S7:E2: Kate Watkins: “Lessons in Delight & Suffering”

What if your winding career path is actually the point? As Kate Watkins, who started on a farm and has come back to the farm, puts it, “Your life is chasing you your whole life.” Her desires to delight were planted early as a candy striper, leading her through a maze of jobs and educational pursuits that would culminate in a doctorate of ministry and the life lesson to “minister wherever you are.” A major insight, gained from her work in Tennessee’s prisons, was that most of us on the “outside” have a weak theology of suffering. Talking with Kate is ever a feast for my soul. May listening in be a feast for yours.  Highlights from our conversation Early dreams can come to fruition “Your life is chasing you your whole life.”  God places people in your life, even at the dry cleaner’s and the mall. Do Kingdom where you are. Be a chaplain where you are. How a baby that leaped in her stomach… …was born 7 years later. And when Richard Goode asked her to pray about it… …she didn’t need to because, “Today is the answer to that prayer.” I share a holy moment from my own work at the prison. Of how you think you’re going to bless another, and you are the one who comes away blessed. Follow Leanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanne.w.smith/ Visit Leanne's Website: https://www.leannewsmith.com/ Contact Leanne's team @ [email protected]