit of the quiet, simple life, and this is where you experience God, where you find God. This is how we\u2019re meant to live.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOthers have said, \u201cNo, we have Kingdom work we\u2019re supposed to be doing, and there\u2019s a Great Commission that we\u2019re called to, and going off to the monastery is just\u2014there\u2019s something wrong with that\u2014self-indulgent. How do you win the world?\u201d So who\u2019s right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Independent of maybe making a judgment on those two, I might say I think the starting place is the quiet place with God. I do believe\u2014I mean, my husband and I are raising our children to be world-changers\u2014we say that. We want our children to change the world\u2014we want them to impact the earth for the Kingdom of God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I do believe some of it is in the details. I think the starting place is the quiet place with God\u2014the starting place is where we bury our roots in ground, and it\u2019s not seen and not necessarily acknowledged, because there the layers come off and we\u2019re really bare before God\u2014sort of like in the garden\u2014this bareness where He sees us and we hide and He goes, \u201cOh, where are you?\u201d Sometimes when we run off and make impact for God we miss that starting place.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Can you explain the difference between how you related to God before you were\u2014I was going to say dusting pottery, but you weren\u2019t supposed to dust it\u2014before you were selling pottery\u2014and the difference in your relationship after that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Before I was running to God frequently showing Him my work for Him. \u201cLook, Daddy\u2014look what I did,\u201d waiting for an approving eye to then kind of give me a little bit more validation to go back. It did sort of feel like this treadmill that just kept getting turned up\u2014I needed to do more, I needed to please Him more\u2014there were more opportunities that sort of felt like a little bit of impact. \u201cWell, five people came to know Jesus this year.\u201d What about next year? \u201cTen.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt wasn\u2019t necessarily a desire to see the Kingdom grow as much as it was feeling like, \u201cI have to earn more of His favor\u2014more of His approval.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think that\u2019s an important distinction, because you\u2019re not really saying that it\u2019s the activity or the work that is the issue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It\u2019s the motive. That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>If there\u2019s a person that I think we\u2019re overlooking here as we\u2019re talking about this, it\u2019s the person who\u2019s listening\u2014maybe a woman, maybe a man\u2014who\u2019s listening going, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m pretty apathetic about God\u2019s work. I\u2019m not really thinking about changing the world. I\u2019m just surviving.\u201d What would you say to him or her?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara:<\/strong> Shortly after\u2014we grew our family really fast\u2014in two years we went from just the two of us to four kids\u2014so there were six of us. There was one afternoon where I was doing laundry, switching the laundry from the washer to the dryer, and thinking to myself\u2014how ironic, \u201cThis cycle just keeps happening over and over and over again, and I\u2019m going to do this again tomorrow.\u201d Also recognizing that my kids had developed this sophisticated system of sometimes if they didn\u2019t want to put their clothes away they just went right back into the wash\u2014so we were washing them, quite literally, again and again and again. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just was talking to myself going, \u201cThis is terrible! I have to do this again tomorrow and again the next day.\u201d And I heard this whisper in my spirit\u2014which is really just His Word\u2014I heard, \u201cI like it when you\u2019re weak.\u201d Which is 2 Corinthians 12:9, \u201cHis power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d It was in that moment\u2014in the laundry room\u2014where I felt like, \u201cHe sees this. He\u2019s seeing me right now. His eyes are on me right now.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSomething shifted about my day. The normal everyday trip to the bank or to the library started to take on a little bit new shape for me. If I had God\u2019s eyes on me there, wouldn\u2019t that be an opportunity for communion and not just another day to do another thing? All of a sudden it was like, \u201cHe\u2019s actually not distant and hardened. He is wanting to engage with even the most mundane parts of my day.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I started my day by going on a walk\u2014I don\u2019t normally take walks. I went for that walk for communion purposes, just to say, \u201cOkay, God. You know who I am, You know my address, You know what I do. I just want to take a walk with You and have a conversation.\u201d I do think in this busy activity, accomplishment-filled life that we can all live\u2014I think we do need more of these islands, like you\u2019re talking about. I like the way you said that a moment ago, Sara. You talked about on your way you realized that could be an opportunity for communion with God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Not just run errands, but experience Him\u2014as you did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>I would call that the white space. I think we have so much access to activity\u2014even not physical activity\u2014but let\u2019s just talk about our phones; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have so much access to other people\u2019s lives\u2014to checking in\u2014we\u2019re kind of constantly available and \u201con\u201d. Yet there is this subtle in-the-backdrop invitation always from God to talk to Him in the white space\u2014and to even actually acknowledge that there was white space at 6:30 a.m. You know, that there\u2019s white space during pockets of our day that we might otherwise crowd out\u2014and we might actually crowd it out because\u2014I know for me sometimes I feel uncomfortable being bare before God. I feel uncomfortable with the white space\u2014who I am before Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just you, Sara. I think we all feel that uncomfortableness when we\u2019re encountering God\u2014or we have the opportunity to address Him, talk to Him, have a conversation with Him\u2014when it doesn\u2019t fit the way we think relating to God should look. So often we think that we need to meet God when we\u2019re reading the Bible or having a quiet time or some kind of structured format\u2014but just to have a conversation as you just described\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014when you\u2019re putting the laundry from the washer into the dryer\u2014to me that\u2019s experiencing a relationship with Him in the way that He wants to. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that struck me about your book is you were talking about you being God\u2019s friend. What I realized when I read that is I\u2019ve always thought of Him as my friend, but I\u2019ve never thought about being God\u2019s friend. What is the difference in being His friend, as opposed to just seeing Him as my friend? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, if I just see Him as my friend it can be a one-way street\u2014I can go to Him for what I need\u2014I can be asking Him to help me\u2014but if I\u2019m God\u2019s friend and it\u2019s a two-way street, then I go to Him to listen to Him and to hear what He has to say, and not just me going and giving Him my list or asking Him for help. Therefore, you can be God\u2019s friend and have a relationship with Him and a conversation with Him when you\u2019re doing the laundry or when you\u2019re doing a thousand other things throughout the day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s being aware of Him in the everyday moments.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right. I think of\u2014you know, some of the dialogue now about social media is like, \u201cJust don\u2019t do this much,\u201d or, \u201cShut off your phone,\u201d or, \u201cBe more present.\u201d And while I think those things are really helpful, I think, for me, also acknowledging that it\u2019s not so much not doing that, but that there is the accessibility to the heart of God during those times where we could pray and hear from Him. I might get a little nudge, \u201cGo take your nine-year-old on a walk outside,\u201d that I wouldn\u2019t have thought of otherwise, if I\u2019m scrolling Facebook and figuring out what my friends down the street are doing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do think that friendship with God is accessible to us in more of the unconventional times of our day, and it\u2019s a lot more attractive for me to put down my phone if it means, \u201cOh, there might be a conversation with God,\u201d or a way that I could engage with His Word that\u2019s a little bit different than just, \u201cPut down my phone because I shouldn\u2019t do that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>As I was going on my walk this morning, on my way to the end of the road I talked with God\u2014on the way back I listened. I opened my Bible instead of taking my phone with me. I left my phone\u2014and I have to tell you, I missed it. I was like, \u201cOh my goodness! I\u2019m out here in the wilderness without a phone! Without access to the Web!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>\u201cWould anyone ever find me?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I\u2019ve got God\u2014think about that\u2014how foolish is that? But Psalm chapter 7, verse 1, says this, \u201cO LORD, my God, in You do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then David goes on to declare to the Lord, \u201cLORD, if I\u2019ve done wrong against people, if I\u2019ve plundered my enemy, would you hand me over to someone to plunder me?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI mean, it was an interesting dialogue in Psalm 7. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo this dialogue you\u2019re talking about is God as our friend, but us being God\u2019s friend and being open to what He has to say to us. I think you\u2019re pointing us in the right direction. Bob, I think folks\u2014male or female\u2014need to pick up a copy of Sara\u2019s book and just maybe take a few moments without the phone, without the Internet, without the TV. It may have to occur early in the morning, when very few others are up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Why are you looking at me like that when you say that? [Laughter] I\u2019m just thinking, the way they can get Sara\u2019s book is by phone or Internet, so\u2014 [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>You can mail in your order form.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You can, that\u2019s true. It\u2019s called <em>Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed.<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have copies in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. You can order the book from us online at FamilyLifeToday.com or call to order at 1-800-358-6329. That\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word \u201cTODAY.\u201d Again, Sara\u2019s book is called <em>Unseen<\/em>. Find out more online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or order by phone at 1-800-358-6329. That\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, what we\u2019re talking about here is what all of life flows from. Our marriages, our family relationships\u2014all that we do in life flows out of what\u2019s going on in the secret places in our hearts\u2014and when what\u2019s going on there is good and healthy and holy\u2014then that has an impact on everything else in life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen what\u2019s going on in our hearts is unsettled or anxious, that has an impact on everything else in our lives as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere at FamilyLife we\u2014daily\u2014provide practical, biblical help and hope that is founded on the importance of a vital relationship with the God who created you. Our goal is to effectively develop godly marriages and families, because we believe those godly marriages and families can change the world one home at a time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener, you have the opportunity to help accelerate and expand the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> when you make a donation to support this ministry. Your donation enables us to reach more people more often with more help and more hope. We appreciate those of you who made today\u2019s program possible for all who are listening\u2014and if you\u2019re a regular <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener\u2014we\u2019d love to have you join the team and help make tomorrow\u2019s program possible for all who will be listening then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can donate to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> online at FamilyLifeToday.com, you can call to donate at 1-800-FL-TODAY, or you can mail your donation to us at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at P.O. Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow we want to talk more about our relationship with God\u2014specifically talk about how we practice the presence of God in the midst of the mundane. Sara Hagerty\u2019s going to join us again tomorrow. Hope you can join us as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with some help today from Justin Adams. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHelp for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2017 FamilyLife. 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Sara Hagerty knows how you feel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>We grew our family really fast\u2014in two years we went from just the two of us to four kids\u2014so there were six of us. There was one afternoon where I was doing laundry, switching the laundry from the washer to the dryer and thinking to myself\u2014how ironic, \u201cThis is terrible!\u00a0 I have to do this again tomorrow and again the next day!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI heard this whisper in my spirit\u2014which is really just His Word\u2014I heard, \u201cI like it when you\u2019re weak.\u201d It was in that moment in the laundry room where I felt like, <em>He sees this<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, October 16<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. When the daily challenges of life are coming at you relentlessly, how do you keep in mind that there\u2019s a God whose love is just as relentless? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll talk about that today with Sara Hagerty. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I have a sense that you and I may just be kind of sitting in and listening to a conversation today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We\u2019re not window dressing, that\u2019s for sure. [Laughter] We\u2019re at the table with a couple of delightful women. My wife, Barbara, joins us again. Welcome back, sweetie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Thanks, I\u2019m most glad to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She likes being on the broadcast, and I have listeners coming up and telling me, \u201cWhy are you even on the broadcast anymore?\u201d [Laughter] \u201cPut Barbara on there more!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur special guest today\u2014Sara Hagerty\u2014joins us. Sara, I\u2019ve watched Barbara read your book as we\u2019ve been driving down the road on a couple of road trips we\u2019ve made recently\u2014and I can tell you, she thoroughly enjoyed it\u2014and so have I.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Thank you. I\u2019m so honored to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She is the author of a book called <em>Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed<\/em>. Now think about that for a moment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I just want to know why you\u2019ve loved this book so much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>I\u2019ve loved it for several reasons. One of the reasons that I love this book is that I think it speaks to what so many women feel presently and have felt for generations\u2014because so many women\u2019s lives are somewhat hidden\u2014especially if you have kids and you\u2019re not working outside the home. So your world feels unnoticed\u2014you feel unseen\u2014you feel hidden. \u201cDoes anybody know? Does anybody care? Am I making any kind of a difference at all in the world?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You had a few decades like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>I had a few decades like that\u2014so I think that\u2019s why it resonated with me. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> The issue of identity\u2014I think for men and women\u2014is a relevant subject today. I think men tend to lean their ladder against the wall of achievement and success, just like we\u2019re training women to do more and more today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo Sara, you\u2019ve tapped into something really, really important. Sara is married to her husband, Nate, and what year were you married? I didn\u2019t have that information\u2014I\u2019ll just ask you here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>We got married in 2001. We\u2019re coming up on 16 years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There you go. You have six kids\u2014four of whom are adopted.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>A couple from Ethiopia, and a couple from Uganda.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We\u2019ll talk more about that later. Let\u2019s talk about when you graduated from college and decided to change the world. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Isn\u2019t that what everybody does?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Yes, yes it is actually.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>A lot of us thought we were going to change the world\u2014no doubt about it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>What happened in your life as you went off on a crusade to change that world?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>I was in full-time ministry\u2014a wonderful ministry\u2014reaching out to high school kids\u2014non-believing high school kids\u2014and sharing the Gospel with them. As a part of that ministry I was seeing lives changed, and when you start to get a little taste of watching lives change it is exhilarating.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo in my heart I thought, \u201cThis is what life in God is like. We change lives, we make impact\u201d\u2014and it is. But as the years went on I would find myself being in conversations with high school kids\u2014sharing the Gospel\u2014talking to them about Jesus, and over time I started to think, \u201cI don\u2019t really know this God that I\u2019m talking to them about in the way that I\u2019m talking about Him.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs my husband and I were facing just some of the stuff that comes with being newly married and some personal difficulties in our own lives\u2014kind of navigating, \u201cWhat does it look like to be in our 20s and be believers?\u201d I started to realize, \u201cI have a lot of identity wrapped in these young people coming to know Jesus, and I don\u2019t know that I know what it feels like to have His eyes on me when I\u2019m not making an impact.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Barbara, you went through something like this as well. You worked with college students at the University of South Carolina with Cru, and then I swept you off your feet. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr maybe better stated\u2014you completely swept me off my feet\u2014and I carted you away to Boulder, Colorado, where we worked with high school students, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Oh, wonderful!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>We did it for a year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How did you experience what she\u2019s talking about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Well, I think it was very much the same, because I too felt that thrill of seeing lives changed, but we moved three or four times in those first few years of marriage, so I was constantly starting over in those first few years, and then we started having kids and made the decision that I would focus on raising our children. That meant I wasn\u2019t involved in reaching kids for Christ, I wasn\u2019t going on the high school or college campus anymore.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s when I started to feel what you started to feel. \u201cWho am I? What did God make me to do, and how do I find my purpose?\u201d I knew I was called to be a mom, and I didn\u2019t want to do anything else but raise our kids\u2014I was fully committed to being involved and engaged in their lives\u2014but there was an identity shift.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Share with our listeners and with Sara\u2014because she doesn\u2019t know about this\u2014share with them about the piece that you wrote in your journal back in 1985.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>A week ago I started digging through some books on my shelf. I wasn\u2019t the best journaler, but I found this journal and I pulled it out, and I wanted to just kind of flip through it. I haven\u2019t looked at it in decades. I found this entry that I had written in 1985, which was the summer after we\u2019d had our sixth child. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were at a Cru conference, we\u2019d taken all of our kids, and the very first day of the conference I woke up and I was so excited to go to the meeting, because that was where I just felt alive again. Not that I didn\u2019t at home, but it was that reconnecting with that part of my life that had been so fun for several years. I was excited about going to the meetings and being a part of the praise and worship, and the youngest kid was sick, and I couldn\u2019t take her to childcare. So the others went to childcare. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere I was in the apartment, and so I wrote in my journal, \u201cI really wanted to go to the meetings today; I really wanted to be a part of the praise and worship, but here I am in the apartment alone\u2014again. I\u2019m stuck with a sick kid. Being a mother doesn\u2019t stop. My kids\u2019 needs never stop. And so, here I am.\u201d Then the last line that I wrote was interesting, because I don\u2019t remember thinking this or writing this, but I wrote, \u201cBut it\u2019s okay. I\u2019m not feeling sorry for myself, because I know I can worship God anywhere.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI understood what the truth was, but it still was an adjustment to figure out, \u201cWho am I in this time in my life when I have these hopes\u2014or these dreams\u2014or these desires, but my kids keep me grounded at home because they need me, and I\u2019m committed to them?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Sara, that kind of described your life too, didn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It did. You know, it was different, I think, for me as kids came much later. So I had this transition period from \u201cchanging the world\u201d\u2014so to speak\u2014to recognizing, \u201cSomething\u2019s not right on the inside. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI feel uncomfortable with this God that I\u2019m talking to other people about,\u201d and I had emotional integrity enough to go, \u201cI have to get alone with this God.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy husband and I both decided I was going to take a hiatus from ministry and I was just working at a little boutique. I didn\u2019t have children at that time, but it was the same kind of wrestle\u2014feeling a little bit like if I had continued on in full-time ministry I wouldn\u2019t have been integrous\u2014and I think I wouldn\u2019t have been walking out what God had for me\u2014but how is it that He could actually call me to work at a little boutique, not change anybody\u2019s life, and maybe sell five things in a day?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor me the wrestle was in that time feeling a little bit stuck not changing the world, but also asking myself and asking God, \u201cWhat do you have for me right here, because I think that this could be holy, I feel like it could be holy,\u201d sort of like you felt in that apartment, \u201cGod, tell me what that looks like.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You actually found God in the boutique.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>I found God in the boutique.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How\u2019d He show up?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It was a North Barracks Road shopping center in Charlottesville, Virginia. It sold imported French and Italian pottery\u2014and truly, I maybe only had five customers in a day. They said, \u201cDon\u2019t clean. Cottage pottery looks better when it\u2019s dusty.\u201d So I literally had nothing to do in the store. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI brought my Bible in\u2014and it was in one of those times that I just knew that there was an invitation. You know how you have kind of in the back of your mind, \u201cThis is an invitation from God.\u201d So I brought my Bible in and I started to just ask God, \u201cShow me Your face in this Word. This Word that I\u2019ve read\u2014that I\u2019ve told so many people about\u2014I\u2019ve given so many talks about the Gospel. Show me Your face here.\u201d I just had time to dialogue with God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn that time\u2014there\u2019s an awkwardness that happens when you don\u2019t have anything to show God. I didn\u2019t have\u2014I couldn\u2019t say, in this one day, come home from work and say, \u201cBabe, I led this person to Jesus.\u201d This person was in the store for two minutes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had nothing to show God for my work\u2014and that was uncomfortable. But in that discomfort I started to feel like, \u201cI think He might like me when I\u2019m unproductive. If I\u2019m looking at what His Word says about His people and about His eye on His people and I\u2019m one of those people\u2014He could actually enjoy me doing nothing for Him and just doing my everyday life with my eyes looking at Him.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There are some people listening right now going, \u201cThat sounds like heresy.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It does. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Because they\u2019re spiritual workaholics. I mean, God\u2019s work is easy to get addicted to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It sure is, and we feel great about it when we\u2019re\u2014I mean\u2014I think that was some of the dialogue I had in the store with God\u2014is, \u201cAm I doing this because Your Word tells me to do it? Am I sharing the Gospel\u2014when it\u2019s quiet, when no one else is around, are my motives that I\u2019m sharing the Gospel because Your Word tells me to do it\u2014or am I sharing the Gospel because I feel better about myself when I do?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf I\u2019m honest, I feel better about myself when I do. So it does sound like heresy, but when we really get familiar with His Word, there is an invitation of us just being a child before God\u2014independent of our work\u2014that He enjoys. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019m just trying to process what you\u2019re saying, and I\u2019m thinking about my busy life right now. There are some who have been led to quietism, to a monastic lifestyle, to a\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Are you coming out? You saying you\u2019re going to be the monastic\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I do not have a reservation for a monastery at this point. [Laughter] But, throughout history there have been those who said, \u201cThis is what life is supposed to be. It is supposed to be the pursuit of the quiet, simple life, and this is where you experience God, where you find God. This is how we\u2019re meant to live.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOthers have said, \u201cNo, we have Kingdom work we\u2019re supposed to be doing, and there\u2019s a Great Commission that we\u2019re called to, and going off to the monastery is just\u2014there\u2019s something wrong with that\u2014self-indulgent. How do you win the world?\u201d So who\u2019s right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Independent of maybe making a judgment on those two, I might say I think the starting place is the quiet place with God. I do believe\u2014I mean, my husband and I are raising our children to be world-changers\u2014we say that. We want our children to change the world\u2014we want them to impact the earth for the Kingdom of God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I do believe some of it is in the details. I think the starting place is the quiet place with God\u2014the starting place is where we bury our roots in ground, and it\u2019s not seen and not necessarily acknowledged, because there the layers come off and we\u2019re really bare before God\u2014sort of like in the garden\u2014this bareness where He sees us and we hide and He goes, \u201cOh, where are you?\u201d Sometimes when we run off and make impact for God we miss that starting place.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Can you explain the difference between how you related to God before you were\u2014I was going to say dusting pottery, but you weren\u2019t supposed to dust it\u2014before you were selling pottery\u2014and the difference in your relationship after that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Before I was running to God frequently showing Him my work for Him. \u201cLook, Daddy\u2014look what I did,\u201d waiting for an approving eye to then kind of give me a little bit more validation to go back. It did sort of feel like this treadmill that just kept getting turned up\u2014I needed to do more, I needed to please Him more\u2014there were more opportunities that sort of felt like a little bit of impact. \u201cWell, five people came to know Jesus this year.\u201d What about next year? \u201cTen.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt wasn\u2019t necessarily a desire to see the Kingdom grow as much as it was feeling like, \u201cI have to earn more of His favor\u2014more of His approval.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think that\u2019s an important distinction, because you\u2019re not really saying that it\u2019s the activity or the work that is the issue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>It\u2019s the motive. That\u2019s exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>If there\u2019s a person that I think we\u2019re overlooking here as we\u2019re talking about this, it\u2019s the person who\u2019s listening\u2014maybe a woman, maybe a man\u2014who\u2019s listening going, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m pretty apathetic about God\u2019s work. I\u2019m not really thinking about changing the world. I\u2019m just surviving.\u201d What would you say to him or her?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara:<\/strong> Shortly after\u2014we grew our family really fast\u2014in two years we went from just the two of us to four kids\u2014so there were six of us. There was one afternoon where I was doing laundry, switching the laundry from the washer to the dryer, and thinking to myself\u2014how ironic, \u201cThis cycle just keeps happening over and over and over again, and I\u2019m going to do this again tomorrow.\u201d Also recognizing that my kids had developed this sophisticated system of sometimes if they didn\u2019t want to put their clothes away they just went right back into the wash\u2014so we were washing them, quite literally, again and again and again. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just was talking to myself going, \u201cThis is terrible! I have to do this again tomorrow and again the next day.\u201d And I heard this whisper in my spirit\u2014which is really just His Word\u2014I heard, \u201cI like it when you\u2019re weak.\u201d Which is 2 Corinthians 12:9, \u201cHis power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d It was in that moment\u2014in the laundry room\u2014where I felt like, \u201cHe sees this. He\u2019s seeing me right now. His eyes are on me right now.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSomething shifted about my day. The normal everyday trip to the bank or to the library started to take on a little bit new shape for me. If I had God\u2019s eyes on me there, wouldn\u2019t that be an opportunity for communion and not just another day to do another thing? All of a sudden it was like, \u201cHe\u2019s actually not distant and hardened. He is wanting to engage with even the most mundane parts of my day.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I started my day by going on a walk\u2014I don\u2019t normally take walks. I went for that walk for communion purposes, just to say, \u201cOkay, God. You know who I am, You know my address, You know what I do. I just want to take a walk with You and have a conversation.\u201d I do think in this busy activity, accomplishment-filled life that we can all live\u2014I think we do need more of these islands, like you\u2019re talking about. I like the way you said that a moment ago, Sara. You talked about on your way you realized that could be an opportunity for communion with God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Not just run errands, but experience Him\u2014as you did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>I would call that the white space. I think we have so much access to activity\u2014even not physical activity\u2014but let\u2019s just talk about our phones; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have so much access to other people\u2019s lives\u2014to checking in\u2014we\u2019re kind of constantly available and \u201con\u201d. Yet there is this subtle in-the-backdrop invitation always from God to talk to Him in the white space\u2014and to even actually acknowledge that there was white space at 6:30 a.m. You know, that there\u2019s white space during pockets of our day that we might otherwise crowd out\u2014and we might actually crowd it out because\u2014I know for me sometimes I feel uncomfortable being bare before God. I feel uncomfortable with the white space\u2014who I am before Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just you, Sara. I think we all feel that uncomfortableness when we\u2019re encountering God\u2014or we have the opportunity to address Him, talk to Him, have a conversation with Him\u2014when it doesn\u2019t fit the way we think relating to God should look. So often we think that we need to meet God when we\u2019re reading the Bible or having a quiet time or some kind of structured format\u2014but just to have a conversation as you just described\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014when you\u2019re putting the laundry from the washer into the dryer\u2014to me that\u2019s experiencing a relationship with Him in the way that He wants to. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that struck me about your book is you were talking about you being God\u2019s friend. What I realized when I read that is I\u2019ve always thought of Him as my friend, but I\u2019ve never thought about being God\u2019s friend. What is the difference in being His friend, as opposed to just seeing Him as my friend? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, if I just see Him as my friend it can be a one-way street\u2014I can go to Him for what I need\u2014I can be asking Him to help me\u2014but if I\u2019m God\u2019s friend and it\u2019s a two-way street, then I go to Him to listen to Him and to hear what He has to say, and not just me going and giving Him my list or asking Him for help. Therefore, you can be God\u2019s friend and have a relationship with Him and a conversation with Him when you\u2019re doing the laundry or when you\u2019re doing a thousand other things throughout the day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s being aware of Him in the everyday moments.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly right. I think of\u2014you know, some of the dialogue now about social media is like, \u201cJust don\u2019t do this much,\u201d or, \u201cShut off your phone,\u201d or, \u201cBe more present.\u201d And while I think those things are really helpful, I think, for me, also acknowledging that it\u2019s not so much not doing that, but that there is the accessibility to the heart of God during those times where we could pray and hear from Him. I might get a little nudge, \u201cGo take your nine-year-old on a walk outside,\u201d that I wouldn\u2019t have thought of otherwise, if I\u2019m scrolling Facebook and figuring out what my friends down the street are doing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do think that friendship with God is accessible to us in more of the unconventional times of our day, and it\u2019s a lot more attractive for me to put down my phone if it means, \u201cOh, there might be a conversation with God,\u201d or a way that I could engage with His Word that\u2019s a little bit different than just, \u201cPut down my phone because I shouldn\u2019t do that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>As I was going on my walk this morning, on my way to the end of the road I talked with God\u2014on the way back I listened. I opened my Bible instead of taking my phone with me. I left my phone\u2014and I have to tell you, I missed it. I was like, \u201cOh my goodness! I\u2019m out here in the wilderness without a phone! Without access to the Web!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>\u201cWould anyone ever find me?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I\u2019ve got God\u2014think about that\u2014how foolish is that? But Psalm chapter 7, verse 1, says this, \u201cO LORD, my God, in You do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then David goes on to declare to the Lord, \u201cLORD, if I\u2019ve done wrong against people, if I\u2019ve plundered my enemy, would you hand me over to someone to plunder me?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI mean, it was an interesting dialogue in Psalm 7. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo this dialogue you\u2019re talking about is God as our friend, but us being God\u2019s friend and being open to what He has to say to us. I think you\u2019re pointing us in the right direction. Bob, I think folks\u2014male or female\u2014need to pick up a copy of Sara\u2019s book and just maybe take a few moments without the phone, without the Internet, without the TV. It may have to occur early in the morning, when very few others are up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Why are you looking at me like that when you say that? [Laughter] I\u2019m just thinking, the way they can get Sara\u2019s book is by phone or Internet, so\u2014 [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sara: <\/strong>You can mail in your order form.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You can, that\u2019s true. It\u2019s called <em>Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed.<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have copies in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. You can order the book from us online at FamilyLifeToday.com or call to order at 1-800-358-6329. That\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word \u201cTODAY.\u201d Again, Sara\u2019s book is called <em>Unseen<\/em>. Find out more online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or order by phone at 1-800-358-6329. That\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, what we\u2019re talking about here is what all of life flows from. Our marriages, our family relationships\u2014all that we do in life flows out of what\u2019s going on in the secret places in our hearts\u2014and when what\u2019s going on there is good and healthy and holy\u2014then that has an impact on everything else in life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen what\u2019s going on in our hearts is unsettled or anxious, that has an impact on everything else in our lives as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere at FamilyLife we\u2014daily\u2014provide practical, biblical help and hope that is founded on the importance of a vital relationship with the God who created you. Our goal is to effectively develop godly marriages and families, because we believe those godly marriages and families can change the world one home at a time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener, you have the opportunity to help accelerate and expand the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> when you make a donation to support this ministry. Your donation enables us to reach more people more often with more help and more hope. We appreciate those of you who made today\u2019s program possible for all who are listening\u2014and if you\u2019re a regular <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener\u2014we\u2019d love to have you join the team and help make tomorrow\u2019s program possible for all who will be listening then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can donate to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> online at FamilyLifeToday.com, you can call to donate at 1-800-FL-TODAY, or you can mail your donation to us at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at P.O. Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow we want to talk more about our relationship with God\u2014specifically talk about how we practice the presence of God in the midst of the mundane. Sara Hagerty\u2019s going to join us again tomorrow. 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