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Bonus Episode 5: The Thorn We Don't Talk About
Bonus Episode 5: The Thorn We Don't Talk About
Sickness, lament, and the ordinary griefs of faith
Years ago, a routine morning ended with me unable to feel my legs — the start of a story that would eventually include spinal surgery, PTSD, a mental health ward, and, decades later, a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's.In this bonus episode, I sit with the question sickness alwaysseems to ask: where is God in all of this?
Drawing on the lament psalms, Job's grief and defiance, and Paul's unanswered prayer over his "thorn in the flesh," this is an honest, sometimes funny look at what it means…
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