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The Unfolding

Page 59: Kati Pessin

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you or someone you love has struggled with anxiety or depression, you know how crippling that can be. For Kati Pessin, depression was something she first grappled with as a middle schooler and it's been a part of her life since. The struggle has taken her to the lowest moments of her life, but it's also been a place where God has revealed her need for him and his love for her in a very powerful way.

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Page 59 of the unfolding is the story of Katie Pesson.

0:04.4

There are all these feelings of I am broken, I am not enough, there's something really just wrong with me.

0:10.7

All that man just came back in a flash.

0:14.9

God's story has been unfolding.

0:18.2

Since the beginning of time.

0:23.6

He invites you to be a part of it. Another page in the unfolding. Hi, I'm Meredith Foster. If you are somebody you love has struggled with anxiety or depression,

0:46.9

you know how crippling that can be. For Katie Pesson, depression was something she first

0:51.8

grappled with as a middle schooler, and it's been a part of her life ever since.

0:56.2

The struggle has taken her to the lowest moments of her life, but it's also been a place where God has revealed her need for him and his love for her in a very powerful way.

1:08.8

So I grew up in the church. My parents were really active in my home church as a child.

1:12.7

My mom sang on the worship team. My dad was an elder. We were your happy Christian family.

1:17.9

When I was in junior high, though, they divorced. And I found out that it was because my dad had

1:23.6

been having several affairs over the course of their marriage. So that in itself, of course,

1:28.2

was kind of world altering. How did that affect you on a day-to-day basis? You know, I think at the time

1:35.8

I underestimated the effect that had on me because I had had friends whose parents had divorced

1:40.2

when they were three and four. And I thought, wow, like how lucky I am that my parents stayed

1:44.9

married so long. And I did not understand what it did to my heart until much later in life.

1:49.8

But what it did was force me as a kid to decide about my faith because both of my parents

1:54.8

stopped attending my church after that happened. And so as a 10, 11 year old, I had to get rides

2:00.6

to church if I wanted to go.

2:02.3

Wow. So you had to be proactive and, right. And did you? Yeah. And so I had, we had a family

2:07.8

friend who took me and my brothers to church every single Sunday. So an older and a younger brother,

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