Ep.1 Navigating the Unknown with Faith

In this introductory episode, Amy LeSage shares her journey of faith and personal growth. As a single mother of four and a devoted Christian, Amy reflects on her decision to surrender her life to God, realizing that her own efforts had led her to a standstill. She reveals the challenges she faced in letting go of control and the unexpected difficulties that arose. Amy also discusses how she originally planned her podcast around furniture refinishing but was redirected by her faith journey. Despite the chaos and uncertainties in her life, Amy expresses the peace she has found through her relationship with God. She invites listeners to join her on this transformative journey of growth and understanding who Jesus is. Amy promises more insights and experiences in the upcoming episodes, emphasizing the importance of community and mutual support in spiritual growth.

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In this Episode:

00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:40 A Journey with the Lord

01:04 Personal Background and Struggles

02:04 Surrendering Control to God

03:45 The Podcast's Purpose and Challenges

05:18 Acceptance and Realizations

08:00 Faith and Trust in God's Plan

09:55 Conclusion and Future Outlook

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Transcript

Ep.1 Navigating the Unknown with Faith

amy: [00:00:00] All right, hey guys, welcome to our first episode. , I am just really, , full of different emotions right now to be completely honest with you and just so happy that you're here and you're spending your time here with me. , I really, really appreciate it. First, I want to, dive right in.

And if you haven't heard the trailer, that might be kind of a nice thing to go listen to before heading into this, because that'll kind of give you a good overview of a couple things, but a lot has changed since that trailer so, I'll be explaining that as well, but I don't know, not a lot, but time has shown.

Um, just odd things, man. When you're on a journey with the Lord it's a ride. If you're really wanting to learn and grow and let Him, , speak to you and you're watching and you're listening and you're taking the time, I'll tell you what, the world just starts to, like, open up. And it's not always pretty. It's not harmful, but it can be really hard. And [00:01:00] I think that's kind of where I want to take this today. 

First of all, my name's Amy LeSage. I am a single mom of four children and, uh, Christian and, um, just I have devoted myself. to let God lead me. in life, what were his plans for me, because what I was doing wasn't working and I was never really finding myself in a better situation no matter how hard I would try or how many things I would take on or, um, you know, none of that really got me anywhere.

And I think what had happened was in the midst of everything kind of just falling apart around me, I realized my control and all that effort got me here.

Whether I thought that was with the Lord or not, something was obviously missing because this can't be the life. That he planned for me. [00:02:00] So what's going on and where did I go wrong? 

It's been over a year, since having that conversation with him and saying, Lord, I give it all to you. I'm doing something wrong.

I realize that. I'm missing the mark. I'm working so hard and just on this hamster wheel and I need you. I'm, I'm, you know what? I let me follow you. You obviously, I believe wholeheartedly, had a plan when you made me and created me and put me here on this earth. Show me it. Please, like, I want to follow you.

I want to live the life you created for me. I don't believe this is it. And I know that this is the life that I've created for me. And I think that's the problem. So I could like put that together enough, but the amount of stuff that I didn't know would happen after that. It has been such a learning experience, a journey. I've been in lots of chaos still. Everything hasn't just resolved itself. 

Um, 

there's work to do when you kind of pledge your life to God. What I didn't realize up until sadly,, just recently was how hard it is for me to completely give up all control and blindly follow and trust the Lord. It's so much easier to say you'll do that. But The unique situation that I have in front of me as of today, and I'm only going to stay in today's moment for a short period of time, because we have to go backwards. We have to go start from the beginning of, how this all started and, and the whole journey. So I don't want to stay here because this isn't the beginning. This is the beginning of the next step that I've been procrastinating and fighting against and putting up barriers and things to not do. But in turn, nothing has happened. Nothing can move forward because I have not taken the step that I'm supposed to take, which is hitting record on this podcast and sharing the ins and outs of my life with you and my journey with the Lord.

Um, and a lot of it is where I went wrong. I think there were multiple reasons why I didn't press record, but I couldn't believe for a while that this was it.

I don't, I don't like telling my personal things. I didn't have any desire to speak to people about that, to share in that way. What I thought this would be about is some God stuff, sprinkled around furniture refinishing, which was the a job that I was doing. I was self-employed and I had learned how to refinish all sorts of things over the last, decade and a half. And I thought that was what I was supposed to share. The Acceptance and I'm gonna be honest, the disappointment that it wasn't I had to process that first and that was hard to process um because it was a big part of who I felt I was and what I felt I was capable of teaching others. and sharing with others comfortably that I knew enough about that topic and I love helping people and of course it made sense that it would be that.  My fight to keep that in this podcast took months and months and months of, coming up against walls because that wasn't the plan. What I have realized today…well, there's a lot, I've realized so much! But when I decided I would follow the Lord and His plan, I didn't realize that He was going to really test that.. Will I do anything to follow Him? Because that's the only way that it's going to work. And even though I felt I 

was astrong Christian, I now realize how hard that was for me. Granted, some of the timing and some of the things that I had to go through first were natural. They made sense. That progress, that, that process and, how that went had to happen first. But I then started adding my own agenda to it. I got really sick recently, well, this, this past year, and my voice changed and it's still changing as we're still trying to figure out what's going on. And I thought, well, I can't do it if my voice is bad because it's podcasting. So there goes that. And then I tried to figure out what was wrong.

And then that's my agenda, my agenda, my agenda. and that's, I think, one of the biggest takeaways of this entire journey is that our agendas feel safe, even though they get us nowhere. Or they get us up to a point and we're okay with that. There is something to say about having everything up in the air. So many unknowns right now in my life, my health,, things with my children, my financial situation, my job, my livelihood, every single thing that would point logically to the next step that would need to be taken is not this.

And I just had that battle in my head for so long that was paralyzing at times. Because it was like, no, you need to make money. You have a family. You have to do the thing that gives you income. So keep investing into the money thing. Well, that just took me away from the thing he was telling me to do.

So now here I am today with many unknowns. Yet again, in the same… I'm gonna tell you, I am pretty much this is so discouraging to say um in certain ways I am pretty much outside of how much I've grown with the Lord and like the Holy Spirit and I've grown so much in my faith and like and and Knowledge, right? I've grown in knowledge. But where I am physically and the things around me, I am in the same spot I was in over a year and a half ago. And then before that, the year prior to that, I was in a very similar space that I'm in right now. Just the unknowns of how's this going to work out? And it's crazy because that's been the test the whole time. 

Can you take a complete leap of faith in my name and trust that regardless of how uncomfortable it makes you feel or all the unknowns, you can have faith That I will provide because I am telling you to do this [00:09:00] and you don't have to know, you only have to trust that I will get you there. It's so hard

because I want at least something to fall back on and I don't have that and human nature will keep you in that space of not moving forward because of what's so uncomfortable and unknown, but that's not how God works. And I'm not sure what's coming next, but this is the true leap of faith that I think he's called me for, he's prepared me for, I am there, it is time. And so here I am with you to share this story of growth, complete, astonishing growth that I could have never done on my own. Um, that we're all capable of [00:10:00] having. 

And I am excited and completely terrified, um, just because I'm uncomfortable and this isn't my safe space, but it will be. And I know I'm not alone. I do ask you to, bear with me as my voice may be changing And I apologize for that I always love hearing like the voice, the familiar voice of the person on the other side of the podcast. And I, I've let that kind of steer me away from starting this, but I, but I can't anymore, the message is so clear and the Holy Spirit has put it on my heart very emphatically that now is my time, and this is not going to be perfec by any means. This is more about my mistakes than it is about what I got right. But I'm learning and I'm growing. And I'm going to say the craziest thing is that although I continue to find myself in these spaces, I have never [00:11:00] had such peace. Inside of the chaos, never…never. And there's only one reason for that. This is about first and foremost, havinga true understanding of who Jesus is and letting that in, letting that just seep in to my being. It's kind of crazy that God's plan is for us to learn together.

I just feel like that says a lot. I ask that you come beside me and I'll go first, but the growth that can happen to each of us individually throughout this process

is life changing. I think it's going to be life changing. I really do. I believe that. Um, this is a community of just lifting people up and

I'm excited for where it can go. [00:12:00] So more, much, more to come next time. Thank you guys so much for being here and I look forward to seeing you or talking to you, being in your ears. Have a great week. God bless. Bye.