Trading the Wonder Woman Cape: Trisha Nix on Rest, Community, and Trusting God's Timing

Send me a text and let me know your thoughts! Recorded live on a retreat on the Oregon coast, host Jan Johnson talks with new friend Trisha Nix about wilderness seasons — the ones we sometimes walk into ourselves.  Trisha shares the quiet, undramatic moment she gave her life to Jesus as a child because of a teacher who cared enough to bring her to church, the season she calls her own wilderness after an impulsive move to Costa Rica left her with nothing, and what she's learning now about community, rest, and letting go of the pressure to be everything to everyone.  Honest, warm, and full of practical wisdom for anyone waiting on God in an in-between season. Isaiah 43:19 (NIV) — "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."  Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) — "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."  Matthew 11:29-30 (NIV) — "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me... For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."    https://uppbeat.io/t/braden-deal /a-movement License code: JF75OPN6HGFTNGNG 00:00 — Welcome from the Oregon Coast Retreat  00:37 — This Retreat's Theme: The Wilderness  00:59 — "My Testimony Isn't a Dramatic Story"  01:22 — The Third-Grade Teacher Who Changed Everything  02:15 — Growing Up Without Faith at Home  03:07 — Saved at a Small Baptist Church in Louisiana  04:22 — A Real Relationship With God From the Start  04:57 — Writing Poems to God as a Creative Child  05:23 — "Any But God Moments?" — A Loaded Question  05:54 — The Decision to Move to Costa Rica  06:23 — Selling Everything and Leaving Bend, Oregon  07:39 — Coming Back With Nothing But a Suitcase  07:48 — Sitting in the Wilderness at Her Mom's House  08:26 — "I'm Doing a New Thing": How God Kept Speaking  09:05 — Redemption: A Car, a Home, and Meeting Her Husband  09:54 — The Desire Underneath the Desire 11:36 — Where God Has Her Now: Southern California  12:26 — Blended Family and Losing Herself in Caretaking  13:35 — Why Every Woman Needs a Circle  14:41 — "Nobody Has Your Voice"  15:53 — The Book That Spoke to Her: I'm Not Wonder Woman, But God Made Me Wonderful 16:51 — Striving vs. Rest: "His Yoke Is Easy"  17:09 — The I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory Illustration  18:53 — Waiting on God's Timing Instead of Rushing Ahead  20:22 — The Enemy's Lies in the Wilderness  20:54 — Trading the Cape, Boots, and Headband  22:01 — "Feelings Are Not Facts"  24:18 — Embracing the Wilderness Instead of Rushing Through It  24:49 — The Power of Journaling  25:08 — The Prayer Written One Month Before Meeting Her Husband  26:06 — Three Closing Words: Community, Slow Down, Ask Him to Use You Welcome to Just Talkin' About Jesus. I'm Jan Johnson, a seasoned believer who loves relationships and, you know, just talkin' about Jesus. Here you will find testimonies of those who God has changed through his grace. Stories of feeling unworthy because of being sex trafficked, or of radical redemption of a woman who grew up with abuse, neglect, abandonment and drugs. A story of an abortion survivor. This and more. Lean in now. Consider subscribing to this podcast, YouTube and Substack- all with the same name: Just Talkin' About Jesus! https://www.youtube.com/@JustTalkinAboutJesus https://jan-johnson.com/ https://justtalkingaboutjesus.com/ https://janjohnsonauthor.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@JustTalkinAboutJesus Thanks for listening! If you have a story to tell, check out the form on my website- justtalkingaboutjesus.com. I'd love to connect with you! No, really.... hit me up!