Episode 77: Perfect Has a Made

Our story this month seems totally made up. You may have a hard time believing it is true, until you read past the highlight reel of her life. Diana Timmons ridiculous life includes time with Pope Francis, Zig Ziglar, Barbara Bush, Joel Osteen, Dallas Willard, and time in The White House, the Vatican, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Israel [13 times], and presence at the red-carpet premiere of the recent Lionsgate film, I Can Only Imagine – 2 about her son (by marriage) Tim Timmons played by Milo Ventimiglia of This is Us fame. Listen to the full podcast for the fuller list of unbelievables.  Laced through that highlight reel, however, is a little girl who carried the burden of perfectionism through some painful circumstances and came out on the other side with a faith refined in suffering. So much so that at the ripe young age of 79, Diana Timmons started Joy Please! a nonprofit dedicated to exploring the mystery of constant joy. Not because her life has been easy. It hasn’t. But because she asked God for joy in hard circumstances and He was pleased to give it to her.