You're listening to the God Center Mom podcast with me, Heather McFadden.

And today is an encore episode with Natasha Mezzler.

She's sharing how pain can have a new future.

Yeah, redemption is kind of like a rebirth.

It's not taking away what it was in the past, but it's giving a new future to it.

And so that was just life changing for me to realize that I can't ever change the fact.

Like all the years that I've spent in infertility, even if I had a had a child next year, it's

not going to take away the pain of the years that I've had.

But at the same time, I can give all of that pain over to God and His promises that He

will do something with it that is not going to be wasted years or wasted time.

Pain is inevitable.

I'm recording this the day after we just had a horrible situation in Dallas where a lot of pain

is surfacing, a lot of hurts, a lot of anger, a lot of hatred, a lot of sadness.

And we can't I can't go back and make it better, but I can pray for redemption in all of

those painful hurt places.

I can pray for a new future for that pain.

And that's why I really wanted to re-release this episode.

I feel like Natasha had a lot of great wisdom in regards to the topic of infertility and

the topic of depression and the topic of how God knows pain.

And it's he grieves, just like we grieve, but he promises to bring life out of death.

He promises to give that past and that present and new future.

And there's hope when we go to God with any hard thing that we're going through right

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