Episode 234 - Seeing Beauty in the Darkest Days with Colleen Chao

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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How do you live life with the end in mind, especially when you are told your days are numbered? We all know that Scripture calls us to live life through the lens of heaven, but how do we really do that? For Colleen Chao, finding out she had Stage 4 Cancer forced her to think about living the way God called her to in spite of the fact or perhaps because of the fact, that she is dying. Having expected life to go in a much different direction, Colleen has been learning to see the beauty in the most unexpected places like suffering and pain. In this episode, Davey has a raw conversation with Colleen on seeing God's beauty in the darkness of suffering, the transformative power of gratitude, and how the blood of Jesus can keep us from dwelling in our regrets. You don't have to have a life-altering diagnosis to be encouraged by Colleen's story of living life fully when heaven is closer than you anticipated. Website: http://www.colleenchao.comBook: Hands of a Fiercely Tender God: 31 Days of Hope, Honesty, and Encouragement for the Sufferer https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Fiercely-Tender-God-Encouragement/dp/0802429904/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LLTTB8E59IIY&keywords=colleen+chao&qid=1656337889&sprefix=colleen+chao%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, nothing has wasted family before we dive into this podcast episode.
0:03.6	I just want to make an announcement that I'm super excited about.
0:07.3	We are finally going to Israel, and I want to invite you to come with us.
0:11.7	Christine, I would love to an extended invitation for you to come with us to Israel.
0:15.2	We were supposed to go back in October of 2020, and we all know what happened there.
0:21.1	And we have delayed this trip for some time because of all the travel restrictions.
0:25.6	But the good news is as of March of this past year, all the travel restrictions were lifted
0:31.4	for Israel, all of the requirements, vaccination requirements, all of that sort of thing.
0:36.1	We're completely lifted.
0:37.2	So we're going to go to Israel in May of 2023.
0:41.3	The trip is May 29th through June 6th of 2023.
0:45.6	If you want to find out more information about that, you've got nothing is wasted.com slash Israel.
0:50.6	But let me just say this.
0:51.6	There are frequently people will ask me questions about when was the turning point
0:57.2	in my healing journey.
0:58.8	And six months after my late wife was killed, I was invited on a trip to Israel with a church
1:05.2	that's really surrounded me during that season.
1:08.0	And that is I can look back on.
1:10.3	That is the major critical turning point of my healing journey.
1:14.8	For the first time, color was beginning to come back into my life.
1:19.0	And I can't necessarily explain all the reasons why.
1:22.8	But I think I had something to do with walking in the places that Jesus walked,
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