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Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith

[JESUS LISTENS MONTHLY SERIES] God, Help Us Hold Both Sorrow and Hope: Tanner Olson

Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith

Jesus Calling

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Author and poet Tanner Olson joins us to share his family’s journey through unexplained infertility and the heartache it brought. Out of that season of grief came unexpected joy—the gift of adoption and the arrival of his son. Tanner reflects on the role of prayer in holding both sorrow and hope, and the childlike wonder he’s learning from his little boy.

 

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YouTube: @tannerJolson
Facebook: @writtentospeak

Instagram: @writtentospeak

 

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0:00.0

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0:01.6

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0:04.7

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0:09.1

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0:09.7

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0:14.4

With honesty, insight, and encouragement, Torin tackles the issues you're facing every day

0:19.0

and helps you rise above the noise.

0:21.2

If you're ready for a fresh perspective on your faith, tune in to the High Note podcast with Torn Wells.

0:26.4

Welcome to the High Note.

0:27.4

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0:32.6

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0:35.6

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0:52.6

Hi, welcome to Jesus Listen Stories of Prayer.

0:56.5

I'm Susie McIntyre Eaton, and I want to welcome you to the podcast today,

1:01.1

where we're going to speak to author, poet, Tanner Olson.

1:05.6

He and his wife, Sarah, have a wonderful story, first of infertility,

1:17.4

and then out of those ashes came complete joy and hope in adoption.

1:23.3

Hey, Tanner, it's really good to talk to you today. Now, where are you? Where do you live?

1:47.1

Nashville, Tennessee. Every summer, we go to Northern Michigan for my wife's job. So we leave Nashville for three months. So we have some people staying in our house this summer. So we're packing everything up and heading out in a couple of days. So it's a lot, a lot's going on here. We have our moments of awesome here on this earth. You had an awesome morning. But then there are hard times.

1:51.7

You're going to have to get that stuff cleaned out of your house and put away, you know,

1:57.0

for three months and moved to Michigan. And that's going to be hard. But in the midst of it, you've got a God that's walking with you. Yeah. So back in 2021, my wife and I, we were

2:03.7

diagnosed with unexplained infertility. And as you can imagine, that's when a lot of grief

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