164: Gill Bentham and Living in the Locks with the Lord

Gill Bentham is an author and journaler and a nurse for over 30 years. Today, Gill shares the story of how she found life in Christ as a young woman, how the Lord was faithful through a difficult divorce, and the redemptive role of writing in her life. Gill shares with us why she wrote her latest book As If: Steering Your Life Without Strife, Navigating from Fantasy into Faith and Rising from Delusion into Destiny. As she wrote and lived alongside the canals in her town, she realized what a brilliant metaphor they are for walking with the Lord. And she shares with us how getting stuck waiting in the lock can be a good time for us even if it’s hard to wait. Gill has such a wonderful heart for helping others see themselves from the Lord’s perspective that I know you will be changed just by listening to this conversation.

Stories Gill shared:

Growing up in a Methodist house in Northern England
How she got into palliative care as a nurse
Giving her life to Christ at an outreach
Studying Scripture through devotionals and Bible reading on her own
Experiencing community at university
Her hunger for the Lord during this time
The mentor who built her trust in the Lord
Pastoring and the struggles with the church
The restlessness she lives with
How God helped her through a difficult marriage and divorce
The role of writing in her life
Writing her book As If

Great quotes from Gill:

Learning to be at rest in the moment, in the day, and take joy in the small events and blessing is a very big lesson in the last 10 years of my life.

He loves the institution of marriage. He was really clear to me that he was saying “I love you more than the institution of marriage.”

God stands at the completion of our lives and he sees that whole golden strip across our lives even when we can’t.

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