In caring for a parent with Alzheimer's, Holly Elif says pouring your heart out to God is very

important. Sometimes the hardest thing is to get really honest with the Lord, but not stay there,

so that you open the door to him and say, I am dying here. I mean, this is so hard, I cannot do it. But then you open

the door to the Lord and say, what do I need? What are you going to do? Because we have promises from him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamud, along with Dana Gresh,

for September 24, 2019.

Well, all this month on Revive Our Hearts, we've been exploring some of the different areas of life

where we find ourselves having to decide whether or not we're going to trust God

to write our story. Life often doesn't go the way we think it should or wish it would, and so we

have to trust the divine scriptwriter. Over the past few weeks, we've listened as various women

have shared areas where they find their faith being

stretched and tested. We heard from Charmaine Porter who's trusting God, even though he hasn't given her a husband

or children. We heard from Kimberly Wagner, a wife who's learning to trust the Lord as she cares for her

disabled husband. And we listened to Aaron Davis, a mom whose sons were diagnosed

with serious bladder and kidney problems before they were even born, and how she had to surrender

to God's will for those boys, regardless of what that might look like. And then last week, we heard

the moving story of Carrie Tittle, who suddenly lost her husband and two daughters in a catastrophic

tornado. Like Job, she's learning to say, the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the

name of the Lord. Wow. Well, each one is a unique situation with its own particular kind of suffering.

But these women all have one thing in common. They all have to determine, am I going to shake my

fist in God's face while I protest and stay angry at my circumstances? Or am I going to trust

that God is good and he knows what he's up to?

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