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Occupying Suffering Spaces :: Cari Trotter [Ep 407] RWYB Series Wk 6

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Parenting, Leisure, Education

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What is a place you’d rather not go? One that sounds nearly unbearable. The DMV? The school pick-up line?  What about going into a serious medical diagnosis or a financial crisis?  Following Jesus is no safeguard against difficulty in life. God may give you an assignment that feels impossible and overwhelming. That is where my guest this week, mom and author/speaker Cari Trotter, found herself in early 2021. 

But what Cari also found in those hellish months following a difficult diagnosis echoed what concentration camp survivor Victor Frankl says, “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”  Cari’s life shifted in an instant and her identity, health, and expectations of the future shifted too. But she found a solid rock to anchor to in her relationship with God - wherever he was leading her. However dark or lonely the path she was never alone. Her meaning and purpose were not gone because the Lord was her strength and her song. She is right where she belongs. 

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.3

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:15.4

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:21.4

And in this episode, number 407, I'm welcoming back to the show, my friend, Carrie Trotter.

0:28.5

You know, if you can get to the place where like, okay, God, you know, then you realize you are my hope and stay.

0:35.0

You know, that gets technicolor, that gets real.

0:37.6

It's like, I am not my hope and stay.

0:40.2

My previous identity with health is not my hope and stay.

0:44.8

My expectations on the future, those are not my hope and stay.

0:48.1

And so if you are my hope and stay, I'm with you for always.

0:52.6

I don't want to eject from you.

0:54.6

So this is where you say you are with me.

0:58.4

This is the last episode in our six week series that we've been doing to go along with my new book,

1:05.0

right where you belong.

1:06.8

And today's episode is important to me because in writing this book on identifying and occupying

1:12.5

your God-given spaces, I didn't want it to just be this concept of shiny spaces and platform

1:20.5

but more embracing our part in the spaces we've been given to occupy and sometimes those spaces

1:28.7

feel more like prisons or they're unwanted or they are waiting spaces.

1:33.3

And so Carrie and I are going to talk about that today.

1:36.5

Carrie is an author speaker, amazing woman.

1:40.0

And she's a mom to three.

1:41.6

We have walked in real life community together and she does amazing ministry online.

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