#18: Can I Live My Life With Open Hands? [With Laura Story]
4:13 Podcast with Jennifer Rothschild
Jennifer Rothschild
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Her husband survived a brain tumor but her life has never been the same. Is it really a blessing in disguise? We all experience hard things we didn't plan but God can use them to give us even deeper and broader blessings if we open our hearts and our hands to receive.
Hear Laura Story's story and learn 3 practical ways you can live with open hands instead of hands balled in fists of anger or control.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, pause a moment and look at your hands. |
| 0:07.0 | No, really, I want you to look at your hands. |
| 0:10.0 | Are they open and relaxed? |
| 0:12.0 | Are they grasping tightly to something? |
| 0:15.0 | Like your steering wheel or your phone? |
| 0:17.0 | Maybe they are bald up into fists right now, |
| 0:19.7 | because you're stressed out or tense |
| 0:21.7 | and you didn't even realize it. When life doesn't |
| 0:24.9 | turn out like we've planned, it can be easy to live with clenched fists of anger or |
| 0:29.8 | be tight-fisted just trying to grasp for control. Well, relax your hands, my friends. |
| 0:36.3 | Actually, why don't you just relax? Because today, singer, songwriter, |
| 0:41.8 | Laura Story is on the podcast and she's going to help us |
| 0:46.1 | understand how to let go of some of that stuff and find blessings even in the |
| 0:51.6 | hard places of our lives. |
| 0:53.2 | You know that's her song, right? |
| 0:54.8 | She's the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter |
| 0:58.5 | of that beloved song, blessings that I happen to always cry through and she's got something incredible to say to us today. |
| 1:06.1 | So let's get official. |
| 1:09.1 | Welcome to the 413 podcast where practical encouragement and biblical wisdom set you up to |
| 1:18.6 | live the I can life because you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. |
| 1:26.7 | Now, your host, my friend, my sister, Jennifer Rothschild. |
| 1:32.4 | Hey, hey there, I am Jennifer, and I'm here to just help you be and do more than you even feel capable of by living the I-Can life of |
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