Does it ever feel like you got the enormous dream?
In June 2022, the nationwide conversation about abortion rose to the top again after the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Dobbs v. Jackson case and overturned Roe v. Wade after decades of legalized abortion in the U.S.
It was long before that, though, when today’s guest Angie Weszely began to understand how the politicized nature of the abortion discussion was doing more harm than good to everyone involved.
IF YOU’VE EVER WONDERED HOW TO BELIEVE GOD FOR SOMETHING YOU CANNOT SEE, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU
When Angie was first a Devoted Dreamers guest more than five years ago (back in season two, episode 31), she told her story about co-founding ProGrace and the vision of equipping Christians with a third kingdom way to think, talk, and engage about abortion that values the women and child equally.
I invited Angie to return not only because the abortion conversation is so timely (and the work of ProGrace is so vital) but also because she’s on a long-haul journey to a God-shaped dream and I suspect you might be feeling some of this too: Your dream feels enormous. It’s difficult to see the finish line. Even the thought of how to begin is intimidating.
In this episode, Angie and I are talking about:
The only way to hold an audacious dream that you may never see come to fruition
What it looks like to believe God FOR your dream, and
How to release the outcome and timing to the Lord.
I hope you see in Angie a perseverance and open-handedness in how deeply she is committed to the dream but also how loosely she must hold it. And I hope it brings you encouragement.
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Angie Weszely is the Co-Founder and CEO of ProGrace. ProGrace equips Christians with a third option for approaching the abortion debate through an adult education model that helps participants embrace a new way to think, talk, and engage. Their mission is to help Christians transform because the outcome of that transformation will be safe communities for people impacted by unintended pregnancy that can only be created by Christians who value the woman and child equally.
Before ProGrace, Angie Weszely spent ten years as President of Caris Pregnancy Counseling Resources in Chicago. This role was her first experience in the pro-life/pro-choice space, and her journey awakened the passion and transformative content behind ProGrace. Angie is an accomplished speaker, teacher, and coach with a varied career background in ministry and corporate training.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Angie’s 2017 Devoted Dreamers episode: Ep 31: Small Steps on the Journey to Your Big Dream
eBook: ProGrace: Creating A Third Option For Approaching The Abortion Debate
ProGrace Workshop: Transform for Individuals / Transform for Small Groups and Churches
Believing God by Beth Moore
Scripture:
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
~ John 16:13 (NIV)
Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
~ John 8:2-11 (ESV)
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