Even though the doctors measure Colleen's remaining days in weeks or months,

she says she can still be at peace.

I can be still in my soul because God is good and he's with me

and he's designing these things for pure joy.

Psalm 16 talks about that, eternal pleasures at your right hand. This is the Revive Our

Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your

Story. For December 14th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh. If I were to ask you, when you've grown the most in your life, spiritually speaking, how

would you respond? When have you learned the most important lessons from the Lord? Was it when

you were going through times of smooth sailing? Or was it when you were in

turbulent, stormy waters? I think most of us can point to moments of difficulty and trials.

And we can say with a psalmist in Psalm 119, before I was afflicted, I went astray. But now I keep

your word. He said, it is good for me that I was afflicted,

that I might learn your statutes. So true. Affliction, difficulty, times when the roads long and hard,

those are the times when we often end up saying we grew the most.

I know that's been true for Robert and me over the past couple of years.

We would not have chosen to have cancer in our story, but God chose it.

And those have been some of the sweetest growing times in our marriage and in my relationship

with the Lord as well.

So I look back and I thank him for those times,

for those hardships. And I think about another woman that we heard from yesterday whose life

illustrates this beautifully. Her name is Colleen Chow. We heard yesterday about some of the

ways that God has been stretching her in her journey through stage four cancer, especially as it relates

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