With more than 40 million copies sold, the original classic edition of Jesus Calling is your daily

guide to living a more peaceful life. Its price and size also make it the perfect gift for anyone

who needs encouragement. Find Jesus Calling wherever you buy books. Every day I pray for divine order,

I use to have a very bad habit of just being attached to everything. Okay, God, it's going to go

like this and I put my intentions out. And God's like, yeah, you can still put your intentions

out. All that's great. You should have them. You should do that. You should have a plan.

But you have to be resolved to let me figure out the how. You may not get exactly what your

intention was. It's either going to be all of it, some of it, or none of it. But if you're asking

for divine order, you'll be in the right place. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.

In the bleak aftermath of unspeakable tragedy, it is faith that dawns as our beacon of survival

and healing. Faith, by its very nature, is about trust, hope, and a belief that God is in control.

It allows us to seek solace and strength in something greater than ourselves,

and it provides a comforting balm for our wounded hearts. Both of our guests this week faced heart

breaking circumstances that could have shaken their faith beyond repair. But each of them chose

to wait and see what God would do in their lives as they healed from their scars and faced

a new way of living through their pain. Nicole Avont is an author and film producer who grew up

around the music business. Her father, Clarence Avont, was known as the Godfather of Black Music,

and as an executive in the music business. He furthered the careers of jazz legends like

Sarah Vaughn and Jimmy Smith, and was a sought-after mentor for artists like Jamie Foxx, David Geffen,

Whitney Houston, and others. Nicole's family life was steeped in music and in faith. It was the faith

she would cling to when tragedy struck twice. First, the devastating loss of her mother to the

hands of a gunman who invaded their home, and then the loss of her father shortly after.

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