As Molly Velt's faith has gotten stronger, she's learned this about God.

God hasn't put a smooth path in front of us. His promise isn't that life is going to be easy,

but he does promise that no matter what, and I feel very convicted and strong about this,

no matter what the road has in front of us, he will

be there.

It's Monday, June 4th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Tragedy.

We experience it collectively as a nation when disaster strikes.

And you experience it in your own life, where there aren't any TV cameras or commentators, just pain.

Today's guest will help you learn how to live through tragedy for God's glory. She's going to talk with Nancy and our friend Holly Ellif.

Let's join the conversation.

Holly, you've been in ministry for a number of years, and both of us have ministered to a lot of women,

and we're reading a lot of the emails and both of us have ministered to a lot of women, and we're reading

a lot of the emails that come in from our listeners to revive our hearts. And you know, as well as I do,

that there is a lot of heartache out there. A lot of hurting people, a lot of just unexplainably

difficult circumstances that make you wonder, what was God thinking? What did he

have in mind? How do I bear up through this? And that's just part of life. It really is. And we hear

from so many women in so many different circumstances who are saying, how do I understand what God is about

at this moment? And how do I survive this? How do I endure this? And I read some of those letters.

I talk with some of those women when I'm in conferences and some of them having experienced things

that I have not experienced. And I think, what do you say? How do you minister grace

to someone who is really, really hurting? And how do we make sense of things that this side

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