Gifts of Joy in Seasons of Heartache with Dawn Barton
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
[Special Series] Dawn Barton is author of Laughing Through the Ugly Cry, and her personal journey through traumatic experiences have led her to believe that the obstacles in our lives should not beat us down, but give us reasons to more fully embrace joy wherever we can find it. In this edition of Peace for Uncertain Times, Dawn gives us tips on how to create joy in lives--even during difficult seasons.
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Interview Quotes:
“I am a woman who loves to spread the message of joy.” - Dawn Barton
“It was in those seasons of heartache that I learn what joy felt like.” - Dawn Barton
“Even though I turned from Him [God], He never turned away from me..He had me always in the palm of His hand.” - Dawn Barton
“Great things can come from horrible, traumatic times.” - Dawn Barton
“There’s a moment, a pivot point, when we come out of any situation where we get to make a choice of what’s the next part of the story.” - Dawn Barton
“Positivity and joy do not just happen...they are something we have to work at day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute sometimes.” - Dawn Barton
“I promise you wherever there is heartache, there are immeasurable amounts of joy.” - Dawn Barton
“Joy is a choice. Joy is God, God is joy.” - Dawn Barton
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Dawn Barton and I am the author of Laughing Through the Ugly Cry and finding unstoppable |
| 0:05.2 | joy and we live in Florida sunny Florida and I'm a mom I'm a grandmother I am a wrangler of horses, four dogs, and three cats. And most of all, I am a woman who loves to spread the message of joy. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Jesus Calling Podcast as we seek to find peace in uncertain times. |
| 0:27.0 | Our guest is writer Don Barton, who encourages us to find God's gifts of joy during challenging seasons. |
| 0:34.0 | When you look at my life, the storyboard of my life, if you will, I have lost a child to a rare |
| 0:40.9 | bacteria of pneumonia. |
| 0:42.3 | I have been raped and the guy was caught |
| 0:44.9 | and it went to a full jury trial. |
| 0:46.6 | I survived stage three triple negative breast cancer. |
| 0:49.5 | My mother, she had a brain aneurysm that burst |
| 0:52.1 | and she is doing well today. My sister passed away from breast cancer and my husband battled with alcoholism and he's five years sober today. |
| 1:00.0 | But I will tell you that today I can look back and tell you that all of those things as crazy as it sounds all of those things were gifts because it was in those |
| 1:11.2 | Seasons of heartache that I learned how what joy felt like, what truly, I think |
| 1:17.0 | when you really, really know what heartache feels like, then you really, really know what |
| 1:20.6 | joy feels like. And through all of that heartache I didn't have a perfect |
| 1:25.6 | easy journey with the Lord if you will I think it was my journey to find him in such an |
| 1:30.6 | intense beautiful way that I have today. |
| 1:33.1 | But I was raised believing in God, but not really |
| 1:36.0 | having a relationship with the Lord. |
| 1:37.9 | And then when I lost my child, I was very angry. I was angry that I loved a God that took babies away from mommies and I wanted no part of it. And so I just stopped loving God. He didn't stop loving me, but I stopped loving him. |
| 1:55.0 | And it took me years. It took me gently, slowly, and I was allowed to be mad at him. |
| 2:00.4 | And I was allowed to question, and I was allowed to tip-toe back into my faith. |
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