Jacque Watkins

finding grace through the mud

MS 040 Caryn Christensen: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Trusting God

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Welcome to episode 040 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. Today I’m talking with Caryn Christensen, writer, music teacher, and mother to two girls. Caryn  describes herself as […]

Remembering Holy Week and Jesus’ Call to Love and Abide

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In this Holy week I’ve been pondering the events of Jesus’ last two days, and remembering. I remember how He celebrated Passover with His disciples that Thursday evening. How He ate and drank with them. How He gave thanks–the hardest eucharisteo. And then how He washed their feet. I remember how they wondered–how they were confused and didn’t understand. Why would […]

When the Struggle is Great and You Want to Just Quit {Deeper Waters Post}

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She delivered her fourth baby yesterday and you could hear her struggle all the way down the hall. Amidst the repeated attempts of the anesthesiologist to remedy the problem, her epidural never worked. And while birth is a beautiful moment, the journey to arrive there is work–painful and excruciating work–which makes it almost impossible to imagine […]

MS 024 Craig and Jen Ferguson: Pornography, Marriage, and How to Find Hope

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Welcome to episode 024 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 joined by my husband Thad, as together we talk with Craig and Jen Ferguson, a couple whose bravery […]

MS 023 Michelle DeRusha: Doubt, Unbelief, and Feeling Like a Spiritual Misfit

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Welcome to episode 023 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 Michelle DeRusha—writer, author, speaker and Massachusetts native,  who relocated to the Great […]