Nothing Went as Planned, Yet She Thrives | Alaina Mayes | Ep. 104
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
4.5 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
You're going to love my friend Alaina.
She is smart, beautiful and a great mother of three. But more than all that, she is resilient because she is anchored in a God who has and is redeeming her and her story.
Most might have been tempted to title this episode by the things that the world might say marks and even scars Alaina's life - infertility, infidelity, divorce, single mother of three, working mom.
But when you place your identity in a source outside yourself and your circumstances, those things lose their power to make you anything - for better or worse. These things that have happened to her have not defined her. They have not made her who she is, but rather have been the catalyst for her to lean harder into her savior.
And her attitude is not just a show - it's a choice she's made. Her commitment to her girls is not an obligation, it's the delight of her life. Her resilience is not just a show for Instagram, it's something she is modeling in her real life.
Nothing went as planned, yet she thrives.
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to Kindled Podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm your host, Haley Williams, and this is the show where we talk about truth and grace boldly. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:40.1 | Well, hello, and welcome to Kendall. This is episode 103. And today I'm going to be chatting with |
| 0:46.5 | my friend Elena Mays. Elena is the mom of three little girls, and we're going to be talking |
| 0:53.7 | about a situation in her life where |
| 0:56.2 | her marriage actually fell apart about five years ago and just how God has brought her through |
| 1:04.1 | a lot of loss and a lot of pain and a lot of difficulty. And it's kind of a prodigal son or |
| 1:10.7 | prodigal daughter story for Elena. |
| 1:13.5 | And she talks about that in the episode. |
| 1:15.8 | Prepare yourself as well because I get a little emotional in this one. |
| 1:19.3 | It's just a really good conversation and hits me pretty close to home. |
| 1:24.6 | So you'll hear more of that a few minutes in. Okay, here's my conversation with |
| 1:30.7 | Elena. All right. So today on Kindle, I'm chatting with Elena Mays. Elena, welcome to Kendall. |
| 1:37.6 | Hey, thank you so much. So excited. Yeah, thanks for making time to be here with all your kids out of the house. It's a joy. It is, |
| 1:47.2 | it's like quiet. And this is how it is whenever they're gone. It's so quiet. It's so nice, |
| 1:53.1 | isn't it? Mine are at preschool too. It's like you just want to sit in a room and stare at a blank |
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