A Tornado, a Pandemic and Podcast
Friends, I must admit I have gotten behind on posting my podcast interviews. So this post will have the last two combined because I want to make sure you don’t miss them and I don’t want you to wait any longer to hear them.
I have a good reason for getting behind.
On Easter Sunday I wrote a blog post with a picture of me standing in the Garden Tomb on a previous trip to Easter.
Several times I have had the blessing of walking into the empty Garden Tomb. When I walked out, I was reminded again hope is alive. If ever there is a day and time we need a reminder that Hope is alive it in now.
I believed that when I typed it on the strangest Easter Sunday we have ever had with a worldwide pandemic raging full-blown and the world’s Easter celebration looking very different.
I didn’t know that a few hours later on Easter Sunday at 11:30 pm a tornado would touch down and devastate my community. We had no warning. They said the storms were passing around us, that there was no need to worry.
All of a sudden they got very serious and said, ” take cover now.”
I grabbed my upstairs neighbor and brought her down to my apartment and we huddled behind my bed as the tornado touched down.
The Lord truly was our refuge and He keeps reminding me hope still is alive, even as I go from ruined house to ruined house providing crisis counseling in the town I have grown up in that’s landscape completely changed in an instant.
(This is the whole reason I am behind on blogging. Can I get a tornado in the midst of a pandemic pass please?)
The day after I was with my friends who lost their home trying to help them salvage things. We watched the sunset in a landscape that had completely changed and I was reminded in my heart that what had not changed was the God who painted that sunset.
Friends you may have been in a literal tornado in the past week.
You may feel overwhelmed by the emotional tornado’s caused by a pandemic.
You may wonder what God’s plans are.
These podcast interviews will bring such encouragement to your soul.
Join me and my new friend Mazi Robinson. She is a counselor and does an amazing job bringing encouragement to our souls about how to handle and process our emotions during a pandemic, or any time of stress and anxiety.
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Next let me introduce you to Rebecca Smith. Her book is down as literally one of the BEST books I have read in a long time. And I read a ton of books.
The book A Better Life was actually on my bed because I was re-reading it when the tornado hit so it ended up on the ground beside me as I sheltered from the storm. So thanks Rebecca for that encouragement as the storm passed over 🙂
Her story of how God took her dreams and did more than she could have asked or imagined in amazing and so encouraging. I cannot wait for you to lean in and listen to what God can do with our YES!
(Ps: just a side note this was recorded weeks before we knew of any pandemic so that is why there is no mention of the pandemic. )
I cannot wait for you to join us on this interview.
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Ps: I imagine you find yourself without plans tomorrow night. Our Spring Bloom Conference was supposed to be this weekend. While we are sad to not be able to host it in person, we are thrilled to offer it online and for free.
Now for the Show Notes:
Jenn is welcoming Mazi Robinson as her guest today on the show.
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Jenn Hand welcomes Rebecca Smith to the show this week.
Mentioned in this episode:
Rebecca’s Book: A Better Life
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