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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

God’s Hand Over Everything  :: Tori Hope Petersen [Ep 366]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

God ordains the time and space we inhabit - sometimes that’s one home for decades, sometimes it’s 12 homes in 6 years and instant homelessness at age 18. It was the latter for Tori Petersen and for so many other children in the foster care system. Tori has accomplished a lot since then - 5 time State Champion in track and field, a book releasing August 30th, and even a Mrs. Universe 2022 title. But if you asked her how she got here, she would say it was because someone loved and served the “least of these.” (Matthew 25:40)

She was the least of these. She experienced extreme difficulty while in foster care, but looking back she sees God’s fatherly hand guiding her all along the way, loving her through the words and actions of her track coach, and now working through her and her husband to others as they model loving and serving the “least of these” for their own kids. Tori tells her compelling story in her new book, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family Through Foster Care, which releases August 30, 2022. 

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0:00.0

Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alarm Podcast. I'm your host, Heather McFadian,

0:12.2

and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and

0:17.5

resources so you know that you don't mom alone. And in this episode, number 366, I get

0:25.9

to welcome back on the show, Tori Peterson. I really wanted people to understand the

0:35.4

really dark place that I was in because of the abuse that I had experienced and because

0:42.3

of the sin in the world. And I wanted people to understand like no matter how dark of

0:50.2

the place you're coming from, no matter what you've done or what you've had done to you,

0:56.3

God loves you. And he can bring you out of that place with his light and with his hand

1:02.9

that's been over your life. Tori came on the show three years ago and shared her story

1:10.4

of being a child in the foster care system in an out of 12 different homes over six years

1:15.2

and homeless at the age of 18. Since we recorded that episode, she has been a foster parent

1:21.7

herself and you're going to hear more about that journey and how it didn't quite end how

1:26.3

she thought, but how she saw God's hand. She followed his lead. She continued to serve

1:32.8

the least of these even if it didn't look like what she thought it would look like.

1:37.7

It's super inspiring no matter what position you're in right now to remember that God

1:42.2

is in control and that he will lead you our job is to follow and obey and serve who he

1:48.9

places in front of us. Even if it doesn't look like what we think it's going to look

1:52.8

like, including, oh my, you can't wait to hear what God did in Tori's life this last

1:57.9

year. And the position she holds, it's out of this world. All right, let's get right

2:02.5

to it. Here we go. Tori, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

2:09.7

Thank you, Heather. I have to say this because I feel like it's important when it comes

2:16.5

to how we see people and how we help them in their calling. You were the first person

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