Susie Larson: "Why Is Your Son Still Alive?" | Unfolding Short Stories
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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"Why Is Your Son Still Alive?"
Susie Larson knows what it feels like to walk through a season where God seems distant and every day feels fragile. Between high-risk pregnancies, neurological symptoms, and two children fighting for breath, she cried out for God to speak and heard nothing. But then a nurse asked a question that revealed a miracle Susie never expected. This powerful story invites you to rest, be still, and remember that God is rarely absent, even when He seems quiet.
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:06.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:09.7 | In Romans chapter 4, it's talking about Abraham's faith, and it says that he did not waver |
| 0:15.4 | through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but he was strengthened in faith and gave glory to God. |
| 0:22.3 | You know, that kind of faith isn't formed in easy seasons. It's shaped through circumstances |
| 0:28.3 | that test us. On Friday, we heard Johnny Eric Santata share how God met her in extreme hardship. |
| 0:36.9 | She noted that God brought about his glory by the things that she hated. |
| 0:42.3 | Well, today, Susie Larson brings us a story from her life. |
| 0:46.3 | There was a season when it felt like God was silent, |
| 0:49.3 | and everything around her seemed fragile. |
| 0:52.3 | But there was a major aha moment in the midst of this season. |
| 0:56.1 | A nurse asked her a question that she never forgot. |
| 1:01.4 | Have you ever been in a season where it felt like God lost your address? |
| 1:06.9 | Have you ever been in such a season where God intervened in a way that reminded you that |
| 1:12.9 | he delights in every detail of your life? |
| 1:16.1 | That's what happened to me. |
| 1:18.0 | It was a time when I was a young mom with three sons. |
| 1:21.5 | I had high-risk pregnancies with second and third sons, months on bed rest. |
| 1:26.8 | Our middle son, when he was about 18 months old, |
| 1:29.7 | had respiratory troubles and ended up in the hospital. And there was a point where we wonder |
| 1:34.9 | if we get to take him home. His chest caved in with every breath. It looked like his ribs would |
| 1:39.9 | break with every breath, and he weezed all the way down to his toes. Nothing they could do was helping |
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