Episode #53// Wholehearted: Finding God's Love in Every Season with Gretchen Saffles
*This blog post contains affiliate links for which I may receive a small commission at no cost to you.
You are in for such a treat today! My friend Gretchen and I have known each other for about fifteen years, and she is as dear as she seems on the internet, perhaps even more so. Gretchen has a deep love for God’s word and helping women connect it to their everyday lives. She is the founder of the global ministry Well Watered Women, the author of several books, and a mama to three. Our conversation covers spiritual growth, mentorship, and learning to love God’s word. Wherever you are today, this conversation will encourage your heart.
GUEST BIO
Gretchen Saffles is the founder of the global online women's ministry Well-Watered Women, the creator of the Give Me Jesus Bible study journal, and a passionate writer who longs to see women grasp the fullness of the gospel in everyday life.
Over the years, Gretchen has self-published several Bible studies, sold updated and revised versions of the Give Me Jesus journal, and created other guided journals and resources that walk women through various books of the Bible. She is the bestselling author of The Well-Watered Woman and The Well-Watered Life.
Gretchen lives in Atlanta with her husband, Greg, and their three children: Nolan, Haddon, and Emelyn. She loves going on adventures with her family, traveling to new places, daydreaming of wildflower fields, cooking tasty meals, baking chocolate chip cookies, painting, reading good books, and teaching women to know and love Jesus.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
It's not just about the work of my hands, it's about how it impacts people.
Jesus came to save our souls and to redeem us from a life of bondage and sin to a life of freedom and joy.
God takes the things that we learn in our minds and seeps it through into every single aspect of our being.
Are we allowing the words that we know in our mind to then trickle down and take root in our hearts so that it's just the natural byproduct of our life and our speech?
How did God wire you and how are you using those gifts to be a good steward and to bless others and to continue to further his kingdom plans?
So this wholehearted living, I mean, really it boils down to loving God and loving others.
I think that the best training ground is the behind the scenes work where you're not getting the praise.
This is real...there is nothing else that gives me hope.
There is nowhere else to run but to the Word.
There's nothing good apart from him.
The words of man, the words on Instagram, the words on the news, know, and self-help books, they don't have the life that God's Word has.
He's going to bring us out on the other side.
Allow the Holy Spirit to teach you as you're in God's life giving words.
We have to retrain our brains to desire what is good and what's lasting, and that's God's word.
How are your habits shaping you?