Mourning and Dancing Week 2 with Vaneetha Risner
She Reads Truth Podcast
She Reads Truth
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Raechel and Amanda welcome Vaneetha Risner back to the podcast to close out our Mourning and Dancing series. Reflecting on their own stories of grief, they remind one another that lament is a beautiful act of trust in the safe presence of our God.
Open your Bibles with us this week! This episode corresponds to Week 2 of She Reads Truth’s Mourning and Dancing reading plan. You can read with the She Reads Truth community on our site, in our app, or with our Mourning and Dancing printed or digital Daily Reading Guide.
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This Was Never the Plan: Walking with God through the Heartache of Divorce by Vaneetha Risner
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the She Reads Truth podcast. She reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day. |
| 0:12.2 | Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week. I'm your host, Rachel Myers. |
| 0:19.2 | And I'm your other host, Amanda Bible Williams. |
| 0:21.7 | Friends, this is our second and final week in our morning and dancing series. We are so loving, |
| 0:29.5 | revisiting this community favorite that we have not been in in too many years just to learn how |
| 0:36.9 | to hold the tension of the realities of human life and of lament |
| 0:40.9 | and joy and suffering all the things. And it is, scripture doesn't hold back. Scripture includes |
| 0:46.9 | all of it. And so we're so thankful to walk through this with you all together. This week we're |
| 0:51.2 | joined by our friend Vanitha Ryzener. Vanitha has authored several books. |
| 0:55.0 | She has a devotional called Watching for the Morning that is beautiful. |
| 0:58.6 | And she has a recently released book called This Was Never the Plan. |
| 1:03.3 | Vanitha shares a lot of her story in this episode, and it was a privilege to walk through |
| 1:08.8 | these scriptures with her. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it's going to bless you. |
| 1:11.1 | Let's get right to it. |
| 1:14.4 | Vanitha, welcome back to the She Read Truth podcast. |
| 1:17.3 | It's been too long. |
| 1:18.7 | I know. |
| 1:19.8 | I am so happy to be here. |
| 1:21.5 | It's so good to have you back on the podcast. |
| 1:23.9 | And I've really been looking forward to you joining us for this plan for this |
| 1:30.7 | series with our community, morning and dancing. You have a little bit of practice, my friend, |
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