Page 194: Jenn Pooler: A Life-Changing Accident and Surrendering Control to God
The Unfolding
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Jenn Pooler had always tried to play by the rules. Like many of us, she believed if she did all the right things then God would protect her from bad things. For Jenn, it was about trying to be in control. When she was 17, she was in a bus accident that altered her life forever and left her angry. Why would God allow this bad thing to happen? She never imagined God could take something bad and use it to change her life for good.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 194 of the unfolding is the story of Jen Pooleur. |
| 0:04.8 | I lost a lot of trust in the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I lost a lot of trust in people. |
| 0:09.1 | And probably if I'm honest, some trust in God. |
| 0:11.4 | And so my anger was like, I have to even more so control everything. |
| 0:15.0 | I have to even more so rely on myself because I can't trust anything that I used to know. |
| 0:20.6 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:23.9 | Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:32.5 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:36.5 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. Jen Poolooler had always tried to play by the rules. |
| 0:41.1 | If she did what she was supposed to do, if she checked all the boxes, then life should be good, right? |
| 0:46.9 | God would surely bless her and protect her from bad things. It's a line of reasoning that we |
| 0:51.9 | often believe without even realizing it. |
| 0:54.6 | But when Jen was 17, an accident changed her life. |
| 0:58.2 | It set up a collision between her attempts at controlling life, and really it was controlling |
| 1:03.1 | God through her good behavior, and the reality that sometimes God allows difficult things |
| 1:08.2 | in our lives. |
| 1:09.2 | Jen had worked so hard to do things right. |
| 1:12.2 | And now everything seemed to have gone wrong. |
| 1:16.4 | I grew up in a Christian home. |
| 1:18.6 | I was baptized at age three. |
| 1:20.6 | I thought I had this faith thing like figured out. |
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