Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart Audio Podcast.

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so Craig you and i

were both lovers of story of song art and when we think about those great stories we love

There's a lot of tragedy in those or some of the best songs have a lot of heart and hurt mixed into the lyrics and I've thought we ought to talk about now, to me something that really is important is in terms of story, what do you do when you find yourself on a personal level personal level, not liking the part of the story that you're in.

On a personal note, knowing what you've gone through and are going through now,

hospital stays, just life has been interrupted as you know it.

I'd love to just talk to you about what do you do when you find yourself in those places where you go,

wait, this isn't the way I want the story to go in my life.

Stop.

Yeah, yeah.

You know what, I'm just so not alone in this. There are my guess is almost everyone listening.

Could look at the story they're living and wish that it were different and what do you do with that?

How do you live in a story that it's hard, that's hard to live in?

Whether that's economics or whether that's

economics or whether that's relationship or whether that's health or any number of other

difficulties. Yeah, yeah me, I mean, the most immediate story was just a couple of months ago,

my oncologist telling me after taking blood and bone marrow biopsy and kind of checking on the status of my cancer,

he said to Lori and I, well that was a short remission and he informed me that I've relapsed my cancer is back and its predatory nature is kind of unfolding and I need to begin treatment again and

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