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The Unfolding

Page 74: Kelly Denham

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How do you trust God as you watch your child suffer and your prayers seem to go unanswered? That was the unwelcome journey of Kelly Denham's life. Kelly's son T.J. experienced a brain injury when a mistake was made during heart surgery. For years, T.J. suffered and Kelly struggled to help, cope, and hang onto her faith.

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Page 74 of the unfolding is the story of Kelly Denham.

0:04.2

There would be days.

0:05.1

I would just be like crying.

0:07.0

I just kept saying, I am so sorry this happened to you.

0:09.4

I am so sorry this happened to you.

0:11.2

And he signed to me, Mom, you have to trust and have faith.

0:15.8

God's story has been unfolding.

0:19.0

Since the beginning of time.

0:22.1

He invites you to be a part of it.

0:28.5

Another page in the unfolding.

0:42.1

Hi, this is Meredith Foster.

0:48.2

As a believer in Jesus, one of the things we often struggle to reconcile is this question of,

0:52.2

if God is good and he loves us, why does he allow suffering?

0:56.4

That's hard to grapple with in the hypothetical, but for those who are grappling with it in their own personal experience, it can be faith crushing. How do you trust God

1:03.6

as you watch your child suffer and your prayers seem to go unanswered? That was the unwelcome

1:10.0

journey of Kelly Denham's life. Just a word of caution,

1:13.5

this is a hard story. So especially if your kids like to listen to the unfolding, you might want to

1:19.0

preview this episode before they hear it. We had five children with four girls and our youngest was a boy.

1:25.4

His name is Travis. My husband's name is Travis, so we called him

1:28.1

TJ. He was a very easy kid to raise and he was kind and responsible and smart and just a

1:37.8

lovely kid. When he was 16 years old, he kept saying, Mom, my tailbone's bothering me. My

1:43.5

tailbones bother me. And I kept saying,

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