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The Unfolding

Page 105: Natalie Twedell

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Natalie Twedell struggled with fear while her husband Drew was deployed to Iraq. When he passed away while training to become a Navy Seal, her worst fears were confirmed. Anxiety became her constant companion. She referred to herself as a "control freak" who was waiting for the next bad thing to happen. But that way of life is exhausting, and God was calling her to trust him. As a woman overcome with fear, she couldn't imagine a life of courage or rest.

Transcript

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Page 105 of the unfolding is the story of Natalie Twaddell.

0:04.7

The enemy planted a little lie.

0:06.8

I really believed that God had missed something, and I couldn't trust him with my boys.

0:12.7

Almost like I was holding my breath waiting for the next thing to happen, and I knew he would be with me, but it was like, this is what happens.

0:18.9

I can't trust him with my loved one.

0:21.3

God's story has been unfolding.

0:24.6

Since the beginning of time.

0:27.7

He invites you to be a part of it.

0:34.0

Another page in the unfolding.

0:46.2

Yeah. Another page in the unfolding. Hey, this is Meredith Foster.

0:48.5

That's just who I am.

0:50.4

Have you ever said that?

0:51.5

Usually it comes after we've acknowledged something about ourselves that maybe we don't like,

0:56.3

but it seems impossible to change.

0:58.7

For Natalie Twaddell, it was being fearful, anxious.

1:01.7

I'm just a control freak, she would say.

1:03.7

She felt justified in that, and no one would argue her right to be afraid.

1:08.0

She had walked through a devastating loss, and that had cemented the

1:12.2

belief that the next bad thing is just waiting to happen. But living that way is exhausting.

1:17.9

She wanted to change, but she felt no hope because that's just who she was.

1:23.8

I had met Drew, and I had known the Lord about two years.

1:29.7

And we met and got married pretty young, which I look now, and I think it was the Lord's grace in giving us the time that we had together.

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