Welcome to episode 059 of Mud Stories!
Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone.
In today’s episode I’m talking with Kristen Strong, mama to twin boys, a darling daughter, and wife to her retired military man, David, where they reside together near the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
As a born and bred Oklahoma girl, Kristen loves country music, cowboy boots, and Chasing Blue Skies, and has come to appreciate change and loss as inevitable parts of life–parts to be embraced and even celebrated as representations of God’s goodness and grace.
Kristen’s first book released this week entitled, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life’s Transitions
In this episode Kristen shares:
- Her own journey through change including infertility, military moves and reassignments, and her daughter’s neck and back injury
- How change is significant and brings loss
- And how change can be a very lonely time, especially if there is grieving
Kristen discusses:
- How God uses change as a catalyst to give us not just good things, but best things
- Why we should give thanks in the middle of change or loss
- How to find a friend–and be a friend–during change
- And how God wants to be with you in your change, loss, and transitioning moments
May you find Kristen’s thoughts encouraging as you face your own unexpected moments of change, loss, and transition.
Enjoy!
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SCRIPTURE:
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thess 5:16-18 (ESV)
CONNECT with Kristen:
Website:
- Kristen’s website: www.chasingblueskies.net
- Kristen’s book: Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life’s Transitions
SOCIAL MEDIA:
LINKS:
- Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life’s Transitions, by Kristen Strong
- Serving You: 31 Days of Encouragement for the Military Wife
, by Kristen Strong
- The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom
- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
, by Ann Voskamp
- The Lost Art of Listening, by Lisa Jo Baker
- Girl Meets Change small group companion guide (with the purchase of the book–through September 30, 2015) Instructions can be found HERE!
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