What if the decision you’ve been putting off could actually open up possibilities for your life and your dream that you haven’t even considered?

Carol Willis launches into this conversation with a reminder of the changing nature of our dreams over time and life transitions. There’s a palpable tension between taking tangible steps towards a dream and the reality that our dreams will always be a work in progress.

IF YOU’VE ever FELT uncertain about the changing nature your dream, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU!

Following the death of her husband several years ago, it seemed prudent for Carol to maintain the security of full-time employment (and the benefits to go with it) rather than stepping out on her own to pursue a dream career.

However, Carol has found her way to that dream and she’s here today to share a few strands of the story about discovering purpose through a self-directed career that feels energizing and is drawing her toward wholeness in who God created her to be.

In this episode with Carol Willis, you’ll learn about:

How a simple (even unspoken) prayer in faith can transform your circumstances,
Why we can let go of the idea of ever arriving at the finish line,
Holding tension between the demands of young children in one season of motherhood and the gift of time you’ll receive once you release them into the world.

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Words have been Carol’s friend ever since her dad taught her to read at the age of five. She wrote bad poetry in high school and was news editor for her school newspaper. After 2 ½ years as an English major at Goshen College in Indiana, she set school aside to get married and raise children, returning later to earn a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, at Regis University in Denver.

Carol’s professional journey has included writing and editing, substitute teaching, tutoring, and six years as a nonprofit development director. For the past six years she has owned her own communications training and writing business called The Clapping Oak. In 2020 she published her book, Post-Homeschooling Moms: New Season New Growth.

She serves as an elder for her church community, Sacred Grace Englewood, and on the board of directors of two nonprofits. She has three children and ten grandchildren.

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Post-Homeschooling Moms: New Season, New Growth, by Carol Willis
Carol’s self-published book helping moms find direction for the next season of their lives.

Scripture:

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
~ Isaiah 55:12 (NIV)

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
~ Isaiah 61:3 (ESV)

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’

If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
12 Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
~ Isaiah 58:6-12 (NKJV)

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
~ Psalm 37:4 (ESV)

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