Teachback Tuesday-Lessons from an Unexpected Diagnosis

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season. This week's episode, "Lessons from an Unexpected Diagnosis," struck a chord with many listeners last year, and it's still being downloaded as one of the top ten episodes from 2022. Receiving an unexpected diagnosis is like being drafted into a club that you never wanted to join. We make our plans and go on with our lives, never really expecting any dramatic changes. This is human nature, but we often imagine that our lives will be mostly smooth sailing. Proverbs 27:1 tells us otherwise: "Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Here's a quote that gives us a dose of reality: "Smooth seas do not make skilled sailors."--Anonymous If you've received a diagnosis that has you reeling, you will appreciate listening to someone who gets it. Share this episode with anyone going through the shock of an unexpected diagnosis. Valerie offers insights that are both helpful and hopeful. Shop the "Mall of Keep the Heart" Rough Patches: Temporary Marital Tensions by Francie Taylor Minerals for the Mind-A Study of Romans 12 by Kathy Ashley Encouragement for Motherhood--A 30-Day Devotional by Charity Berkey & Team Rate and Review the Show HERE Keep the Heart on Instagram Keep the Heart on Facebook Francie on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.
0:05.4	In April of 2017, I vividly remember being on my way to the ladies' vacation in Evansville, Indiana, hosted by Faith Music Radio.
0:14.6	I was going to teach at their ladies' conference.
0:17.2	I received a call halfway to the conference.
0:19.5	I was sitting at the connecting city in the airport
0:21.6	when my husband called and said, honey, are you sitting down? Oh, those are the words that give us
0:26.8	the shivers, right? And that's when he told me that he had been diagnosed with two forms of cancer,
0:33.0	multiple myeloma, which is bone cancer, and renal cell carcinoma, which is kidney cancer.
0:39.2	Many of you know our story, and you know that the Lord chose to take Norman home to be with
0:43.6	him in September of that same year. So five short months after the diagnosis, Norman was no longer
0:49.9	on this side of heaven. Fast forward to April of 2021, and I receive a similar phone call from my dear
0:57.0	friend Valerie Clear, where she shared with me that she was now diagnosed with cancer. That started a year
1:03.9	of very many unknowns for her and Pastor Clear, and she shares her story on this episode. Thousands of people downloaded this last year. We pray it'll be a
1:14.5	help to use well. Let's listen again. It was April of 2021 when I got a call from a dear friend and I was looking
1:22.7	so forward to sitting down in a chair and having a good catching up time, that's what I thought the call was for.
1:29.4	I was very, very surprised when my friend said to me, Francie, I was calling to let you know
1:34.5	that I've been diagnosed with cancer. You know, there are some rough days in life, and then there
1:40.2	are some off-script seasons when things are very different than what we had planned. In fact,
1:46.8	my guest today, sister friend Valerie Clear, said this, it's not just off-script. It's like life has
1:53.0	become a whole new library and you're browsing in the aisle you had never imagined. I believe that
1:58.8	this episode, lessons from an unexpected diagnosis will be so
2:03.4	helpful to people who have either received a diagnosis that was very unexpected or those who
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