Unfolding Short Stories: "What's he doing alive?" Susie Larson
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Susie Larson shares a story where it felt like God was absent, or "lost" her "address". Through sickness with her very young kids, her own journey with Lyme disease, she realized that God had not turned her back on her, but rather He used these trials so He could say "Yes" to her son Jordan's life.
"Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalms 46:10)
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:06.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:09.6 | Have you ever been in a season where it felt like God lost your address? |
| 0:15.0 | Have you ever been in such a season where God intervened in a way that reminded you that he delights in every detail of your |
| 0:22.9 | life? That's what happened to me. It was a time when I was a young mom with three sons. I had high-risk |
| 0:30.4 | pregnancies with second and third sons, months on bed rest. Our middle son, when he was about 18 months old, |
| 0:39.8 | had respiratory troubles, and ended up in the hospital. And there was a point where we wonder if we'd get to take him home. His chest caved in |
| 0:46.2 | with every breath that looked like his ribs would break with every breath, and he weezed all the way |
| 0:50.3 | down to his toes. Nothing they could do was helping him. There was a point when one of the |
| 0:55.4 | doctors said, I don't know if his heart is going to last another 24 hours. It was devastating. |
| 1:01.8 | But then they called a specialist onto the scene. He gave him special medicine, and things turned |
| 1:06.4 | around. Shortly after that, I found out I was pregnant with baby number three. |
| 1:16.2 | Six months of bed rest with a high-risk pregnancy called in all my friend favors. |
| 1:21.9 | And really that time of being on bed rest with a one and a three-year-old, |
| 1:29.5 | seeing my friends get tired because of me, confronted all of my insecurities. and I was still very new in the faith, and God seemed silent. I'd open the Bible, and the word felt dead on the page. I see the |
| 1:36.1 | fatigue in my friend's eyes, and I could tell they were losing that love and feeling. I wondered |
| 1:41.0 | if everybody was going to change their mind about me. |
| 1:51.0 | During that six months time on bed rest, my doctors let me get up and test the waters. |
| 1:54.6 | So I was about six months along, three months left to go of this pregnancy. |
| 1:59.2 | And I met my old college roommates on a fall day in the Midwest. |
| 2:02.4 | We went for a walk, had a wonderful time. I was super careful. We had lunch. But that proved to be too much. I started to contract again and had to go |
| 2:07.7 | back to bed. On my left side, drank lots of water, calling in all my friend favors, three more |
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