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God Hears Her Podcast

177. Navigating Change (with Brittany Hurd)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Guest Bio: Brittany Hurd is a former theatrical professional who, in late 2020, went a few rounds with a brain tumor and lost her eyesight. A trained singer, she has redirected her gifts toward chanting the Psalms in a musical theater style on the YouTube channel Canticlear. But her primary job is making her new husband a better Thomist, as they both re-learn what it means to build a virtuous and flourishing home in light of and in response to her blindness.

 

Show Summary: When we’re growing up, we probably have an idea of what we want our lives to look like. We may plan along the way and eventually find ourselves exactly where we wanted to be. However, sometimes our plans look nothing like what God has for us. Unexpectedly, we get a scary medical diagnosis, or something significant happens that alters the course of our lives. Brittany Hurd was diagnosed with a brain tumor that ended up taking her eyesight. This has completely changed her life, and now she’s navigating the change as a newlywed. Join hosts, Eryn Eddy Adkins and Vivian Mabuni, as they learn how Brittany takes it day by day with God in the midst of unexpected change during this God Hears Her conversation.

 

Notes and Quotes: 

  • “The Lord promises strength for the day. He tells us to ask for our daily bread, not for tomorrow’s bread, not for next week’s bread, but today’s.” —Brittany Hurd

  • “Despite what truly is a bad thing, the Lord brings even a better thing out of it.” —Brittany Hurd

  • “You don’t have to do the big, showy, pastoral prayers, where all the words are just right. Just speak to the Lord. . . He always turns it to some resolution.” —Brittany Hurd

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Faculties like sight, smell, that sort of a thing, are part of a functioning human person, and they are goods.

0:11.0

And when you do not have that faculty, when it's what he would say, privated from you, that is a bad thing.

0:18.0

No matter how you slice it, it's bad because your eyes were made to see.

0:27.3

You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning

0:32.5

truth that God hears you.

0:35.0

Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to lean on God

0:39.1

through scripture, story, and conversation at God hearsher.org. God hears her. Seek and she will find.

0:49.7

So most times we do remote recordings, but then every now and then we get to do it in person

0:55.1

which is so much better i think in person a hundred percent of the time i know just being able

1:00.6

to see somebody in the flesh versus a screen is just so life-giving and we're in our recording booth

1:07.7

here in grand rapids michigan and we have an amazing guest. I'm really excited

1:12.1

about before they hit record. I knew it was going to be a life-changing conversation. Also a fun one,

1:19.9

knowing that she has a background in theater and she's talked about being Italian. And I said,

1:25.3

this is going to be great, Vivian. And fun. Great and fun. So I'm really

1:29.9

excited to welcome you, Brittany. Thank you for being here on the God Here's Her podcast. Thanks so much

1:34.5

for having me. Yes. Tell us a little bit of your spiritual journey. Yeah. So my parents grew up

1:39.6

Roman Catholic and they became sort of evangelical Christians, I guess, Protestants, what have you,

1:44.5

when they were in high school, they were high school sweethearts. So we were in sort of broadly

1:48.3

evangelical churches until I was about 13, 14, something like that. We moved kind of into the

1:55.5

reformed Presbyterian-ish sphere of things. We're at a very small Presbyterian church for the rest of my childhood, really.

2:03.5

I always tell people that I grew up accidentally a covenant kid because my parents didn't have

2:10.1

that kind of idea of like, you baptize your babies and they grow up and be Christians and whatever,

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