60. What If God Is Forming You While You Wait? With Jessica L. Morris

What if the season you keep calling “waiting” is actually a season of becoming? In this episode of Not Just Waiting, I’m joined by writer and spiritual director Jessica L. Morris for a deeply honest conversation about recovery, identity, disappointment, calling, and learning to trust God when life doesn’t look the way we thought it would. Jessica shares how growing up in a family impacted by alcoholism shaped the way she understood God, how recovery changed the trajectory of her life, and how seminary helped her begin to see God—and herself—in a completely different way. We talk about: • What God may be forming in us during seasons that feel ordinary or stuck • Releasing the identity and expectations we thought would define us • Learning to let God determine our identity instead of our past, circumstances, or other people • Why the stories of people like Abraham and Moses remind us that God’s work often takes much longer than we realize • The difference between doing our part and trying to control the outcome • What it looks like to surrender our timelines and trust God with what comes next • Finding Christ in the middle of complicated faith stories • Why waiting can be an invitation to look around and notice what God is already doing Jessica’s story is a beautiful reminder that our beginnings don’t have to determine our endings—and that God can use even the parts of our stories we wish had been different. If you’re in a season of waiting, uncertainty, disappointment, or becoming, I think this conversation will give you a little more hope for what God might be doing beneath the surface. Find Jessica at JessicaLMorris.com (http://jessicalmorris.com) and explore her books and spiritual direction practice. If this episode encouraged you, share it with a friend who is waiting, too. Follow Not Just Waiting wherever you listen to podcasts and join me on Substack (https://reannahoffmann.substack.com/) for deeper reflections and encouragement for the in-between.