Hey, this is Meredith. This week, we're sharing an episode from the archives, page eight of the unfolding.

It's Michelle Lewis's story. Have you ever felt like God asked you to lay down a dream?

When we have to let go of something that we're passionate about, we feel grief and sadness,

sometimes even depression. Michelle has walked that journey and she's wrestled with God. If you're in that place

today, I think her story will encourage you. We'll be back next week with a new episode, but for now,

enjoy this one from the archives. I'm sitting there like, how am I going to share about hope when right

now I'm feeling this excruciating pain in an area where

there is no more hope. I mean, it's just not ever going to happen. God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hi, I'm Meredith Foster. From the time Michelle Lewis was a little girl, she had a dream. Her

greatest desire in life was to be a wife and a mother. She imagined her husband and their house.

She'd be a stay-at-home mom, and she would do the thing she was passionate about, having and nurturing

children. Psalm 374 says, delight yourself in the Lord,

and he'll give you the desires of your heart. But what do you do when God calls you to let go of

your dream, but hold on to him? So my backstory would go back to kind of thinking about the question, what do you want to be when you grow up?

And I would always have answered that question that I wanted to be a mom.

I was not ever really a career-minded person.

Like, what is your job goal?

I want to be a mom.

And so that was always my desire. My mom was a stay-at-home mom.

My grandma was a stay-at-home mom. And I wanted to, I wanted to be like them. And I wanted to nurture

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