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Letting Go of the Need to Fix

April 12, 2025April 11, 2025 ~ James ~ 2 Comments

We live in a culture of fixing. Everything from cracked screens to broken hearts to complicated systems—we’re told there’s always a way to make it better, quicker, neater. And often, that desire to fix comes from a good place: love, care, even hope. But lately, I’ve been learning—and relearning—a difficult but freeing truth: not everything … Continue reading Letting Go of the Need to Fix

  • Forty Years Later: Who Have I Become?
  • Ripening Intention: Showing Up as Yourself
  • Ripening View: Learning to See Relationally
  • A Creed for Those Who Are Sent
  • The Gifts You Never Saw Coming
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James Henry

Forty Years Later: Who Have I Become? - Infinitely Precious

What does forty years of ministry teach you — not about doing the work, but about who you become while doing it? In this milestone 90th episode of the Infinitely Precious Podcast, host James Henry marks his fortieth anniversary in pastoral ministry with a deeply personal reflection on identity, calling, and burnout. James traces his journey from a 20-year-old associate pastor obsessed with "checking every box" — preaching, visiting the sick, officiating weddings and funerals — to a three-year break brought on by perfectionism and exhaustion, and ultimately to therapy that helped him discover what was missing: presence over performance. Rather than asking "what have I learned," James asks the more searching question — "who have I become?" This episode is for anyone wrestling with burnout, vocational identity, perfectionism, or the quiet ache of feeling disconnected from the very work they were called to do. James offers a simple but hard-won truth: you are not meant to check boxes — you are meant to bring yourself fully to whatever you do. Be you. It's the truest gift you have to offer.You are infinitely precious and unconditionally loved for the gift you already are.
  1. Forty Years Later: Who Have I Become? 14:02
  2. Ripening Intention: Showing Up As Yourself 09:33
  3. Ripening View: Learning to See Relationally 10:41
  4. The Companion You Never Leave Behind 12:12
  5. The Gifts You Never Saw Coming 11:21
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