Unfolding Short Stories: " I was a scaredy cat..." Trudy Feyereisen loses her husband Johnny from brain cancer
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Trudy Feyereisen recounts her journey from being a 'scaredy cat' afraid of trials to becoming a witness of God's unwavering faithfulness through her husband's battle with brain cancer. Throughout this ordeal, she shares how her faith deepened, supported by scripture, prayer, and Christian community. Despite immense challenges, including her husband's personality changes and eventual passing, she found solace in God's presence and the body of Christ. Hear about her enduring faith in God's promises and the strength she drew from her favorite scripture and worship songs.
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. Unfolding short stories. Hi, this is Meredith. We know God doesn't want us to live in fear. |
| 0:14.0 | There are so many verses that remind us of that, but boy, it can be hard to live fearless. |
| 0:19.2 | And that was true for my friend Trudy Fire Eisen. She admits it. She was |
| 0:23.4 | afraid, afraid of facing something hard. She was living in fear that something might happen that would |
| 0:29.0 | cause her to struggle to believe God really is faithful. I was a scared cat of trials. I don't know |
| 0:37.1 | how to put that, but a scary cat is the best way to put it. |
| 0:39.4 | And my husband was getting ready to do a retreat, actually, and he was doing it on trials at that time. |
| 0:45.1 | It was in 2003. |
| 0:46.4 | And he had, you know, different points like, how does God use trials? |
| 0:49.2 | And one of the things he said was God uses trials and then making us more like Christ. And I said, well, Johnny, I go, |
| 0:55.7 | what if you don't care as much about becoming more like Christ? You just don't want him, period, |
| 0:59.9 | because you're scared. And that's where I was in my life. And even though I was a Christian, |
| 1:04.2 | I was just very scared person. I don't think you're alone in that. I think many of us spend |
| 1:09.3 | lots of our time like trying to eliminate any kind of struggle. Is that |
| 1:13.1 | kind of how you felt like you were? Oh, yes. Oh, very much so. Yes. So how long had you been married |
| 1:17.3 | when you first noticed something was going on? Well, we got married in 1999 and then he had headaches |
| 1:23.5 | pretty early on. So we got an MRI and then that's when they saw something. That was in |
| 1:28.3 | 2003, I believe. And then they just wanted to follow up and they kept following up until they did a |
| 1:34.7 | real specific one that looks into the chemical makeup. And that's when they said there's something in there. |
| 1:39.8 | Johnny said, well, what would you do? And the surgeon said, I would go in. I would just need to know what it is. And John goes, I agree. So we left. And my John was a very steady eddy, very faithful, very |
| 1:50.3 | biblically sound, and he didn't get rattled very easily. So he went to go right back to work |
| 1:55.0 | after this point. And I'm like going, oh, my word, you know. So I go to the Christian bookstore and I walk in and there's |
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