Sheridan Voysey: Learning To Let Go Of A Decade-Long Dream

How do you learn to let go of a dream - one that you have prayed for, hoped for and worked towards for more than a decade?

Sheridan Voysey's story is marked by dreams - some that came to pass, and others that he had to let go of. As he shares his story with Karl, he speaks of his childhood in Queensland, how he started in radio broadcasting and the life he and his wife Merryn built. He then explores the infertility journey they endured, and what it took for them to walk away from a dream and a future they both so desperately longed for. He shares some of the highlights of his career, the low points of his personal life and how God has used both him and Merryn since their move to Oxford (literally, in life-saving ways)!

About Sheridan Voysey

Sheridan Voysey is the author of nine books, a presenter on BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought, and the founder of the Friendship Lab, a charity tackling adult loneliness. Born in Brisbane to English parents, he spent the 1990s and 2000s building a career in Australian Christian radio, eventually hosting the nationally syndicated Open House on Hope 103.2 Sydney to audiences of around 100,000 listeners a week.

Key Moments & Highlights

Growing up the only child of English parents in Brisbane

A secret teenage career as a graffiti artist under cover of night

His parents' ten-year, ultimately door-slamming break from the Jehovah's Witnesses, sparked by his mother's search for the true identity of Jesus across three different Bibles

A cryptic two-week wait for a letter that led him, almost by accident, to discover the Bible college and the radio station he needed were right next door to each other

Marrying Merryn and the ten years of "expectation, disappointment" that followed - special diets, healing prayer, IVF, and a two-year wait for a foster placement that never came

The devastating Christmas Eve phone call revealing a pregnancy that never was and the decision to leave Australia's "promised land" for an unknown season in Oxford

Five years of quiet grief in the UK, rebuilt around two verses in Ephesians and the realisation that his identity had to be rooted somewhere deeper than his career