Healer & Hope Giver: A Christian Podcast on Healing, Faith & Identity

What do you do when you genuinely want to follow God... but He hasn't shown you the whole plan?

Sometimes we want discernment to give us certainty: the correct decision, the expected outcome, and preferably a color-coded binder explaining exactly what comes next. 😂

Instead, Psalm 119 describes God's Word as a lamp for our feet and a light on our path.

A lamp gives us enough light to walk. It doesn't necessarily illuminate the next five miles.

In this devotional, Kim explores the difference between wisdom and certainty, why changing direction doesn't automatically mean you heard God wrong, and how to take the next faithful step when you can't see the entire path.

Extended Show Notes

If God would simply provide the five-year plan—with tabs, timelines, expected outcomes, and a clearly labeled section explaining what we're responsible for—discernment would be much easier. 😂

But maybe there's a reason the biblical picture is a lamp, not a binder.

Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”

A lamp gives light for the part of the path you're actually walking. It doesn't always tell you what you'll be carrying five years from now, whether today's assignment will last forever, or exactly how the story will end.

That doesn't mean God is playing games or intentionally keeping us confused. The Christian life is relational by nature. We're invited to walk with God—not receive His complete project plan and execute it independently.

In this devotional, Kim explores what discernment can look like when certainty isn't available: asking God for wisdom, paying attention to what is actually in front of us, receiving help, remaining teachable, waiting when we genuinely don't have enough information, and being willing to adjust as more of the path becomes visible.

Sometimes faithfulness means continuing.

Sometimes it means releasing.

Sometimes it means asking for help.

Sometimes it means admitting, “I don't know yet.”

You don't have to see the entire road to faithfully walk the part that's illuminated.

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How do you know what is actually yours to carry when God doesn't hand you the color-coded binder?

Some things really are ours for a season. Others come from expectations we've placed on ourselves, our ability to help, or the belief that if someone else is carrying something, we must not be doing enough. And sometimes the hardest thing to discern is whether something has completed its season—or whether we're simply discouraged because we can't see enough evidence yet that continuing makes sense.

In this episode, Kim explores the difference between responsibility and control, capability and assignment, mission and method, and perseverance and completion. Through children's ministry, marriage, friendship, grief, family responsibilities, and the still-unfolding story of Healer & Hope Giver, she asks a question without pretending there's an easy formula for answering it: What is mine to carry now?

Extended Notes

In This Episode

Kim would really like an annual—or preferably quarterly—meeting with Jesus over lattes, complete with a color-coded binder explaining exactly what she's supposed to focus on next. There is only one problem: Jesus absolutely cannot include future tabs, because if He says, “Don't look at the blue tab,” she's looking. 😂

Underneath the joke is a real question about discernment. If visible results aren't always the answer key, how do we know where to pour our finite time, attention, energy, and capacity?

Kim looks at children's ministry as an assignment that genuinely belonged to one season without needing to last forever; the invisible expectations she carries about being a wife and mother; and the way John's help can sometimes feel like evidence that she hasn't done enough. A brand-new refrigerator and some differently loaded dishes reveal the difference between responsibility and control—and why partnership doesn't require one person to carry everything.

The conversation gets more difficult through the reservoir-tank picture of limited capacity and Kim's regret over not being fully present for Debi's 50th birthday while another friendship consumed too much of her attention. Sometimes we don't recognize what carrying one thing is costing until we see what received less of us because our hands were full.

Kim also explores the responsibilities that genuinely do become ours because of relationship, circumstance, love, and ability—from writing family obituaries to creating funeral slideshows from decades of photographs—and why being capable of carrying something still doesn't automatically make every version of it our responsibility.

Finally, the conversation returns to Healer & Hope Giver. Kim believes the mission itself is enduring; what she doesn't know is which methods, formats, and levers will serve that mission in every future season. As she approaches the end of the first year with less traction than she'd hoped for but more personal formation than she expected, she's learning to look at both what the work is producing around her and what it is producing within her.

There still isn't a binder.

Maybe discernment isn't about eliminating uncertainty. Maybe it's about staying close enough to God to keep asking:

What is mine to carry now?

Key Themes

• Discernment when God doesn't reveal the whole plan 
• Seasonal assignments and knowing when something is complete 
• The difference between completion and failure 
• Expectations that masquerade as responsibilities 
• Receiving help without interpreting it as inadequacy 
• Responsibility versus control 
• Stewarding limited emotional and mental capacity 
• Recognizing what one yes may be costing somewhere else 
• Capability versus assignment 
• Mission versus method or expression 
• Paying attention to both visible fruit and personal formation 
• Remaining faithful without absolute certainty 

A Question to Carry

What is mine to carry now?

Not forever.

Not five years from now.

Not what's behind the blue tab. 😂

What belongs in your hands in this season—and what might you be carrying because of guilt, comparison, expectations, control, or simply because you've always been the one who does it?

Around the Table — Find the Conversation You're Carrying

You don't need to know which episode number you need next. Start with what you're carrying.

Healer & Hope Giver is being organized around the questions and experiences that bring people to these conversations—identity, grief, health, waiting, voice, becoming, faith, relationships, and more—so you can more easily find conversations that meet you where you actually are.

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Come Back Thursday

Monday leaves us with the question What is mine to carry now?

Thursday we'll stay with the faith underneath that question: How do we discern what God is asking us to carry when He hasn't given us the whole plan? How do we listen without demanding certainty? How do we know when faithfulness means continuing and when it means releasing?

Healer & Hope Giver long-form conversations release Mondays, with devotional episodes on Thursdays.

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What if you keep going... and the breakthrough doesn’t come?

We love the idea that Day 41 is coming—that if we can just hold on through Day 40, tomorrow might finally bring the answer, the growth, or the change we’ve been waiting for.

Sometimes it does.

But Scripture doesn’t promise that persistence will always produce the outcome we hoped for.

In this devotional, Kim explores a harder—and sturdier—kind of faithfulness: learning to distinguish between what is ours to do and what belongs to God.

Sometimes faithfulness means continuing.

Sometimes it means resting.

Sometimes it means releasing an assignment whose season is complete.

The common denominator isn’t persistence.

It’s responsiveness to God.

Extended Show Notes

What if Day 41 comes... and nothing changes?

The prayer is still unanswered. The thing you're building is still small. The relationship is still complicated. The results still aren't there.

Or what if the thing you've faithfully tended is something God eventually asks you to release?

Inspired by a shirt declaring “YOUR 41 IS COMING,” Kim wrestles with the hope behind that message—and the deeper truth faith needs when tomorrow doesn't bring the breakthrough we imagined.

Using Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 3—“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow”—this devotional explores the difference between our part and God’s part.

Our part may be to plant, water, pray, work, listen, apologize, wait, or obey.

Growth, timing, outcomes, redirection, and what happens on Day 41 belong to God.

That also means faithfulness isn't automatically the same as persistence. An assignment can be real and still have a season. Something can matter deeply and still become complete. Releasing it doesn't retroactively make the obedience meaningless.

If you're trying to decide whether you're tired or finished... whether to pick up the watering can again or finally open your hands... this conversation makes room for the uncertainty without offering a formula that Scripture doesn't promise.

You don't have to know what Day 41 holds to faithfully live Day 40.

God will already be there.

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What happens when you believe God created you with purpose...but your life doesn't look anything like the plan you thought would get you there?

Maybe the career changed. The business failed. The opportunity ended. Or maybe you're doing something now that feels deeply right—but you don't have the results to prove it's working. In this episode, Kim looks back at the winding path through teaching, nonprofit work, failed businesses, writing, Healer & Hope Giver, and a lifelong dream of publishing to ask whether purpose is really one thing we're supposed to find—or something God can express through many assignments, relationships, seasons, and opportunities.

This is a conversation about noticing what keeps coming with you, separating God-given gifts from the ways life may have tangled around them, and learning to take the next faithful step without demanding control over the outcome. Because maybe the question isn't simply, What is my purpose? Maybe it's: Who has God made me to be—and what does faithfulness look like with that person in this season? 

Extended Notes

In This Episode

Kim explores what happens when the plan you once thought defined your purpose changes completely.

She shares the teaching career she once expected to have, the event planning and nonprofit work that revealed skills she still uses today, and the collection of businesses that taught her at least one thing with absolute certainty: she is not a salesperson. 😂

Looking back, though, something else becomes visible. Certain abilities and concerns kept following her through completely different seasons—writing, teaching, organizing, seeing patterns, building systems, relationships, faith, connection, and helping people make sense of what they're experiencing.

The conversation becomes more complicated when Kim considers how life formation can become tangled around something good. Caring can become rescuing. Generosity can become overgiving. A desire for peace can become disappearing. Healing doesn't necessarily remove who God created us to be; sometimes it teaches us how to carry those parts of ourselves in healthier ways.

Episode 42 also brings the question into Kim's unfinished present. Healer & Hope Giver feels different from the projects she's stopped before, but it is still small and financially unproven. Traditional publishing has been a dream since childhood, but taking that step doesn't guarantee a publisher will say yes.

That distinction becomes central to the episode:

Sometimes we define the assignment by the outcome.

Kim can't faithfully make a publisher say yes—but she can faithfully submit the proposal. She can't make Healer & Hope Giver grow—but she can continue doing the work she believes is hers while paying attention to the information she's receiving.

Results matter. They just aren't always an answer key.

Key Themes

•  Purpose versus assignment 
•  When a changed plan doesn't mean everything before it was wrong 
•  Recognizing the skills, concerns, and gifts that keep following you 
•  How life formation can develop—or distort—the way you carry something good 
•  Caring for someone without becoming responsible for carrying or saving them 
•  Why visible success isn't always proof of calling 
•  Why failure doesn't automatically mean you missed God 
•  Taking responsibility for the faithful step without trying to control the outcome 
•  Allowing assignments and expressions to change across different seasons 
•  Asking what is actually yours to do now 

A Question to Carry With You

Who has God made you to be—and what does faithfulness look like with that person in this season?

You might also ask:

What keeps showing up across the different seasons of your life?

What has life taught you to hide?

What has healing allowed you to carry differently?

What is no longer yours?

What is still here?

What is the next faithful step you can actually take—not the outcome, not the entire plan, just the step? 

Around the Table — Start Here

If you've been listening for a while and you've started wondering where you fit in all the conversations we're having, Start Here was built to help you find the part of Healer & Hope Giver that meets the question you're carrying.

You don't have to begin with Episode 1. You don't have to consume everything. Start with where you are now and find the conversations that meet you there.

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Come Back Thursday

Monday's conversation leaves one important tension unresolved:

How do you know when faithfulness means continuing—and when faithfulness means releasing something whose season is over?

We'll keep sitting with faithfulness, persistence, surrender, and what it means to trust God when we cannot control what comes next in Thursday's devotional.

Healer & Hope Giver publishes long-form conversations on Mondays and devotionals on Thursdays.

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What if trusting God in an unfinished story doesn't mean finally understanding what He's doing?

Throughout this arc, we've been asking one question: Can God be trusted while the story is unfinished?

In this integration episode, Kim looks back across conversations about unanswered prayer, waiting, presence, becoming, relationships, and the stories we can only understand in hindsight—and realizes the answer may not be found in knowing how the story ends.

Maybe trust isn't certainty about the outcome.

Maybe it's knowing where to take the uncertainty.

This is a conversation about receiving the life that's here while still longing for something to change, remembering God's faithfulness without forcing painful experiences into tidy explanations, recognizing the quiet ways we're becoming while we wait, and staying in relationship with God when we still don't know.

Because the story can remain unfinished while something very real changes in us.

“I don't know how this story ends. I know where I want to live while it's being written.”

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What happens when you love God—but the spiritual rhythms you once had have slipped away?

Maybe life got busy. Maybe grief, illness, caregiving, or disappointment changed your capacity. Maybe you got distracted. And now opening your Bible feels less like returning to God and more like confronting an overdue assignment.

In this devotional, Kim explores the difference between maintaining a spiritual streak and remaining in relationship with Jesus. Through John 6, John 15, the story behind The Red Notebook Journey, and her own experience of losing rhythms she once treasured, she asks a gentler question:

What if you don’t need to catch up? What if you need to turn toward Him again?

Extended Show Notes

There are seasons when spending time with God comes easily—and seasons when the rhythm we once had seems to disappear.

For Kim, one of her closest seasons with God began in 2009 with a red composition notebook, a New Testament reading challenge, and a daily rhythm of Scripture, noticing, and prayer.

Seventeen years later, that notebook has become The Red Notebook Journey. But as Kim waits for the proof copy to arrive, she's realized something unexpected:

She needs the journey too.

After surgeries, recovery, grief, loss, health challenges, distraction, and a life that looks very different from 2009, returning to God cannot simply mean recreating an old routine.

So what does remaining with Jesus actually look like?

In John 6, when other followers leave after a difficult teaching, Peter doesn't tell Jesus that he understands everything. He simply says:

“Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

Peter doesn't have an explanation.

He has a Person.

And in John 15, Jesus doesn't tell His disciples to maintain an impressive spiritual streak. He tells them to remain in Him.

In this devotional, we'll talk about:

• why spiritual practices should support relationship rather than become the relationship 
• what happens when maintaining the streak becomes the goal 
• why changed capacity may require changed rhythms 
• how grief, illness, caregiving, stress, and ordinary distraction affect the room we make for God 
• why missing a day doesn't erase all the days that came before it 
• how to return without turning “returning” into another rule 
• what Peter's failures teach us about remaining with Jesus 
• why Scripture can meet us differently in different seasons of our lives 
• and how to stay in the conversation with God even when we're angry, disappointed, confused, or still waiting for an answer 

You don't have to repair six months today.

You don't have to finish every chapter you missed.

You don't have to prove you're serious this time.

Do the next thing.

Because a streak is fragile.

A relationship can survive interruption.

And when you don't know what God is doing next, you can still know where you want to turn.

This week's devotional also introduces you to another part of the Healer & Hope Giver world—the Hope Map, where we're watching this community spread across the United States and around the world.

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What if the unfinished thing in your life doesn’t have to become smaller before you’re allowed to receive everything happening beside it?

In 2009, Kim was waiting to become a mother. Infertility, fertility treatments, adoption paperwork, disappointment, hope, grief, and prayer took up enormous space in her life. Seventeen years later, she returned to more than 500 blog posts she wrote during that year—and discovered something she had almost forgotten:

Her life wasn’t waiting. It was happening all around the thing she was waiting for.

In this episode, Kim explores what it means to deeply long for what isn’t here yet while still receiving the life that is. Through stories from 2009, the Red Notebook that recorded her faith in real time, and the unfinished questions she is carrying today, she looks at presence without passivity, gratitude without denying pain, and what it means to trust God without requiring Him to reveal how the story ends.

Because the unfinished thing can be enormous without being everything.

And this isn’t the waiting room before your real life begins.

In This Episode

Kim talks about:

•  What she discovered when she revisited 503 blog posts from 2009 
•  Why a season remembered primarily for infertility contained an entire ordinary life alongside the waiting 
•  How joy, grief, gratitude, and longing can exist at the same time 
•  Why receiving the life you have doesn’t mean resigning yourself to everything in it 
•  The difference between trusting God and simply wanting more information 
•  What her original Red Notebook revealed about formation before she knew how the story would unfold 
•  Why presence is something we return to—not something we permanently achieve 
•  The unfinished questions she is still carrying in 2026 
•  Why becoming may be one of the gifts of being here 

A Few Things to Remember

The unfinished thing can be enormous without being everything.

Pain and gratitude can occupy the same body.

Presence is not the pressure to appreciate everything.

You can deeply long for what isn’t here yet and still receive the life that is.

Knowing what’s coming isn’t what makes a life meaningful. Living it does.

The Red Notebook Journey

The original red notebook Kim began in 2009 became a record of Scripture, prayer, questions, and a life unfolding before she knew what came next.

Seventeen years later, that practice has grown into The Red Notebook Journey — A Guided Walk Through Prayer & Scripture, designed to give you somewhere to read, notice, reflect, pray, live, and return.

The first physical proof is on its way, with release planned for this fall.

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Every Wednesday, Kim sends the Weekly Coffee Date—a more personal place to share stories, thoughts, behind-the-scenes pieces of HHG, and conversations that don’t necessarily belong in a podcast episode.

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We were made to need people. But what happens when we ask another human being to become everything we need?

In this devotional, we explore the tension between biblical interdependence and dependence that asks too much of another person. Through Galatians 6, the body of Christ, Jesus in Gethsemane, and the image of a cup and a well, we're asking what it looks like to carry one another without trying to become one another's source.

God is the Source. People are gifts.

And knowing the difference can make us freer to love both.

Extended Show Notes

Needing people isn't a failure of faith.

Scripture tells us to carry one another's burdens, encourage one another, pray for one another, mourn together, rejoice together, and live as members of one body.

But no human relationship was designed to carry the weight of becoming everything we need.

In When People Become Too Much, we're exploring what healthy, biblical interdependence can look like.

Galatians 6 tells us both to carry one another's burdens and that each person must carry their own load. Those two instructions give us a picture of relationship where we help carry what has become too heavy without taking responsibility for another person's entire life.

We'll also talk about what happens when:

• we become afraid to need anyone 
• another person's approval or availability begins determining whether we're okay 
• we need someone else to need us in order to feel valuable 
• helping quietly becomes rescuing or controlling 
• someone we love cannot give us what we need 
• relationships change and we have to grieve the gift without believing the Source has disappeared 

Jesus Himself invited His friends close in Gethsemane. Their inability to stay awake didn't make His desire for companionship wrong.

The need wasn't wrong. The people were limited.

And maybe that's something many of us need permission to recognize.

People can carry cups of love, comfort, encouragement, prayer, wisdom, laughter, truth, and practical help to us.

But they aren't the Well.

God is the Source. People are gifts.

We don't have to diminish the gift to honor the Source—and we don't have to turn the gift into God in order to let it matter deeply.

This devotional continues the conversation from Episode 40 about the people God allows to participate meaningfully in our formation.

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Scriptures

Galatians 6:2–5
 Matthew 26:36–46
 1 Corinthians 12
 John 4

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Who has helped shape the person you’re becoming—and whose becoming have you been invited to be part of?

Last week, we looked backward and asked who we were becoming while we were busy living. But when Kim looked at that same life again, she noticed something she couldn't unsee:

There were people everywhere.

The husband who has known almost every version of her adult life. The friend who walked beside her son toward his grandfather's casket. The people who showed up at a funeral for a man they'd never met simply because they loved the daughter who lost him. The relationships that survived disappointment because both people were willing to repair. And an 84-year-old woman named Janis who can apparently see Future Kim quite clearly—and would appreciate it if she could hurry up and get there. 😂

In Episode 40, We Don't Become Who We Are Alone, we're talking about the people woven through our becoming.

What does it look like when a healthy relationship gives us room to change instead of requiring us to stay the person we've always been? How do we carry one another when we can't fix the thing that hurts? Can we be disappointed in someone without deciding we're done with them? And what happens when someone else sees something in us before we're ready to see it ourselves?

This isn't a conversation about staying in every relationship at any cost. Some relationships require boundaries, distance, or an ending. Repair requires safety, accountability, and participation from both people.

It's also not about needing other people because we're too weak to carry our own lives.

Sometimes we're strong.

Sometimes the person beside us is strong too.

And still, one of the gifts of relationship is being able to look at someone we love and say:

“I've got this part.”

Because becoming isn't something we do entirely by ourselves.

We become while loving people, losing people, forgiving people, learning from people, setting boundaries, telling the truth, repairing what can be repaired, carrying what we can, and allowing someone else to carry something too.

And eventually, another realization emerges:

The people around us aren't just supporting characters in our stories.

We're in theirs too.

Maybe someone helped you become who you are.

Maybe someone believed in a version of you that you couldn't see yet.

Maybe someone simply kept showing up while your story remained unfinished.

And maybe, without even realizing it, you've become that person for somebody else.

Go Deeper

If this episode has you noticing the people woven through your own story, the Episode 40 Companion Guide, We Don't Become Alone: A Relationship & Formation Map, gives you space to explore it.

You'll look beyond simply naming your closest relationships and notice the people who saw you, carried something with you, challenged you, modeled something for you, grew beside you, helped you repair—and the people whose becoming you've been invited to be part of.

Because when we look backward, we may discover that we weren't becoming alone at all.

We were becoming beside one another.

🎧 Listen to Episode 40 and find the Companion Guide at Healer & Hope Giver.

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What do you do when you can't see what God is doing?

Sometimes hindsight gives us an explanation. Sometimes it doesn't. But it can still give us evidence—evidence that God has met us before, sustained us before, and remained faithful through stories we couldn't understand while we were living them.

In this devotional, we explore Joshua 4, Psalm 77, and the biblical practice of remembering when the future remains uncertain.

You don't need the answer key for what God is doing next. You can remember the evidence of His faithfulness behind you.

Extended Show Notes

When life doesn't make sense, we often want the answer key.

Why did this happen? What is God doing? Where is this going? What am I supposed to learn?

But hindsight doesn't always give us an explanation.

Sometimes it gives us evidence.

In Joshua 4, after Israel crosses the Jordan River, God tells His people to gather stones and build a memorial so they will remember what He has done.

The stones don't predict what God will do at the next river.

They're reminders:

God met us here.

Psalm 77 gives us another picture of remembrance—this time while the psalmist is still distressed and asking difficult questions. He doesn't suddenly receive an explanation. Instead, he deliberately remembers God's works.

In Remember What You Know, we're exploring what it means to remember God's faithfulness without rewriting painful parts of our stories.

You don't have to call the fire good in order to trust that God is good.

You don't have to manufacture a lesson from every wound.

You don't have to force gratitude before its time.

And you don't need yesterday's evidence to guarantee tomorrow's outcome.

The stones aren't predictions.

They're reminders.

When fear tells you everything that could go wrong, you can let it speak without allowing fear to be the only witness. Bring the evidence too.

This devotional accompanies Episode 39 — The Person I Couldn't See Yet and continues the conversation about formation, hindsight, and trusting God inside stories we cannot fully interpret yet.

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Scriptures

Joshua 4
 Psalm 77 

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