Series 7 of 10
Almost Qualified
When Your Résumé Trails Behind Who You Are
Most of the episodes in this series are told in past tense. This one isn't.
Most of the episodes in this series are told in past tense. This one isn't. This is the chapter Chris is living right now, recorded without a resolution, without a tidy ending, without safe ground to narrate from.
This episode speaks from inside the tension of professional "almost": the silence of unemployment, the conditional nature of fixed-term contracts, the weight of failed certifications, the rejection emails that pile up, and the referrals that go nowhere. We name what it feels like when your career becomes the place insecurity camps out, when shame attaches to your work life and seeps into how you see yourself as a spouse, a parent, a human being.
Through Ephesians 3:20, we wrestle honestly with a verse that can sound almost cruelly hopeful in the middle of instability, and ask whether God's "beyond" might be wider than passing scores and long-term contracts. Drawing from Colonel Harland Sanders, who collected over a thousand rejections in his mid-sixties before his recipe became a global brand, we confront the lie that being "unqualified" in society's timelines disqualifies you from purpose.
If your life feels like one long audition no one invited you to, if you check your email more than you check your pulse, if you're tired of editing the story of your life hoping someone will finally say yes: this episode is for you.