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God is everywhere. He is always up to something. His goodness cannot be explained. It certainly can't be deserved, and you cannot predict it.

So you should just live in a way that assumes that he knows exactly what he's doing, that he's for your life, and that you would pray for exactly what he's going to do if you knew all that he did.

Turning to that connection that we have already been establishing day by day to God can be crucial for us to lean on when nothing else makes sense.

Author and podcaster Clear Cherry Reeves clung hard to her relationship with God when her son sledge who was born three months premature fought for his life.

Author Larry Loftus shares about the incredible bond Corey Ten Boom had with God and how she bravely trusted his guidance to do what was right as she helped hide Jewish people in her home who were fleeing Nazi oppression during World War II.

The relationship these women built daily with God informed their responses to heartache and tragedy. Let's hear Clear Story first.

Hello, my name is Clear Cherry Reeves, and I am from Greenville, North Carolina. I am an author, a podcaster, a speaker. I own a company brand called Clearly Stated. Also a mother recently became a mother in July, 2021.

Why daughter?

Growing up, I thought I wanted to be a news reporter, and then in college did a few internships and realized that my heart was really to sit with people in their stories and understand where their heart was at and speak to that and maybe less about their research.

And I had a kind of a glamorous view of that, but growing up, I grew up in a household that certainly prioritized scripture, my mom owned a Christian gift company, so it was always run and center and through that, you know, really developed a personal relationship with the Lord, but I feel like it was probably in high school and certainly in college where it became personal.

It became where it was no longer what I knew was good for me, but Jesus really became my best friend.

My son's ledge was born three months early, so he graced the world a little bit ahead of schedule, and when he was born, he weighed one pound 12 ounces. I was 26 weeks pregnant, and headed in for my glucose screening that Friday.

Until at 23rd, 2021, and immediately was rushed to the hospital.

Sledge Reeves made his appearance into the world. They told us based on the ultrasound before he was born that he was going to have fluid all around his organs and his brain, and that just things were very dismal.

When he was born, that was not the case at all. God had already worked a million miracles on our behalf and on his behalf of his life, and he was born successfully.

Intubated, and we were in the hospital for almost five months. We originally came home on oxygen. He had a few ethnic episodes, and so we went back to the hospital, and it was quite a journey.

You know, throughout that time, it's one thing, like I said, to talk about depending on God, but it's another when truly every single day.

I think you learn how to hold the grief of knowing your child's fighting for their life every day, with the joy that your child is fighting for their life every day.

And he's crushing it, and so strong, and receiving God's care and nourishment and the nurses were amazing, and just seeing all these miracles, but knowing that you could feel the weight and the intensity of the experience and the season that you're in,

while still being a faithful mother, and a faithful wife, and a faithful friend, and a faithful daughter, and all of these roles, and do it well, and just to receive that grace.

I feel like when we were in the hospital, before such came home, and that daily experience, I felt like the veil between heaven and earth was thinner than a sheet.

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