Living the Dash: Making Every Moment Count with Loren Ridinger and Lynda Randle
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week we take a heartfelt look at the “dash”—that time between our birth date and our death date—and how our faith can guide us to make every moment count. Entrepreneur and cofounder of Market America, Loren Ridinger, and gospel singer Lynda Randle join us to share their powerful stories of how trusting in God’s plan has shaped their journeys. With resilience and gratitude, they leaned into their faith through loss, fear, and even discrimination, and tell us how we can all leave a lasting legacy rooted in love and service.
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Interview Quotes:
“Grief is an extension of love. It is love in the harshest, hardest form.” - Loren Ridinger
“If I have a bad day personally—and a bad day could be I'm just sad, I don't want to get up, I feel heartbroken, I feel angry, I feel mad—I give myself grace for going through those emotions.” - Loren Ridinger
“When you lose someone, you lose belief. You question God. You question all types of things. And then all of a sudden, it's God that helps you back out of it. It's Him who says, ‘We can get through anything.’” - Loren Ridinger
“We're all going to have a death date. We all have that. But what we do with that line—that little dash—is what will make the difference. And that's what we do with our life. Let's make the biggest difference to help people. What are you going to do with the dash?” - Loren Ridinger, quoting her late husband JR Ridinger
“We only get this lifetime that we know of, and the most important thing that you can do is enjoy the journey because life is short.” - Loren Ridinger
“God used music in my life, not only as this instrument to encourage people and lift the hearts of people, but to help build bridges and communicate with people that maybe on any given day probably wouldn't even have me in their home.” - Lynda Randle
“When you can't have a conversation with some people because they just don't want to talk or they are so angry, music has a way of melting the heart, calming the spirit.” - Lynda Randle
“I know that the ministry that God's given me to build bridges is significant. It's necessary. And a lot of walls are coming down.” - Lynda Randle
“I just want every woman to know no matter what the brokenness, no matter what the pain, no matter what the devastation—God sees you as a whole woman.” - Lynda Randle
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| 1:02.6 | J.R.'s famous quote, which is, what are you going to do with the dash? |
| 1:06.3 | That little line between somebody's birthday and death date. |
| 1:09.8 | What we do with that line, that little |
| 1:12.2 | dash is what will make the difference. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. This week, we take a |
| 1:18.9 | heartfelt look at the dash, that time between our birth date and our death date, and how our faith |
| 1:24.3 | can guide us to make every moment count. Entrepreneur and co-founder of Market America, |
| 1:29.5 | Morin Ridinger, and gospel singer Linda Randall, |
| 1:32.2 | join us to share their powerful stories of how trusting in God's plan has shaped their journeys. |
| 1:37.6 | With resilience and gratitude, they leaned into their faith through loss, |
| 1:40.8 | fear, and even discrimination. |
| 1:42.8 | And tell us how we can all leave a lasting legacy |
| 1:45.1 | rooted in love and service. Let's begin with Lauren's story. |
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