She was driving the moving truck, her husband Troy napping in the passenger seat. Suddenly, Donna Van Lear felt paralyzed by fear. Troy woke up when he noticed they were barely moving. And he said, Donna, what are you doing? And I said, don't say anything. I'm trying to get across this bridge.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For April 1st in 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

I'm Dana Gresh. We're living in a day when fear is everywhere.

All we have to do is check the latest headlines,

and we might have to immediately pray to keep from panicking.

For some, fear can actually cause them to freeze up. Here's our host,

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth with more. Irrational, debilitating fear can sometimes crop up in some strange

places. But today we're going to hear how working through paralyzing fear became a metaphor for

Donna Van Lear, a picture of her

learning to trust God. Yesterday, Donna shared with Dana Gresh about how the pain of a traumatic

childhood experience affected Donna all the way into her adult years and about how her pain was

replaced with healing and joy in the Lord.

If you missed that program, be sure to go back and listen to it. You can do that on your

mobile device through the Revive Our Hearts app, or you can listen at our website,

revive our hearts.com. Following what Donna shared about yesterday, there was more pain to come in Donna's life.

This time, it was pain of a more emotional nature.

We hear about that today.

So even though God is writing a beautiful story in the life of each of his children,

sometimes that story includes chapters that we initially wish weren't there.

Let's listen as Donna continues her conversation with my co-host, Dana Gresh.

Let's fast forward to that 20-ish-year-old.

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