What's God Got To Do With It?: Finding God in the Ruins: A Journey from Despair to Prayer (with Mattie Jackson Smith)
4 Things with Amy Brown
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What's God Got To Do With It? With Leanne Ellington: Born and raised in a quintessential “country music family”, as the oldest daughter of country music super star Alan Jackson, Mattie Jackson is as down-to-earth and open-hearted as they come. But that doesn't mean she's immune to tragedy and a curveball that could never have been predicted.
Three weeks before her first wedding anniversary, Mattie experienced an unimaginable tragedy and lost her husband to a sudden brain injury. She candidly shares how her life was suddenly turned upside down, and the intense emotional rollercoaster of hope, despair, and ultimately, unimaginable loss that followed. .
Mattie's raw emotions included everything from anger to disappointment to hopelessness, and the struggle to reconcile her prayers that she feared would be left unanswered. Amidst the heartbreak, she shares how she navigated through grief and the quest for meaning in the midst of so much chaos.
The answer was no other than: God.
She leaned on God and her faith to guide her through the darkest times.
Mattie courageously bares her soul and lays it all out for us to hear in this interview for The God Pod, and I have no doubt that this episode will inspire you to live life with more appreciation, courage, and purpose.
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Mattie's Website: https://www.mattiejackson.net/
Mattie's Podcast: In Joy Life Podcast
Mattie's Book: Lemons on Friday
HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | If you want to go on a journey, if you're skeptical, don't worry, not here to preach, |
| 0:19.0 | gonna keep it clean And talk miracles |
| 0:21.2 | Where faith meets |
| 0:23.4 | All of nature |
| 0:24.4 | Get in touch with your creator |
| 0:26.8 | With a baking love and Jew |
| 0:29.0 | She even speaks Hebrew |
| 0:31.1 | What's that got to do with it |
| 0:34.5 | What's got to do with it? Well, hello, and welcome back to do with it. |
| 0:52.6 | I am so excited and grateful to be sitting here with my dear friend, Maddie Jackson, |
| 0:57.3 | who is an author, a podcaster. |
| 0:59.9 | She's a speaker. |
| 1:01.0 | She's also co-founder of Nash Sheville, which is a women's philanthropic organization |
| 1:04.9 | that serves orphans, widows, and victims of human trafficking, |
| 1:08.9 | doing a lot of great work out in the world. But her personal |
| 1:12.4 | testimony and the stories of trials and tribulations and grief and the overcomings that have |
| 1:18.5 | come are just beyond anything I've really heard, especially from somebody that I know. So that |
| 1:23.9 | is especially why I wanted to have here on the podcast. So first and foremost, hello. |
| 1:27.8 | Hey, I'm so glad to be with you. Yeah, so happy to have you here. And, you know, instead of me |
| 1:32.8 | sharing what has brought you to who you are and how you've come to be, I'd love to just turn it |
| 1:37.4 | over to you and just, you know, share with us your story, your journey, what has brought you into the woman that you are, all the good, the bad, |
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