Gritty Faith: Through Trauma, Trusting God in Difficult Times--Erik Reed
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | All those questions about a future that you don't control started crippling my heart. |
| 0:28.9 | And I had never dealt with anxiety. I had never dealt with panic attacks in my life. |
| 0:32.5 | I thought I was going crazy. I didn't know what was happening to me. I thought I was having a heart |
| 0:35.4 | attack driving down the road. I'm like, I'm too young to have a heart attack. That can't be it. |
| 0:40.2 | But my heart's about to beat out of my chest, you know? That's what it felt like. I pulled over on the side of the road and called my wife on the interstate. And I was like, I don't know what's happening in my heart. I'm sweating in 30 degrees outside. My heart is beating out of my chest. |
| 0:53.1 | And she's like, go to the hospital. |
| 0:54.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:54.8 | She don't know what's happening either. |
| 0:56.2 | And so I learned she's like, go to the hospital. I don't know. |
| 0:54.8 | She don't know what's happening either. And so I learned soon as like, oh, that's a panic attack. |
| 0:59.9 | And I would irrationally have those for years ahead. Out of nowhere, they would happen. |
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| 1:31.6 | Today. Thank you. family life today. So not too long ago, I sat in a diner with a good friend of mine who's a dad and his daughter |
| 1:40.2 | was in Oxford High School walking down the hall when one of her classmates started |
| 1:46.8 | shooting kids in the hallway. |
| 1:49.8 | And I knew his daughter was at Oxford High School. |
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