Emotional Pain is the Deepest Kind of Suffering | The Gathering Place Podcast Episode 168
The Gathering Place, a Podcast from Blessed is She
Blessed is She
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Today we're joined by Megan Hjelmstad for this very special Lent Episode. We talk all about various kinds of suffering and how we can receive God's strength so that our suffering becomes redemptive.Megan's book, Offer It Up is available right here: https://stpaulcenter.com/store/offer-it-up-discovering-the-power-and-purpose-of-redemptive-sufferingNew here? We're SO glad you're here! Hit that *subscribe* button and the bell to be notified when we upload!SUBSCRIBE to our free daily devotions: https://blessedisshe.net/subscribe/Check our our FREE RESOURCES for you: https://blessedisshe.net/free-resources/Catholic Resources + How To Guides: https://blessedisshe.net/catholic-resources-how-to-guides/Download our FREE study guide: https://blessedisshe.net/study-guide/Find out more: https://blessedisshe.net/about/Check out our Shop: https://blessedisshe.net/shopShop our Amazon favs: https://www.amazon.com/shop/blessedissheBlessed is She exists for any woman who wants to radically follow Jesus through a vibrantly Catholic life every single day. We create beautiful and accessible resources, products, and experiences to foster community and deepen faith, both online and in person. We invite you into this community, no matter where you are on your walk with Christ.You belong here.
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| 0:00.0 | Emotional pain is the deepest kind of suffering. |
| 0:04.0 | It's even more deep than any physical suffering that could happen in our lives. |
| 0:08.3 | When we're in that place of really intense suffering, sometimes all we can do is fall back on these basic foundational prayers. |
| 0:18.1 | I don't know where my next mouthful is coming from. |
| 0:20.7 | It's true. We don't. We my next mouthful is coming from. It's true. We don't. |
| 0:22.7 | We sometimes have the illusion that we do, but then we figure out that we don't. We need him. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi, Jenna. Hello, Beth. And hello, Megan. Hi, friends. Hello, Beth. |
| 0:38.4 | And hello, Megan. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:41.0 | Hi, what a surprise. |
| 0:42.9 | You know, we don't often have guests on here anymore, but you're one of us. |
| 0:47.9 | You're one of our dear friends. |
| 0:49.1 | So it only made sense that you would join us, especially this week of our Linton series. Thanks for being |
| 0:54.8 | here, friend. It's such a gift to be with my favorite people in the world. Thanks, Megan. Yeah, |
| 0:59.7 | we should bring the guests back. Do you guys want guests again? Tell us down below. This is a |
| 1:03.4 | great question. Jenna, you were just a guest on a podcast. I was. This new podcast that's going |
| 1:09.4 | to be starting, it's called Witness to Love Productions. |
| 1:13.0 | Whoa. Fancy. Fancy. And it was so great. I don't know. It was wonderful. Sometimes, I don't know if you've experienced this, Megan, but on podcasts, there's a little bit of like a truth serum that happened. I feel like before you go on, you're like, |
| 1:29.0 | oh, I can be really honest here, which why. I don't know. Lots of people are going to listen to this. |
| 1:33.6 | And I'm like, wow, I was just really honest. Yeah. But anyway, it was really beautiful. |
| 1:38.8 | I remember you called me, well, you left me a voice memo after. Yeah. And you were just |
| 1:43.7 | raving about so many |
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