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The Unfolding

Page 53: Suzanne Happs

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Why does God lead us into hard valleys? Suzanne Happs had already been through a really tough season of life, and it seemed that God had led her to that place. Just as she got her footing, they received devastating news – their son had major health challenges and they had no health insurance. It's a story about learning to trust that God will make a way when there seems to be no way.

Transcript

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Page 53 of the unfolding is the story of Suzanne Haps.

0:04.5

I went through a whole lot of faith struggle because I knew that God had sent me to Wisconsin

0:08.8

and I thought, if you sent me here, then why am I in this valley?

0:12.4

And frankly, when we heard about Riley's issue, I thought, here we go again.

0:16.3

We're going through the valley.

0:18.1

God's story has been unfolding.

0:23.6

Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it.

0:26.6

Another page in the unfolding. holding.

0:44.5

Hi, this is Meredith Foster.

0:49.2

Why would God intentionally send you to a place of hardship?

0:56.3

Suzanne Haps had already been through a really tough season in life, and as far as she could tell, God had led her to that place. And he'd used it to help her learn to trust him, which turned out to be exactly

1:02.0

what she would need as her family faced a challenge so big, only God could meet it. So you had just

1:08.4

come through a really difficult season in your life. That is absolutely correct.

1:13.8

We made a move from South Dakota to Wisconsin. It was an inter-network move. So I went for a job,

1:23.2

but my husband left his job and went to Wisconsin. But it was a bad part of the economy and it took him a year and a half to find a job.

1:33.3

So we went through a year and a half of him not having a job.

1:36.3

We still had a house in South Dakota that we couldn't sell because it was part of that whole, the housing market crash thing.

1:43.3

My children were doing fairly well but

1:47.3

then one of them like one of the school counselors called and said um so yeah we did a suicidal just kind

1:53.3

of checklist thing and your son checked yes to all of them and so we were going through all of this

1:59.7

turmoil in in these. And we had just come on the other

2:05.7

side of that. Everything was good. My husband had a great job. We had gone through family

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