Still waiting on a God-given dream? This episode names the ache—and shows you why the wait is not the waste. 🌳

Have you quietly set aside a dream you used to talk about? A calling, a ministry, a book, a marriage that feels like partnership, or simply the longing to finally feel at home in your own story? Friend, this episode is for you.

In this episode, Misty gets deeply personal about the years she spent in the gap—watching God seem to fulfill everyone else’s dreams while she was left holding the bag after her marriage ended. Out of that pit came one of the most life-changing challenges she’s ever received: Give it twenty years. Not as a life sentence, but as an act of mercy—God’s honest invitation into the slow, sacred work of becoming.

Through the stories of Sarah, David, Noah, and Joseph—whose waits stretched from 13 to 75 years—Misty shows us that the gap between God’s promise and its fulfillment has always been long, and always been intentional. Drawing from Isaiah 61:3 and the image of the oak tree (which takes 20–50 years to reach maturity), she makes the case that what looks like stalling is often deepening—root time, not wasted time.

Misty also draws a crucial distinction between delay and detour—and gives listeners a practical question that might just reframe everything: Has God ever told you this dream was canceled? Or have you just been waiting so long it started to feel that way?

If you’ve been quiet about a calling, wondering if you missed God, or exhausted by a season that won’t seem to move—this episode will meet you there. Grab your journal. Your wait is not your waste.

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