S5 Ep143: Relentless Faith in a Relentless God with Michele Cushatt
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today on the CTL podcast, we get to listen in on a conversation between MacKenzie and author and speaker Michele Cushatt. Michele is a wife and mother of 6 who has been through the difficulties of single parenting, cancer surgeries, and other kinds of loss. MacKenzie and Michele talk about her new book, Relentless: The Unshakeable Presence of a God Who Never Leave, focussing on keeping our faith amidst life's hardest trials.
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- Michele talks a little about how she came to write this book through her own experience of prolonged trials
- The difficulty of holding onto faith when things don't make any sense
- Valuing the process of grappling with your doubts and taking them to God
- The importance of keeping sight of the ways God has been faithful to you in the past to help you get through the hard things in the future
- Michele's strategy for setting up "altar stones" of remembrance
- Why Michele included so much about her father in her own story
- Holding the faith amidst the realization that other believers are probably going to wound us at times
- Having been through our own difficulties help us have grace for other people who are hurting
- Recognizing that we are going to fail, but God will be faithful through it all
- Our deep fear of being aloneness and what it means for our relationship with God
- The importance of creating connections with people who will walk with us through the hard times
- Creating space for others to struggle with their faith by sharing your own vulnerabilities
- Michele's typical daily routine
Michele: enjoying drawing and writing with her new markers in her own style of gratitude journal
MacKenzie: watching Hallmark movies and enjoying decorating her house for Christmas early
Resources Mentioned-Relentless by Michele Cushatt
Soul-Keeping by John Ortberg
Find Michele-You can find Michele at michellecushatt.com, and listen to her podcast, This Undone Life Together. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely. You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!
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| 0:00.0 | I really do believe at the core of the human experience, our greatest fear is to be alone. I really believe that this is, I mean, even death is that fear of aloneness. So I really think at heart, our greatest fear is of being alone. And we can endure anything as long as we know we don't have to do it alone. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:40.2 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. |
| 0:47.9 | If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com. Visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com |
| 0:54.6 | slash cultivating the lovely or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my |
| 0:58.9 | favorite places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for |
| 1:03.8 | joining me today. Ladies, this episode could not have come at a better time for me. I got to interview Michelle |
| 1:12.1 | Cushat about her brand new book, Relentless, the unshakable presence of a God who never |
| 1:18.5 | leaves. Now, you probably have been following and knowing that my family has been going through |
| 1:24.3 | a lot for a long time and things just got a whole lot more intense. |
| 1:30.3 | If you don't know, you can follow me over on Instagram to get a little bit better idea. |
| 1:34.6 | And we'll be talking about it more on the podcast next week. |
| 1:38.1 | But you guys, this interview with Michelle was just so personal and such a good reminder to me of how we can be actively looking for |
| 1:47.5 | God even when it feels like he's nowhere to be found and how we can be setting those stones of |
| 1:54.1 | remembrance even when we aren't going through something difficult so that when the hard times |
| 1:58.6 | come we can remember the things that he's done |
| 2:01.1 | in our lives and so much more. It was just such a powerful episode for me, especially on the heels |
| 2:07.0 | of a couple of weeks ago getting to interview Gary Thomas. I felt like this was the perfect |
| 2:11.5 | follow-up to that interview. And I mentioned a couple of times in the interview that it was last week |
| 2:16.2 | that I interviewed Gary Thomas, |
| 2:17.6 | which isn't actually correct. That was two weeks ago, so you'll have to forgive me. But nonetheless, |
| 2:22.2 | I really think that this is a good follow up to that episode because it's kind of that next step |
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