What if everything that broke you open was actually love doing its most important work?

In this episode Lesley goes back to one of the most disruptive seasons of her life, 18 months with no reprieve between them. Marriage, a move, an unexpected pregnancy, a health crisis, a c-section, and a month away from home holding everything alone. And she tells you what she knows now that she couldn't see then.

She also talks about what it means to watch someone you love in the middle of a disruption they didn't ask for, and the particular kind of surrender that requires.

In this episode:

· Why the hardest season of your life might be the one love is with you through the most

· Every major disruption in scripture is an invitation in disguise

· Jesus is disruptive — and that is not a crisis. That is the invitation.

· God never separates from us — we separate from Him

· The difference between believing in something and experiencing something

· Being held in the free fall — forced courage vs. chosen courage

· Why relationship is the single most protective factor against the hard things

Something to sit with:

Where has love been most disruptive in your life — and where, looking back, can you see love in the disruption, even a thread of it?

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