Sarah Walton remembers the difficult early days of raising her son.

He was defiant.

He was causing constant trouble for us, banging his head into the wall.

It made everything difficult in life.

It was a really lonely journey because we'd take him to a doctor and they'd say he seems normal.

This is the Revivar Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Wacklemouth, author of Choosing Gratitude

for November 20th, 2017.

Well, not long ago, I was handed a manuscript to a book that was going to be released shortly,

and I had not finished reading the introduction to the book before I was making a mental list of friends that I knew were going to really want to read this book.

And that's because there's some families, some individuals in my life who have been through

a lot of chronic pain issues, Lyme disease, other health issues that these women and their

families, their children have experienced.

And I've seen them go through a seemingly endless round of doctors and specialists and consultants

and diets and deal with just debilitating weakness and pain. And so this book is titled

Hope When It Hurtes. The subtitle is Biblical Reflections to Help You Gasp God's Purpose in Your Suffering.

And the two women who wrote this book out of their own personal journey with pain,

physical pain, and other kinds of suffering, are here with me in the studio today.

And I'm really thankful for our listeners to hear their story and hear how God's grace has been so real to them and is real to

them in their journey. So Kristen Wetherill and Sarah Walton, co-authors of Hope When It Hurts,

thank you for writing this book. Thank you for joining us here in the studio today to talk about

this journey.

We're very pleased to be here. Thank you. And this is the kind of book I guess you hope never to have to write. Because you've written it out of pain. In fact, a friend of mine, and she may be a friend of yours also, Lori Ferguson, Wilbert. I saw a post that she did about this book, and she talks about how you read different books on suffering, but it's somebody who's already been through it, and they look back on it and say, you know, they have a retrospective view.

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