"God Will Provide" by Shelby Novak

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, The Wrong Station is proud to be partnering with Scare You To Sleep. You can listen to them wherever you get your podcasts, including classic Wrong Station episodes being narrated by Shelby Novak! You can find more information at www.scareyoutosleep.com, and @scareyoutosleep on social media. -- Written by Shelby Novak and performed by Anthony Botelho. Support The Wrong Station by subscribing at ⁠www.patreon.com/thewrongstation⁠. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at ⁠www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners.
0:09.3	This episode is brought to you in partnership with Scare You to Sleep.
0:14.0	Now, we've partnered with them before, doing some cross-promotions,
0:17.3	but this year we decided to take things a bit further.
0:22.8	Today, I will be reading,
0:29.4	God Will Provide, originally published by Scary to Sleep, and written by host Shelby Novak.
0:35.9	Likewise, Shelby has narrated four classic wrong station episodes, I believe, starting on their episode 377 with When the Water Come Up, and I encourage
0:40.9	you to head over there as soon as you're finished up over here. Links in the show notes.
0:45.9	Scary to Sleep is a fantastic show, the huge library of anthology episodes. About 400, all narrated
0:52.9	by the inimitable Shelby and written by her and a whole other
0:56.0	host of great horror writers. If you enjoy Wrong Station, I am certain you will enjoy, scare you to sleep,
1:03.1	which you'll get an idea of as you sit back, relax, and listen to, God will provide. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm Moving mom into the nursing home was hard.
1:59.8	Her Alzheimer's had just deteriorated her mind to the point where
2:03.1	she couldn't take care of herself anymore. With all the overtime, I'd been working, and my boss's
2:08.3	irritation with the amount of times my mother called a day, I just couldn't take care of her myself.
2:13.7	It also wouldn't have been fair to leave her for my husband to take care of. He's retiring soon, and his job allows him to work from home three days out of the week. "'But he would have ended up as a full-time nurse during those days, on top of juggling his job. "'So for the past few weekends, we toured different homes. "'I was already wracked with guilt of the thought of putting my mother in one of these places, "'so I had to find a place with a spotless reputation and a staff equipped to handle mom's needs.
2:38.9	Surprisingly, one of the hardest things was to find a place that would also cater to her vegetarian diet.
2:43.5	Mom's been vegetarian since before it was a big thing.
2:46.3	She told me once she hadn't had meat since she lived in Oklahoma before she met dad.
2:52.2	Mom grew up in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. I don't know much about her time there. She rarely
2:58.6	spoke of it. I know my grandparents had died there, but when and how was also a mystery. Growing up,
3:07.0	my dad's parents had almost overwhelmingly filled the
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