Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David

Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, we'll hear from Eric Schumacher as he describes

a time in his life when it was very evident that God,

not Eric, was writing his life story. Eric is an author and a pastor, and his newest book is

called Ours, Biblical Comfort for Men Grieving Miscarriage, which is a 31-day devotional

to help men process their grief and find comfort from Scripture. This short excerpt is from a larger conversation on the Connecting podcast.

To hear the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 337.

Now here's this week's connecting clip of the week.

I wanted to go into musical theater.

I wanted to have a career in music and did contests, got one ratings and all state choir and all of these things, you know, through high school. And I got to my senior year. And the Lord simply took away my taste for it all. I could not enjoy it. I had no motivation to practice,

so I didn't do contest, solo contest that year. And so when I started getting invitations

from these private schools to audition for their music program and their scholarships, I had nothing

to take to them and audition and little motivation. And so I just didn't. And I was ending my high school

career, not knowing who I was, what I wanted to do, where to go next.

And my...

So, because I think the way you characterize that is important, but I want to ask you

why you chose that way of speaking, why would you say the Lord took that away from you?

Why wouldn't you just say I got bored with it?

Because of what he did through it.

I think I came to see that later that he took it away.

And part of it was the realization then I can't make myself love this.

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