Relentless Faith in a Relentless God with Michele Cushatt
Today on the CTL podcast, we get to listen in on a conversation between MacKenzie and author and speaker Michele Cushatt. Michele is a wife and mother of 6 who has been through the difficulties of single parenting, cancer surgeries, and other kinds of loss. MacKenzie and Michele talk about her new book, Relentless: The Unshakeable Presence of a God Who Never Leave, focussing on keeping our faith amidst life's hardest trials.
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- Michele talks a little about how she came to write this book through her own experience of prolonged trials
- The difficulty of holding onto faith when things don't make any sense
- Valuing the process of grappling with your doubts and taking them to God
- The importance of keeping sight of the ways God has been faithful to you in the past to help you get through the hard things in the future
- Michele's strategy for setting up "altar stones" of remembrance
- Why Michele included so much about her father in her own story
- Holding the faith amidst the realization that other believers are probably going to wound us at times
- Having been through our own difficulties help us have grace for other people who are hurting
- Recognizing that we are going to fail, but God will be faithful through it all
- Our deep fear of being aloneness and what it means for our relationship with God
- The importance of creating connections with people who will walk with us through the hard times
- Creating space for others to struggle with their faith by sharing your own vulnerabilities
- Michele's typical daily routine
Michele: enjoying drawing and writing with her new markers in her own style of gratitude journal
MacKenzie: watching Hallmark movies and enjoying decorating her house for Christmas early
Resources Mentioned-Relentless by Michele Cushatt
Soul-Keeping by John Ortberg
Find Michele-You can find Michele at michellecushatt.com, and listen to her podcast, This Undone Life Together. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely. You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!
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