First15 Conversation: Jennie Lusko
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
I don’t know if you can relate to this, but I’m beyond ready for this season to be over. After months of pandemic dominated news and overall unpredictability in life, I’m eager for things to go back to a sense of normalcy. There is no question that all of us have experienced struggle and suffering in some way over the past couple of months, and now the need for peace and healing seems greater than ever.
Today in the First15 podcast, Josh and I are joined by Jennie Lusko, the author of a brand new book called The Fight To Flourish. In our conversation, we explore the hope and comfort we can find in the presence of God, even when experiencing the pain of difficult circumstances. In 2012, Jennie and her husband Levi experienced the loss of their second-born daughter, Lenya, five days before Christmas. It’s a tragedy I can hardly imagine having to face. But I believe the story of their journey with God in the midst of such struggle will bring you hope and encouragement wherever you’re at today.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm so excited to share with you the conversation that Josh and I recently had with Jenny Lusk. |
| 0:12.0 | Jenny and her husband Levi lost her five-year-old daughter five days before Christmas in 2012. |
| 0:18.0 | And she has a beautiful perspective on how to seek God in the midst of suffering. In her new book |
| 0:25.1 | Fight to Flourish which releases next week she speaks to challenges like |
| 0:29.9 | trusting God even when you don't understand them and that pain can actually be a |
| 0:34.7 | sacred space in which you can flourish. Welcome to this bonus conversation |
| 0:40.0 | episode of the First of Team Podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Jenny, thanks so much for joining us on the First of Team podcast. I know life's been really challenging over the last few weeks and so I'm really appreciative that you would take the time to have a conversation with me and Josh today. |
| 1:01.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh gosh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:05.0 | It's such a joy and I'm really excited to get to be here with you. |
| 1:08.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, let's just start off by I just love to hear. |
| 1:11.0 | How have you in Lethai and the family been doing in the |
| 1:14.1 | events of this pandemic? You know it's so it's so interesting because |
| 1:20.1 | we're home a lot we I homeschool we have well we have five kids total one in heaven and four here on earth |
| 1:29.2 | A two of them are Daisy and Clover and they're nine and eight and I homeschool them and then our oldest is 14 |
| 1:37.6 | she's in eighth grade and goes to public middle school and then we have a |
| 1:42.2 | little guy at Lennox who's two and a half and |
| 1:45.8 | probably the greatest source of |
| 1:49.6 | of my like stress craziness in the season. |
| 1:53.7 | But I mean it's it's normal quote unquote normal in the sense |
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