Welcome to this week's bonus interview on the Prayers of Rest podcast. I'm Kendra Stanton, your co-host,

and this week, Asherita is joined by her guest, Noelle Beck, to talk about praying for those who have lost a child.

Noelle Beck is the founder of First Glance, which seeks to meet the physical,

emotional, and spiritual needs of teenagers in Kenmore. In 2017, Noel established Akron

on purpose, where she helps others unlock the fullness of relationship we can have with God,

and hosts a yearly conference rallying, encouraging, and highlighting the amazing

women of Akron.

In this week's interview, Noelle shares her story of a miraculous pregnancy followed

by the stillborn birth of her baby boy.

You'll especially want to hear the message God used to prepare her for this experience and how she was able to hold

on to the fact that even in the hard things, God is still good. This conversation will be a little

bit longer than usual, but that's because God has done so much through Noel's story of

love and loss, and we didn't want you to miss out on any of it. All right, let's listen in.

Well, well, thank you again for being here for joining. Like I said, before we started recording,

I feel like we move in a lot of the same circles and have friends in common. And it's a joy to

finally be able to sit down and talk with you today.

Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for inviting me. Yeah. So this season on the Prose of Rest podcast, we are

praying through tricky relationships. And that tends to go one of two ways, whether it's people

that we don't really want to pray for because of the tension

in that relationship and we don't know what to say, or people who go through life experiences

that are so challenging and so different from our own life experience that we want to pray for

them. We just genuinely don't know what it's like to walk in their shoes and don't know how to

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