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The Unfolding

Page 37: Michele Cushatt

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michele Cushatt spent her life checking boxes, doing what good Christian girls do.Then one thing after another went horribly wrong and she was left wondering if God was real, and if He cared at all about her suffering. How do you hold onto faith when it seems like God Himself is gone?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Page 37 of the unfolding is the story of Michelle Kashat.

0:04.2

It's been 25 years of non-stop, crisis, suffering, pain.

0:09.3

Basically, I got to a place where I lost a will to live.

0:11.8

I had no fight left.

0:13.7

God's story has been unfolding.

0:17.0

Since the beginning of time.

0:20.1

He invites you to be a part of it.

0:26.4

Another page in the unfolding.

0:41.0

If I do everything by the book, will God bless me?

0:42.8

What happens when things go wrong?

0:44.3

Does that mean God is angry?

0:49.3

Michelle Kashat spent her life checking boxes, doing what good Christian girls do.

0:52.2

And she believed that was why God loved her.

0:57.2

She wouldn't say that, of course, but then one thing after another went horribly wrong,

1:00.5

leaving her struggling with questions like, is God real?

1:01.8

Does he care about me?

1:05.7

How do you hold on to faith when it feels like faith is gone?

1:10.3

Tell me a little bit about your growing up years and what your faith was like then.

1:11.0

My parents grew up in homes where faith was not a regular part of their childhood.

1:16.4

So my mom's family would take the kids to church maybe twice a year for Easter and Christmas.

1:22.1

My dad's family, his stepmom, was an organist at a local church.

1:27.5

And so he would sometimes go to church with her when she played the organ.

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