Jill Tracey: "He showed me on that day that His goodness is running after my daughter." | Unfolding Short Stories
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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"He showed me on that day that His goodness is running after my daughter."
Jill Tracey shares what happened as her daughter Alyssa was struggling with faith, and Jill was learning to let go of control. Through the song Goodness of God, God gave Jill a picture of hope she would carry for years. It was a reminder that even when she couldn't reach her daughter, God still could.
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| 0:00.0 | that his goodness is running after my daughter faster and better and stronger than I ever could, |
| 0:06.5 | and that he will never stop. |
| 0:09.9 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:14.7 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:18.6 | On this last Friday's episode of The Unfolding, page 280, Meredith talked with Jacob and Suzanne Haps about faith, doubt, and the impact that some of that was having on their family. |
| 0:32.4 | If someone you love is in that place of doubt, it's definitely an episode worth hearing. |
| 0:39.8 | Today, Jill Tracy shares a similar story with us. Her daughter Alyssa was struggling with her faith, and Jill was learning |
| 0:45.8 | that a parent can love and pray and still not control the outcome. But there was a moment in that |
| 0:52.3 | time when God met Jill with a picture of a future hope. |
| 0:56.9 | Not the whole story, just enough to remind her that his goodness was still running after her daughter. |
| 1:04.6 | I have no control over the choices my child makes. |
| 1:10.8 | That is one of the hardest sentences for a parent to say, over the choices my child makes. |
| 1:14.8 | That is one of the hardest sentences for a parent to say. |
| 1:21.0 | And even harder still to actually mean it, to know for sure that is the truth. |
| 1:22.9 | You have no control. |
| 1:27.2 | There is a certain time in life where, yeah, you control almost everything. |
| 1:34.0 | You control their bedtime, what they eat, what they see, what they watch, who they interact with. You control the school or the homeschool options for them. |
| 1:38.6 | You control everything, the church that you go to, the fact that they go to Sunday school and youth group, it's all on you |
| 1:45.5 | as a parent up to a certain point. Then you start to realize, my child is making his or her own |
| 1:54.0 | choices and I cannot make them for her. I cannot make them for him. And it's scary when you see them going down a road that you know is not what God has for them, that you know goes against everything you've prayed for them their entire lives. My daughter was in this place. About seven years ago is when when it started and it would continue for a few years |
| 2:20.9 | and as we started to realize she's in a dark place she may not continue as a Christian she may not |
| 2:30.8 | continue believing the way that we believe and finding hope and peace and love and truth. |
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