Have you ever felt like you’re falling behind in life? Like everyone else is getting married, starting families, launching ministries, or stepping into their callings—while you’re still waiting?
If so, you are not alone. And more importantly, you’re not too late.
This week on The Love Offering podcast, I had the joy of speaking with Rebecca George about her new book, You’re Not Too Late: Trusting God’s Timing in a Hurry-Up World. In a culture that tells us to hustle, strive, and “make it happen,” Rebecca offers a beautiful invitation to wait well—to rest in God’s presence, release resentment, and find joy in the meantime.
Together, we talk about:
- How to bring our disappointments honestly before God
- Finding contentment even when our desires are unmet
- How to turn envy and doubt into deeper trust
- Forming life-giving habits that help us flourish in every season
If you’re in a season of longing or wondering when it will be your turn, I know this episode will speak to your heart.
Because you’re not behind. You’re exactly where God wants you—and He is never late.
Gratefully,
Rachael
P.S. Share this episode with a friend who needs a reminder that God’s timing is always good—and always right on time.
Takeaways
Trusting in God’s timing is essential for personal growth.
Longing can lead to more longing, but it can also be a sacred place of growth.
Envy and comparison are common struggles during waiting seasons.
Her win is not my loss; God’s blessings for others do not diminish His faithfulness to me.
It’s important to acknowledge and bring our longings to God.
Practical steps can help manage toxic thought patterns during waiting.
Living in the meantime can lead to unexpected blessings and growth.
God’s timing is often different from our expectations, but it is always perfect.
We must confront our thoughts and beliefs that do not align with God’s truth.
God’s love and faithfulness are unchanging, providing hope in our waiting.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Love Offering Podcast
00:56 Welcoming Rebecca George and Discussing Longing
05:00 Trusting God in the Waiting
10:16 Navigating Envy and Comparison
15:21 Practical Steps for Managing Longing
19:09 The Importance of Acknowledging Longings
21:36 Finding Purpose in the Waiting
24:22 Reflections on God’s Timing
28:34 The Enemy’s Lies and God’s Truth
29:36 God’s Unchanging Love
31:48 Closing Thoughts and Prayer
Transcript (AI Generated)
Rachael Adams (00:01.866)
Welcome to the Love Offering Podcast. I’m your host, Rachel Adams, author of Everyday Prayers for Love, learning to love God, others, and even yourself. Each week we dive into meaningful conversations about how to live out the greatest commandment, loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Whether through inspiring stories, practical tips, or biblical truths, I hope to encourage you to love boldly, live faithfully, and reflect God’s love in your everyday life.
Today I’m thrilled to welcome back Rebecca George to the show. Rebecca is the author of You’re Not Too Late, a message we all need to hear. If you’ve ever felt stuck in the waiting, waiting for purpose, waiting for health, waiting for a dream to come true, this episode is for you. Rebecca gently and powerfully reminds us that God’s timing is always perfect and that our longing seasons can be sacred places of growth and trust.
Well hello friend and welcome back to the Love Offering Podcast, your regular around here.
Rebecca George (01:00.53)
Hi, Rachel. I’m so excited to be back. I think this is my third time, right? A million years ago when we were just starting out and then when my first book came out and then now I’m back. So this is so fun.
Rachael Adams (01:12.878)
Yeah. You know, as before we hit record, I was, caught myself saying like, I trust in God’s timing, you know, on this one thing that I’m waiting for. But then I’m like, but do I actually, or do I just want to run ahead of him? Or I feel like I’m too late or I’m not going to get what I want if, if, if like this one thing is like standing in my way. And so I think that that just is something that we say quite a bit in our lives and don’t even realize that we’re saying. So I’m excited about today’s conversation and really to dive into this topic with you.
Rebecca George (01:43.222)
Yeah, yeah, me too. It’s just such a critical piece in our lives, I say in the book, that longing leads to more longing, right? So even when we get to experience something that our heart’s been desiring for maybe quite some time, something else kind of pops up. So this is something that will battle, I think, until we meet Jesus. However, I think there’s a lot we can do to just, yeah, continue to trust Him and be faithful in the meanwhile.
Rachael Adams (02:11.438)
So I think that statement in the title of your book, you’re not too late. It’s like both comforting and really hope-filled at the same time. And so what place were you in and maybe many places of like, this was one of the cry of your heart that you needed to hear at the time.
Rebecca George (02:28.874)
Yeah, yeah. Rachel, you’ve been such a part of this process, which has been so fun. I love that we get to walk alongside each other as we like discover the books that God’s calling us to write. And I remember when I first started dreaming about what would come after my first book, Do the Thing, I kept reflecting back on my season of singleness. I got married later in my twenties. I had been a bridesmaid 12 times when I married Dustin had planned all the bachelorette parties and baby showers and all of those things. And I felt like I had a lot to say to single women, trusting in God’s timing, feeling like, are there any men out there who love Jesus? And all of those just tensions that we manage when we get married a little later in life. And there’s a lot to that conversation. But as I continued to just search my own heart, as well as just have conversations with other women in my life about how they’ve seen God work in my story and what might be worth writing about this idea, this bigger idea of longing kept coming up. And I began to discover in myself and in others that it touches so many parts of our lives, whether it be a relational longing, which is probably more of what we think of, of maybe the desire to be married, to have kids, to become a grandparent, to restore a relationship that feels broken all of those relational things, and then the vocational side of things as well, like our desire to grow in a career, to lead a team, to start a business, to get involved in a ministry or within our local church. There’s a million ways that this can look, but the challenges in trusting in God’s timing in the midst of those, a lot of them are the same, right? It’s things like jealousy, despair, doubt, like will God ever show up, resentment over how the story is written from God’s perspective that’s different than maybe what we would have chosen. know, lot of those tensions and challenges are the same regardless of what the longing is. And so I constrained myself to 10, there 10 chapters in the book, but there’s so much more I could have said about this topic because it does pervade so much of our thinking as we are just navigating a broken world.
Rachael Adams (04:47.862)
Yeah, well, I can’t wait to hear more about all of that, but we’re going to take a brief break to hear a word from today’s sponsor. And when we come back, we’ll talk about finding purpose even in the waiting.
Welcome back. are talking with Rebecca George, the author of Your Not Too Late. And in your book, you talk about how longing is part of every season, whether it’s for a relationship, a calling or healing. So what helped you personally learn to trust God with your longings?
Rebecca George (05:16.632)
Yeah, I’ll give you a story on this one because I think this just so beautifully illustrates how God is just at work when we can’t always see it, right? You know the story, Rachel, but I shared in the book many years ago, I went on a hike, which is something I do often. I live in East Tennessee right outside of the Smokies and I went on a hike with a friend one day and was just very much in that place of despair of like, all my people are getting married. I’m looking to my right or to my left at how God is seemingly providing for them in a way that I would desire and just having to grapple with that really a lot. And I remember we went to a trail that I’d never done before. We hiked and talked quite a bit. We were both walking through challenging seasons, but a good bit of the hike, I just silently prayed. And along the way we stopped quite a few times, but one time we stopped at this bench that had a waterfall in the background. It was so beautiful and we took some pictures and after we left the trail that day, I posted one of those photos to my Instagram and really didn’t think another thing about it. But fast forward a few years, I was dating my now husband, Dustin, and he calls me one day. We’re like at the point where we’re about to start looking at rings. We knew we were going to marry each other. We were at that kind of place and our relationship. And he said, are you sitting down? Cause I’ve just sent you a couple of pictures and I want to tell you a story before you look at them. But this is just so wild, but I think I’ve figured out and he recounted a story to me of a day that he went fishing, which is his very favorite thing to do in the Smokies is fly fish. He’d gone to one of his favorite trails, hiked up and had fished most of the day. And when he came down and was about to hike down the trail, started raining. was just kind of a dreary day. And he was having a similar moment of like, will it ever be my turn? All of my people are getting married and was just really struggling with that. along the way, just prayed for his future wife stopped at a bench, as he was on his way out from, from the trail. And he said, I vividly remember sitting on that bench praying for my future spouse and there came a moment when I was ready to leave and he said, I just took a picture of this bench kind of in faith that one day I would bring my wife there and show her like, this is one of the places where I prayed for you when I was really struggling. And he said, this morning I was scrolling your Instagram and I came across this photo and it jogged that memory for me. And so I went back in the archives of my photos to like 10 years before and found the same photo and God had sent us to the very same bench on the very same trail and all of the Smoky Mountains on two very distinct days when we were both struggling with having any clue as to how God would write the end of our story. And if either of us would ever get married, and that’s actually where he proposed to me, which everybody’s like, well, duh, where else could he have done that, right?
Rebecca George (08:25.546)
A testimony to me of how we truly don’t ever know what God is orchestrating behind the scenes and what he’s weaving together from his perfect sovereign in control vantage point that we only know in part. And, you know, again, my longing in Rebecca’s life didn’t end the day that he proposed and we got married and that longing was fulfilled. But I do often think back on that as just such a reminder of his faithfulness in the future when I’m now experiencing different types of longing. So yeah, I think that part of my story was a huge, you know, just played a huge role in God kind of weaving this message together.
Rachael Adams (09:11.69)
That’s so beautiful. It gave me goosebumps. I’ve actually, as much as we’ve talked, I’ve never heard that story. No! so good. And there’s so much hope in that. Just knowing God is working. Whatever you’re going through, however much pain you’re in right now, God is working behind the scenes and he has a beautiful plan in store for you. That is just so encouraging. I know I needed to hear that in a I’m sure everyone listening did as well. And so I think many of us, mentioned this, that we feel stuck in envy and doubt and even isolation when we’re waiting. So how does your book guide them through these emotional challenges in a biblical way?
Rebecca George (09:49.238)
I think envy and comparison and those types of challenges are so common as we talk about waiting because we’re looking around at other people’s lives, getting to experience the thing that we want. And then that’s naturally the thing that happens in our hearts. And so, I don’t think either you or I are here to say like, do these three things and you’ll never experience it again. However, I think it is important to step back and consider like, where do we turn when we begin to struggle there? And I would say a few things. The first one that’s been the most helpful to me is recognizing that however God is at work in my friend’s life, who’s having a baby when I haven’t become a mob yet or whatever that challenges for you her win is not my loss. Right? So recognizing that God’s blessing to someone else is not to the exclusion of his faithfulness in your own life. That has been a really powerful truth that I’ve had to point myself back to many, many times. And when I’ve had to do that, I think our hearts don’t have a whole lot of time to decide how we’re going to respond. Right? When I am hit with maybe that pang of envy or comparison, it has to be a quick decision for me to go, all right, I have a choice in how I’ll respond to this. And so I’m gonna remember that her win is not my loss and God is doing something in my life today as well. And I have to trust that however He’s refining me and working in and through me through the waiting is a necessary part for wherever He’s taking me next, right? And so, I mean, that’s not always an easy thing to navigate or work through. But I think when we bump up against those opportunities to have an experience, jealousy and envy, think number one, we have to take it to the Lord. I know, you and I both grew up in like sweet Southern culture where sometimes it’s not always like the easiest thing to confront conflict and we maybe shove things under the rug. And that’s kind of like part of our culture. I found that I did that a lot with my relationship with the Lord. Like I would just I was reading my Bible, was walking with Jesus, but I wasn’t necessarily coming to Him with just like the raw, transparent emotion of like, hey, my friend’s baby shower is next weekend. And would you grant me the joy that like does not feel like it exists in my heart today? Like, you know my heart, I want to show up for her well, but you also know my, the despair of this season of my life. So would you, would you grant that to me as I walk into that shower and would you be with me? And I can only do this by your strength, like that recognition of our weaknesses. So that’s a huge part of it as well as we experience envy. And then as we come into opportunities where it kind of bumps up against our longing, like let’s say we go to the baby shower and we start getting asked questions about when we’re having kids, right? That’s just a natural, easy example. We can kind of pre-decide how we’ll answer that because many times we get hit with a question and we’re caught off guard and someone’s just generally curious about our life, but somehow it kind of strikes a chord with us. And then we become offended, you know, all of a sudden, and we kind of can over explain or over justify our season of life. And then it ruins our whole day, right? We’ve all had moments where that’s happened. Whereas if we could just stand back and think like, okay, I have this shower next weekend. I’m probably going to be asked that. I’m in my thirties. All my friends are having babies. So it’s a natural question. How can I acknowledge like, you know, thank you so much for asking. We’re just really trusting in God’s timing for that part of our lives. But I’d love to tell you about something he’s doing over here. And I’m just a huge fan of a redirect when we are asked a question that has to do with our longing and know that that, if you need somebody to give you a permission slip to do that, let me be the girl. But there’s a way that we can gracefully walk through that in a way that doesn’t cause undue and unnecessary stress to us and also just doesn’t over justify or over explain our season.
Rachael Adams (14:49.292)
Yeah, I think it’s such a good reminder to know and believe that God is not a stingy God. He is a God of abundance and He wants to do immeasurably more than you can ever ask or imagine. That’s the kind of God that we serve. He is not holding out on us. And so I think just to be mindful of that too, as we are waiting in these seasons of life. And so we’re going to actually take another brief break to hear from today’s sponsor. And when we return, we’ll talk more about how God uses the seasons of waiting to shape our faith.
Welcome back. talking with Rebecca George, the author of You’re Not Too Late. Rebecca, in your book, you offer real life practices to help readers deal with these toxic thought patterns and step into life giving habits. Can you walk us through one or two of those that might help us to change these patterns?
Rebecca George (15:41.452)
Yeah, yeah, totally. The first one, I’ll give you something that helped me with like some self-awareness of when I’m struggling with this. And I think what’s helpful about it is sometimes we forget that most of the longings of our hearts are God-given, right? Like the desire to have kids, the desire to be married, to reconcile a relationship, to have this career and grow with excellence, like all of those things as we do them to the glory of God honor Him and the desires from Him. So I think foundationally we have to remember that that’s true, right? So if you’re struggling today, stepping back and going, okay, that desire is not bad, but what am I doing with it? And so there’s a cycle that I often will kind of walk myself through that’s been helpful. And the first step that often happens when we’re struggling with longing is we look, right? We look to the right or to the left and we notice that God is maybe doing something in a friend’s life that feels a lot like what we would hope that he would do for us. So we look. Looking is not sin. Noticing that God is at work in our friend’s life, that is not sin. Second piece of the cycle is longing. Longing is not sin. It is not wrong for us to desire good God-given things in this life. And so we look, we experience longing, and then what trips us up many times is the third piece, and it’s this idea of lingering because what happens is we look around, we see how God’s at work in somebody else’s life, we start to experience envy and we stay there and we linger and we ruminate and we struggle to understand how God is maybe gonna write our story or how he will provide. And it’s most often in this place that the good thing becomes an idol. I define that in the book as anything in action, in thought and belief that would elevate something to a place of prominence meant for God alone. And that can look a lot of different ways, but usually that’s what’s happening when we’re lingering in our hearts over that particular thing. And so the practical advice I would give there is something I talk about in the book called the search me God prayer. And there’s this passage in Psalm 139 that I kept coming back to as I was writing this book. It’s verses 23 and 24, which may be a familiar passage for some of us.
Rebecca George (18:08.532)
But the psalm that says search my heart. god, try me and know my anxious thoughts If there be a grievous way in me lead me in the way everlasting And I will often just use that as kind of a guide to my prayers where I’ll just go to the lord and say god Examine my heart search my heart. Would you show me? The places where I’m having anxiety about this where I’m struggling to trust you where I’ve ran ahead of you in the situation And would you point me backk to truth? you reveal and tease out what I’m believing about this that isn’t what your truth and your word would say? And sometimes we have to walk through that many, many, many times as we’re navigating longing. But I think recognizing when it’s become an idol and then being willing to allow the Lord to examine our hearts and confront that is a huge and the first and best place I could send you in navigating through this.
Rachael Adams (19:09.314)
Yeah, I think it’s really important that we don’t just dismiss the longings. hearing you say, it’s okay to look, it’s okay to long. God has, he has set desire. He’s given us his desires. That’s actually a good, healthy thing. You don’t need to be ashamed or have guilt over, over those feelings, right?
Rebecca George (19:28.31)
Yeah, yeah, it’s so important. And I think so many times I have, if I’m honest, Rachel, like I, you know, I spent a lot of years just back to the singleness example. I spent a lot of my twenties single and it was the main desire of my heart was to share my life with someone and to do ministry alongside my future spouse. And, you know, I, I think I just didn’t know how to hold both the fact that it was a good desire and yet God hadn’t given it to me yet. Like there’s a tension there that I don’t know that we have to like figure out. It’s just a tension to be managed, right? And that I would say that to be true of most of the longings that we have here on earth in a broken world. And ultimately all of those longings we experience here in the midst of brokenness are imperfect glimpses at what our hearts ultimately are longing for, which is the future redemption and restoration of all things, right? Like in the book, I say we are kind of living between two Edens. Things are not as they were in the garden created in total perfection and communion with God as He designed it to be. That was severed because of sin. Jesus came and made a way to reconcile our relationship to God. And so now we, as followers of Christ, live in the meanwhile of we’re in brokenness now and yet one day he will come back and restore all things. And so our hearts ultimately are longing for that. But we fill our hearts with all sorts of other things, the side of heaven. A lot of them are good things, but we just have to see them rightly.
Rachael Adams (21:18.136)
I’m just thinking of the woman that’s like, okay, I’m in the season of waiting right now. nothing feels like it’s happening. I felt like I’ve missed the boat. Like, what do you do when you really feel like nothing is happening? Like there’s no movement at all. How do you anchor yourself in God’s word and his promises?
Rebecca George (21:36.738)
Yeah, it’s so hard. mean, I think if you are there today, the biggest advice I would give is, you know, we know that God is in control. We know that He is faithful. Like at face value, we know that’s true in Scripture. We know that that’s true of us as we know that’s true of Him. And so when our circumstances feel like they are contradictory to that spiritual biblical truth. Something has gone awry in our hearts, right? Because what I think happens to many of us, myself included, is I can have all the head knowledge about who God is, and yet when I don’t get the thing I want, if I have hinged His goodness and His faithfulness to me getting the thing I want, that puts us in a really dangerous place because the opposite also has to be true. Well, if I’m not getting the thing that I want, does that mean that God is not faithful, that He is not in control, which we know that is not true, right? And so does God give us things that bless us, that we can bring Him honor and glory through, that give us joy, this side of heaven? Of course, of course. But His faithfulness and His goodness don’t hinge on us getting that thing.
Right? So I think remembering that is really, really, really foundational. And then second to that, I would say is just live your life. Like be about whatever God is doing in this season of your life and be faithful there. A lot of times that is where our like next step will, come in that longing. Like I had no clue many of the years in my twenties that I actually knew my husband. I actually knew my husband and I was serving alongside him somewhat distantly in local church ministry. But like we knew each other, thought the world of each other, didn’t date at all in that season of life. But I had no clue that God was orchestrating something in the midst of just the everyday mundane season of life that I found myself in. And it’s likely that he’s doing the same in your life too, you know? And so I think being about wherever God has planted your feet in the midst of the waiting, even though that probably feels like the tough love big sister advice, it really is the best place for our hearts and our feet and our hands to be is wherever God has you today. And he is so faithful and so good and so kind to work out your next step.
Rachael Adams (24:22.126)
Yeah, he has you where you are with the people you’re around, like doing what you’re doing for a reason. So we need to be intentional about that too. It makes me think like, have you experienced fruit in a meanwhile season? Where have you seen yourself grow or like God provided in a meanwhile?
Rebecca George (24:39.448)
I love that. I think our Mississippi years are a good example of that. So when I married Dustin, I moved over 500 miles away from my family and friends and the career and church family that I’d built over the last decade of my life in Knoxville, which was gut wrenching, if I’m honest. Like I got the thing I wanted and also it was, along with it came some really great challenges. And once I got there, it was actually a really hard season of life to start a marriage. We got married right before COVID and he was leading his first church as, you know, lead pastor. And we were trying to figure all that out together as a newly married couple, with then the longing to move back to East Tennessee. And God kept us there for three and half years in the, in the middle of that. And I look back now and that was really the season that God stripped a lot away from me, like the physical presence of family and friends and what brought me comfort and familiarity, all of that was gone. But in its place, I had time and capacity that I’d never had before. That’s when I started my podcast. That’s when I wrote my first book that I then launched in East Tennessee after we moved back. And so, yeah, I mean, I think those things are always going to be easier to see in hindsight than they are in the moment. But I think anytime we can step back and recognize like, this, this hard thing about this season, God is actually using for his glory or he’s using to grant me the time or the resources or the connection to take the next step in whatever he has for me. There’s likely some version of that in everyone’s life who’s listening today. And I think that is a really sweet thing to reflect on.
Rachael Adams (26:35.96)
Sometimes I think that the waiting and the meanwhile is really God’s protection. think sometimes we think he’s like withholding something from us because that’s like, I don’t know why I would even think that, that, you know, he’s holding out on us. But really I have found as I reflect, cause hindsight is so much easier to do that, to say, no, what happened in his way and in his time was better than if it would have happened in my way and in my time. Have you found that as well?
Rebecca George (26:41.494)
Yes! Totally. Oh my goodness. Every time. I mean, I couldn’t have written that bench story that I told you at the beginning of that episode. I couldn’t have dreamed that that would be the love story that God had for Dustin and I. you know, didn’t, there were days I didn’t know if I would ever get to write a book or how the means of that would come or how God would pave each of those steps. And yeah, I think that’s such, just such an important piece as we consider our longing in the future is just looking back on his past faithfulness and remembering like that same God who did that years ago and the same God who set the planets into motion and created everything that we know and see and knows the number of hairs on your head is the same God who your life is under his careful control.
Rachael Adams (28:02.782)
I’m thinking about the enemy and how he would love to convince us that it’s too late, that we should quit, that we should just be complacent. We should dismiss all of our longings. Like that’s the voice of somebody that wants you to fail and just believe like there’s nothing left for you to do. You’ve already missed the boat. I’m so sorry. Like the rest of your life is pointless. You know, that’s the voice of the enemy, but God’s saying, no, daughter, don’t give up. Take heart. Just wait on me. Like something good is coming. I don’t know. Does that evoke any thought in you?
Rebecca George (28:34.454)
Yeah. Yeah. totally. What came to my mind was it makes it really easy on the enemy, doesn’t it? To think like he doesn’t have to stop the work of God and however, you know, if it’s already in motion and we’re taking that next step of obedience towards, you know, a career change or whatever, if he can just cause us to believe that we’re not good enough, that God’s not going to provide and that it’s too late. Well, he’s already won, you know? So I think if we step back and really consider is the way I’m thinking about this or what I’m believing about the situation, does that sound like what I find in God’s word? Does that sound like the character of who God is? And if the answer is no, we have to confront that because that is such an important piece. I’m so glad you brought that up.
Rachael Adams (29:28.056)
So this season I’ve been asking, there a biblical concept of love that you think applies to this topic? So I’m anxious to hear your answer.
Rebecca George (29:36.502)
Yeah, the thing that was on my mind about this was just this characteristic of God that blows me away. And it’s this idea that he’s unchanging. His love toward us is unchanging. His ways are unchanging. And what wrecks me about that is everything else we know to be true kind of hinges on that truth, right? If he is faithful, if he’s sovereign in control, merciful, gracious, kind towards us, all of those things kind of hinge on the fact that he can’t, he can’t and doesn’t change. And that just gives me so much hope in the middle of my waiting.
Rachael Adams (30:18.168)
Yeah, it reminds me that he’s never late. He’s right on time. And how many times do we read in the Bible, I’m thinking of Lazarus, when everybody thought that there was no more hope, that Lazarus was dead. But there was a reason that Jesus delayed his coming, and it was so that he would receive the glory. And then same thing with, I’m thinking we just celebrated Easter and Jesus died and was crucified. And then three days later, he was risen and I think there’s so much of our lives that fill that way. Maybe we’re in the tomb right now. That’s how we’re feeling and that God’s not going to show up and that he’s too late. Does that make sense?
Rebecca George (30:58.936)
Totally, Yeah, and isn’t that interesting that he chooses to work in that way many times when he could have healed Lazarus. He could have shown up in that way. could have, many times in his earthly ministry, could have just snapped his fingers and healed someone. And yet he chose to work in a way that would bring the Father the most glory. And the same is true in our lives. And that’s where like our feelings can’t override biblical truth in knowing that that is true of his character and his nature. And that is unchanging, regardless of how it feels this side of eternity.
Rachael Adams (31:48.728)
That makes me all teary. You you’re not too late. I want everybody to hear that. You’re not too late, but God’s not too late either. He is right on time. in His perfect time, His perfect plan will prevail. And so I’m so thankful for that. So tell us something that you are loving right now.
Rebecca George (32:04.92)
Oh, this is an easy one. It is spring in East Tennessee, which is so beautiful. And we’re so, again, grateful to live here and get to enjoy it again. And I’m loving spring at Dollywood is what I’m so much. We do. I know. Yeah, somebody, somebody figure that out for us. That would be awesome.
Rachael Adams (32:16.782)
We need to get you an affiliate link for Dollywood. Start a commission plan or something. I need to know, do you and Dustin, do you all go to your park bench? Do you frequent that every year?
Rebecca George (32:32.044)
We do. We actually need to go back. We’ve been many times since the day we got engaged. We’ve actually talked about doing a photo shoot up there to like just commemorate that. Like the next time we need headshots or something, it would be a fun place to go. But yeah, we love it.
Rachael Adams (32:48.046)
So sweet, so sweet. Well, I know I’m going to stay in contact with you, but I know listeners are going to want to too. If they don’t follow you, tell us how we can do that. Listen to your podcast, buy the book, all the things.
Rebecca George (32:59.736)
Totally. Yeah. I’m the most active over on Instagram. My handle is Rebecca George author, and you can listen to the radical radiance podcast wherever you like to download podcasts. And if you enjoyed today’s conversation, we’re having a whole series where we’re walking through the book chapter by chapter. So if there’s a topic related to longing that really resonated with you, there’s a whole conversation there waiting for you. And you can grab the book. You’re not too late trusting God’s timing and a hurry up world wherever you like to buy books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Christian book, all the places.
Rachael Adams (33:32.462)
Yeah, you know, we didn’t talk about that and I’m adding a new question. Social media, it makes it look like everybody is getting their dreams and their longings fulfilled like instantaneously when really there’s so many behind the scenes that we’re just not seeing in the years that they worked and the years that they waited. And so I think it’s just another one of those like, we’re just being fooled. You know, it’s, not happening as easily or as great as everybody is showing that it is. Right.
Rebecca George (34:03.23)
No, no, you’re so right there. I think that’s so important. And just the pace of our culture and technology, those two things paired together have trained our hearts, I believe, to not have a whole lot of resilience to wait in the things that aren’t really significant in life. And so it is no surprise to me that we’re then struggling so much more to trust in God and the things that do matter in eternity, the big life decisions or life transitions that feel so weighty and significant. We’ve not built that muscle in our culture and so it becomes more more challenging for us for sure.
Rachael Adams (34:44.152)
Yeah, what are you longing for now?
Rebecca George (34:48.165)
I think vocationally, you know, we’re both kind of in a like, what’s next with my writing career and allowing God to lead in that part of my vocational longing for sure. Dustin and I desire to become parents one day. And so that’s a huge, in a relational way, piece of that. And God is so faithful and has provided community that we desired in those kind of lonelier years when we were in Mississippi. And so it’s such a, I think both and of recognizing like, God, we’re just so grateful for how you’ve provided and longing leads to more longing. And so there’s always going to be that tension. I think that we’re managing of our heart’s desires and not missing the hand of God. Yeah.
Rachael Adams (35:46.154)
Yeah. Yeah. And I think that normalizes the tension that we’re probably all feeling today. And two, I just, I just, I’m looking at you like you’re just the best cheerleader, like just, just screaming from every, you angle, like you’re not too late friend, like stay the course, persevere, be faithful, be obedient and just trust in the Lord. That that’s such an important message that I know I needed to hear and I know listeners did too. Yeah. Well, would you, would you pray for us as we close?
Rebecca George (36:09.6)
Yeah, amen. So grateful. I would love to. God, we just come before you and I know and recognize that every person listening to this conversation is navigating some form of waiting or longing that they’re trusting you in. And we just lay every one of those examples before you and just surrender them to you. And however you are working things together in a way that brings you the most honor and glory and us the most good. we trust in whatever that outcome is, and you’re such a kind, good, gracious, faithful father, and that is true even here in the middle of our longing, in the middle of us feeling too late, and we just hand you back all of those situations and trust that you’re working all things together. And so we just thank you for this time, this conversation, and we ask these things in Jesus’ name, amen.
Rachael Adams (37:06.676)
Amen. Well, thanks Rebecca. It’s always a joy to get to talk with you.
Rebecca George (37:10.466)
Thanks, friend.
Rachael Adams (37:12.248)
Thank you so much for listening to the Love Offering Podcast. I hope today’s conversation encouraged and inspired you to love God, love others, and even love yourself a little more. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and leave a review. It helps others find the show and spreads the message of love even further. To connect with me, visit me on my website at rachelkaidams.com. While you’re there, be sure to download the Love Offering Calendar, a free resource filled with simple daily ways to love those around you.
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