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.

My name is Davey. I'm so grateful that you're joining me for a fantastic conversation that we have today with Dr. Carl Benzio. I am right now recording on location at Refuge Widowers Retreat, which is a retreat that my friend Daniel Brooker with his ministry refuge widowers leads twice a year,

and I get the wonderful privilege of helping him serve these widowers that have young kids at home

in those retreats.

And so I'm here on location.

If you're watching this on YouTube, you can see that the setting is a little bit different.

If you're listening to this on a podcast platform, you might notice that the microphone sounds a little bit different, hopefully not too much different, but, you know, I always take a travel microphone with me. You never know when I'm going to meet somebody along the journey that I want to hear their story and bring that to you. And sometimes I've got to do some recording for the team so they can get these podcast episodes out to you guys.

I'm just grateful that you tune in every single week and that you're joining us on the journey that we get to join you on your journey.

I've heard from several of these widowers just how impactful it has been.

Even before I met them in this retreat, it's been to have the Nothing Is Wasted

Podcasts as a resource to fall back on, to really borrow faith from other people's journeys,

other people's stories, regardless of whether or not the story matches up with their own.

That's what I love about this podcast is as you hear from other people who are

walking through different types of suffering, you can glean so much from their journey.

And your faith is bolstered and you're encouraged in your walk with Christ. And so that's what

our aim is. And there are times when you, man, when you see God's hand in something, and it's undeniable

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