While Walking with Purpose Founder Lisa takes time to write our next women’s Bible study, Laura Phelps welcomes guest Caitlin Bean to the Hope for Right Now podcast for a seven-week series: Desert Bloom, A Lenten Journey.
Lent is a time of sacrifice, preparation, and spiritual waiting—a time to prepare our hearts for Easter through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. For many of us, it has become about exterior performance, a “holy checklist” we begin on Ash Wednesday and struggle to sustain for 40 days. And preparation? Who has time for that? We are exhausted—after all, it was just Christmas!
If this is how your heart feels at the start of Lent, this series is for you—offering practical encouragement, Scripture reflections, and simple ways to experience a more meaningful, peace-filled Lent.
In today’s final episode on Hope for Right Now, Laura and Caitlin rejoice in the Easter season and talk about all things new life, new blooms, and the new paths ahead! He is risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Isaiah 58:11: Then the Lord will guide you always and satisfy your thirst in parched places, will give strength to your bones, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a flowing spring whose waters never fail.
Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Isaiah 45:8: You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it. (NIV)
Genesis 3:19: You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
1 Corinthians 15:55–58: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is thy victory O death, where is thy sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Revelation 21:4: He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.
Romans 6:6: We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
2 Corinthians 1:3–5: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Which phase of the journey challenged you most? Where were you most surprised by joy? How has God transformed your desert into a superbloom?
Show mentions.
Be Still: A Walking with Purpose Podcast, launching June 2026
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Living in the Father’s Love
Caitlin Bean and Laura Phelps, Desert Bloom: Discovering Unexpected Joy in the Wilderness
Paw Patrol
Pope Leo XIV, homily
Norbertines of St. Michael's Abbey, The Great Fast
Laura Phelps, Substack, Words & Birds
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