Dependency on God Through Prolonged Pain
Dependency on God rarely comes naturally when life sails smoothly. But throw in brokenness or prolonged suffering, and we find ourselves face down at His feet. My guest today continues to walk a painful path, but she shares her story with honesty and truth.
Episode #157: Dependency on God Through Prolonged Pain: God’s Strength to Endure Suffering
Are you battling chronic struggles—whether physical, mental, emotional, relational, or social? Are they eating away at your faith? My guest today has been there. She’s still there, actually. Her plight to endure suffering well keeps her on a daily journey of deeper dependency on God
Author Sydney Anne Bennett knows what it is to live in a body that is unraveling, a world that doesn’t understand, and a church that doesn’t always know what to say. She graciously sat with me in this episode to discuss her journey, her faith, and her book, Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken: Finding Faith When You’re Falling Apart.
With compassion, wit, and quiet strength, Sydney invites you to remember that some of life’s fiercest battles are fought flat on your back—and not one of them is wasted.
In Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken, Sydney shares her story of becoming disabled just two weeks after her honeymoon and learning to live with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)—a condition that disrupts the brain’s ability to send correct signals to the body, resulting in daily seizures, mobility loss, and chronic pain. Learning to live with this disability, as well as the loss and pain that come with it, has been one of her greatest struggles, as well as the way in which God is building her strength. But Sydney doesn’t just talk about disability—she lives with it, coaches on it, and laughs through it, inviting her readers to join her journey of dependency on God.
If you’re longing for heartfelt hope and encouragement to keep going—even when healing doesn’t come —this book and episode are for you, my friend!
As always, I’m in this with you, each UnPerfect step of the way…
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