EP. 68: Hope that Overcomes (with Joyce Dinkins)

How do you experience hope? Maybe you’re hopeful for something? Or you have a strong hope in who God says He is? Or maybe you feel hopeless and are starting to wonder what hope even is! On this episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa talk to Joyce Dinkins, a woman that comes from a generation of people hoping for better circumstances. Joyce exemplifies this godly attribute of hope and talks about it with a wisdom that comes from God’s Spirit.

About Our Guest:

Joyce Dinkins is the executive editor for the Our Daily Bread Voices Collection. She has an incredible passion for inclusion and equity. Her career emphasis is amplifying the voices of diverse authors, African American and others, in the literary world. She has invested several decades as an editor serving at several Christian publishers across the United States.

Notes and Quotes:

• “My dad’s dad was born a slave, and that affected everything.”
• “I had access to freedom in my home; but I never forgot, and I still don’t forget where my parents came from, where my grandparents came from.”
• “People seeing me weren’t necessarily seeing what they were looking at.”
• “Hope to me is the truth.”
• “My parents taught me at an early age to not take abuse from anyone.”
• “They were capable, after all they had been through, to love their enemies.”
• “Love will allow us to overcome.”
• “Literacy is the right to vote, fair housing, the right to pursue education, etcetera.”
• “See us, hear us, express our stories.”
• “Go open that book [the Bible].”
• “Cry out to God.”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show: 

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
• Subscribe on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
• Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  
• Visit the Our Daily Bread Voices Collection
• Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy