After experiencing a terrible loss, Elizabeth Mitchell took her raw emotions to God.

Will I ever be able to smile again?

You know, I woke up that morning.

I thought, I will never know joy again, you know.

Of course, you can't bring anything good out of this much pain.

I think I said that out loud to the Lord.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast for January 15th, 2024. I'm Dana Gresh. Our host is the co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story, Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

As I think about the conversation we're about to hear, the words of a song by Babby Mason and Eddie Carswell come to mind.

Here's what it says in part.

All things work for our good, though sometimes we don't see how they could.

Our father knows what's best for ours. ways are not our own so when your pathway grows dim and you just don't see him remember you're never alone.

And it goes on from there.

Well, our guest today had moments where her pathway was so dim

that she could not see God's hand in what she was going through, at all.

Dana sat down with Elizabeth Mitchell to hear her story.

It's one she tells in her book, Journey for the Heart, and the subtitle, something that all of us

can relate to needing, hope when life is unfair. Let's start by getting to know Elizabeth

a little. Here's Dana.

Thank you. Let's start by getting to know Elizabeth a little. Here's Dana. Elizabeth, tell us about when you encountered Jesus, when you came to know him as your Lord and Savior.

I was a young girl on the island of Jamaica. We had just moved to a new church. And for the first time,

in a little Sunday school class, in a little room in this precious church called Grace

missionary alliance, the gospel was presented, and I, for the first time, realized that Jesus had not just died for the sins of the world, that he had died for my sins.

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