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Calling an audible.

Calling an audible.

When God speaks, what if you actually listened?

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Jonathon M. Seidl
Jan 21, 2025
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I got in my car at 5:54pm on Monday and started driving. The prayers started quickly after that.

I was headed to speak to a group of all kinds of addicts. Alcohol, sex, people-pleasing, you name it. I had prepared a talk that combined my story of hitting rock bottom with an invitation for all those listening to respond to God’s call to bring beauty into the world through their brokenness. It was going to be really good. I think.

But I wouldn’t know. Because that’s not the speech I ended up giving 96 minutes later. Not even close.

Instead, the speech I gave was actually based on what I wrote earlier this week. It was about liminal spaces, about how God is inviting us to let him turn our “scared” into something “sacred.” (Read that post below, if you’d like.)

The scared and the sacred.

The scared and the sacred.

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Why did I change it? Why did I rewrite the whole thing during the 30-minute car ride to the event? Why did I call an audible? And how did it turn out? That, friend, is today’s post. And it’s based on something I sent out two Saturday’s ago that you might have missed that I need to hone in on.

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