Jacque Watkins

finding grace through the mud

MS 016 Natalie Snapp: Addiction, Abortion & Finding God {Part 1}

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Welcome to episode 016 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 my friend,  Natalie Snapp—a follower of Jesus, wife to Jason, and mom […]

MS 013 Michele-Lyn Ault: Teenage Pregnancy & A Life Surrendered

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Welcome to episode 013 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 Michele-Lyn Ault, a wife and mama to four beautiful children. She writes about […]

MS 011: Carrie O’Toole ~ RAD Disorder, Mental Illness & Surrender

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Welcome to episode 011 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 Carrie O’Toole a counselor and life coach who lives in Colorado with her […]

MS 010: Crystal Stine ~ Job Loss, Crisis, & Financial Hardship

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Welcome to episode 010 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 my friend (and yours) Crystal Stine–a toddler-wrangling, coffee & chocolate loving, full-time […]

MS 007: Alia Joy ~ Depression, Desperation, and a Broken Hallelujah

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Welcome to episode 007 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 to Alia Joy, a storyteller, speaker, and homeschooling mother of three who makes her […]

When You’re Spun by Change and Weighed Down by Grief

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This past month my friend’s mother dies suddenly, the Sauer family says goodbye to Ben, their brave four-year old cancer-fighter, and another friend cares for her husband in hospice, in what are sure to be his last days here on this earth. And they cling to the hope he’ll make it through Father’s day before […]

When You Need Hope the Day After Easter

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Fifteen years ago yesterday, I sat in my living room and confessed my 2-year affair to my husband. And when I did, I had no plan what I’d do next, and no idea what I even wanted. All I knew was my double-life was destroying me from inside. And no matter how hard it was […]

How God Uses our Messy Muddy Life

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The more I read, the more I see how the Scriptures paint a portrait of a God who sees. A God who knows even me. Especially me. And who uses my life to paint His glory. He who is good and kind, just and righteous, divine and man. Acquainted with suffering and intimate with grief. […]

In the Aftermath of a Mighty Storm, We are Changed

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It was an ordinary Sunday afternoon. That is until the storm began. The storm that wasn’t in our Southern CA forecast–the spring flash storm we weren’t even expecting. The sun was shining with a brilliant blue sky. And then the clouds rolled in, announcing the beginning–blocking the sun, and darkening the sky. Then the wind […]