Shift Happens: From Pain to Purpose

How God Sustained A Single Mom Through 570 Days Without Income w/ Deirdre Edwards

Episode Summary

What do you do when you’re almost 50, starting over again, and faith is all you have left? This episode is about grief, identity, hyper-independence, shame, radical provision… and the moment on a beach when she heard God whisper, “It’s all true. I am real.”

Episode Notes

On this episode of Shift Happens, we’re stepping into the tension between survival and surrender.

Deirdre Edwards lost both of her parents by the age of 25. She later found herself in a loveless marriage, raising two kids, and ultimately rebuilding her life from a one-bedroom apartment — only to walk into work one morning and be told her position was eliminated.

 Ninety days of severance. No savings. No child support.

What do you do when you’re almost 50, starting over again, and faith is all you have left?

This episode is about grief, identity, hyper-independence, shame, radical provision… and the moment on a beach when she heard God whisper, “It’s all true. I am real.”

 

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