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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Taylor Harris: Peace for Our Anxious Selves

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves to get VERY BOSSY when it comes to our fears. “Don’t worry, be happy!” Just be brave! But maybe ‘being brave’ doesn’t mean ignoring our fears but living alongside them. After all, we live in a world that offers us few guarantees, don’t we?  Writer Taylor Harris has dealt with severe anxiety since she was a child. But when she became a mom, she had to learn to hold her fears alongside her love, especially when her son has an unsolvable illness. In this conversation, Kate and Taylor discuss: Balancing fear with love  What it means to be brave in a world that is so unsafe (and how to parent kids you can’t protect from everything) How to live in the uncertainty of a non-diagnosis How to make sense of God and faith without guarantees that things will work out   This conversation will give you courage to hold both your faith and fear, hope and disappointment, especially when we don’t have problems with simple solutions. CW: a sick child without a diagnosis *** Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to our weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy, today. Introducing, GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. Join us for Lent. Receive a free lenten reflection guide, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Don't worry, be happy.

0:02.1

Remember, do not fear,

0:03.8

it's the most repeated phrase in the Bible.

0:06.1

Just trust God.

0:09.0

Those lovely little sayings sound good, don't they?

0:12.6

Like the folksy art we pick up in the Cracker Barrel gift shop.

0:16.0

Also, try explaining that place to Canadians.

0:18.4

It has a porch?

0:19.4

No, it's a store?

0:20.8

No, it's a restaurant?

0:22.0

Yes, people order the meatloaf.

0:24.3

As someone who seems to draw this short stick

0:26.3

on anything from a rare diagnosis

0:28.3

to following through the bureaucratic wormholes

0:30.7

in every customs line,

0:32.5

I have never quite understood what people meant

0:34.9

when they say, don't worry.

0:38.8

Sorry.

0:39.9

What if the worst possible thing keeps happening?

0:44.1

Isn't my worry a bit warranted?

0:48.1

This is everything happens, and I'm Kate Boehler.

0:51.8

You're very unlucky host,

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