…Suffering Can Be Sweet

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Cancer. Even saying the word, hearing the word – it makes my stomach drop. But when it’s tied to someone you love – it’s hard not just to say or to hear, all of a sudden, you feel it. When that word comes into your life, it’s a permanent marker. The lens through which you see the world shifts. Places have new meaning. You hear songs differently. Every day moments don’t feel so every day anymore. I didn’t think of any of this. Honestly, I didn’t know any of this, until my friend Jenny was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer. JENNY has invested in my life since I was a freshman in high school. She taught me unfiltered kindness, genuine openness, that it’s okay to not know where your keys are 80% of the time and more than anything else – she has taught me grace. How to give grace. How to receive it. How grace should be your default instead of your last resort. And, how, through the unexpected, through the fear, the worry, the pain – you take a posture of grace. A position molded by God’s faithfulness, goodness and His redemption. Jenny shares her story with us on No One Told Me Suffering Can Be Sweet.

Show Notes:

• It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way by Lysa Terkeurst

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