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The Dirty Little Secret about Your Calling ...

Overwhelmed to Overcomer

Release Date: 01/15/2026

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Two weeks into the new year, are you already feeling uncertain about your calling and purpose? In this raw and honest episode, Anna tackles what she calls "the dirty little secret" about walking out your calling—it's hard. Really hard.

Through powerful biblical examples and personal vulnerability, Anna explores how the very areas where we're called to serve and impact are often the most sanctified, stretched, and devastating. She reminds us that calling isn't just the mountaintop moments of celebration and recognition—it's the countless ordinary days, the waiting seasons, and the "Mount Moriah moments" of sacrifice and surrender.

If you're wondering whether you made up your calling, if it's too late, or if you've fallen too far short, this episode is for you. Anna offers hope and perspective for those walking through the mundane, the waiting, and the wondering if it's all still real.


Key Points

 

  1. Calling Requires Blood, Sweat, and Tears

  2. We Become Who We Need to Be Through "A Bajillion Tiny Little Deaths"

  3. The Cross Comes Before the Crown, and Tomorrow is a Monday Morning

  4. If Your Vision Can Be Completed in Your Lifetime, It's Too Small

  5. You Didn't Make It Up

  6. The Mundane is Where It's Worked Out

  7. God's Gaze is Long

  8. You're Stronger Than You Realize


Scriptures Mentioned

Genesis 22 - Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah

Genesis 18:19 - "I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised to him."

Hebrews 11 - The Hall of Faith

John 3:30 (referenced) - "He must increase, I must decrease" - John the Baptist's declaration


Books & Resources Mentioned

  1. "The Weight of Glory" by C.S. Lewis - https://a.co/d/gq8hwvS

  2. "Fear and Trembling" by Søren Kierkegaard - https://a.co/d/0yiQnTC


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MUSIC CREDITS

Theme music: Brave New World

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Artist: Fantoms

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Audio source: Jamendo

Artist: Aliaksei Yukhnevich

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