Welcome to the Nothing is Wasted podcast, where we meet you in your pain and help you discover a pathway through.

No matter what you've faced or what you're walking through now, we believe your story isn't over.

Each week, you'll hear powerful conversations with people who've partnered with God to reclaim their stories of trauma, loss, and heartbreak.

And we'll chat with Christian experts who offer wisdom and practical tools for healing.

This is a place of hope, redemption, and the reminder that even in your darkest moments, God is still writing your story.

Because with him, nothing is wasted. I'm your host,

Davey Blackburn. Hello, hello. Welcome to the Nothing is Wasted podcast. I'm so grateful that

you're joining us yet again for another great conversation this week with a friend or who has

become a good friend now of the podcast of the

ministry, Rachel Wojo. And today, this is a really powerful episode because I've had a lot

of conversations recently. In fact, I was speaking at a church a couple of weeks ago and

someone came up to me and asked me this question right here. Why does it feel like that there are waves of loss that happened in our life? And it does. I've noticed a phenomenon that it feels like that loss comes in like threes or in fours. It's like one after the other after the other. And it's almost like you're just kind of getting your head up. Like you got like a wave takes you out. You just kind of get your head up above the crest of that and then boom another one hits you and so it's really

feels so disorienting and nearly impossible to get your legs back under you and often what begins to

happen is that the the intimacy the experience of intimacy that you feel with God, through prayer especially,

it feels like it loses its power, like it's not working.

Like your hope is beginning to run dry.

And it just, it begins to almost start leading you into a place of despair, like a desert season, where you're not

hearing from God because you're just getting pounded wave after wave, after wave, after wave.

And that's why I am so grateful for this conversation that we have with Rachel Wojo.

It's raw. It's redemptive. She's inviting us into this long road of grief that she's experienced

and that many of us, I know we were listening to this or watching this have experienced.

And through it, she's inviting us into a deeper, quieter work of learning to trust God

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