12. God's Calling and Unmet Expectations with Amber Gandolph

       If you’ve walked with God for any amount of time & heard God calling you - maybe it didn’t turn out how you thought, the expectation you had wasn’t met, or God said now turn this way. 
+”There was a big gap between our expectations and reality.” ~Amber

      Amber shares her family’s intimate adoption story of Laney joining their family and then becoming a part of another family. 
+ ”There’s this expectation I had that God would show up in the way I wanted Him to, because I was doing what He asked us to do. Not to say God didn’t show up, but it wasn’t how I expected Him to show up.” 

       The reality of Laney being placed with a new family…
+ “It’s a form of grief…We question - why did it have to turn out this way.”

+ “Now I can also look back and think - I do not regret that we obeyed God in this difficult decision, even though it didn’t turn out the way we thought it should.”

+ ”There was a lot of shame involved, which is not from God, but it does make you question why things are the way they are.”

**My prayer through this podcast is that you will answer God’s call on your life and give Him your expectations.

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