Regardless of what it is, sometimes the hardest part of carrying a heavy burden is just not seeing a reason for it.

Weirdly enough, there's usually some sort of comfort in purpose, right?

Even if it's not a purpose we'd choose.

But what if there is a purpose in your pain?

What if it's not designed to destroy you,

but to prepare you? Are you intrigued? I'm Eve Steipps, and this is the Grace Lace podcast. Today,

my co-host, Ruth Joe Simons, and I are talking about the truth that God wastes nothing.

And we're so glad you're here with us.

As we've already touched on in this season, so much of our energy on any given day is spent on trying to avoid pain. I mean, I'm kind of avoiding this particular episode already.

So welcome to the Grace Lace podcast. I mean, the reality is like,

who really wants to talk about pain or how hard it is to have a good attitude about going through

seasons that you would rather not deal with all together? So, Eve, you want to kick us off today?

I mean, we try to be honest here and we try to share with you all because the reality is

all these topics always start with us, Eve and I, recognizing that these are real parts of our story where we have to apply the truth of God's

word.

So. Yeah. So who doesn't want to talk about pain, grief, and loss, you know?

But yeah, when we were talking through this topic, I think the season that comes to mind for me of something that

just felt like it would destroy me is 2020, which probably for a lot of us. It felt like that

season was going to take it out, take us out, right? It was hard on lots of levels. I, beginning of

2020, was really pregnant with twins.

They were born in April. But in the end of March, my dad had an accident and unexpectedly passed away.

And it was right on the bridge of all of the COVID restrictions coming down.

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