197: Finding Joy in Life's Hardest Seasons with Kristen Rosener
Kristen Rosener is a wife, working mom of 3, and writer who recently launched an incredible book entitled Where Joy Is: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering, chronicling the story of the hardest season of her life and how God saw her through. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT ON THIS EPISODE: ~Kristen’s new book, Where Joy Is: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering, what led to its release, and what readers can expect ~Kristen’s backstory of how she grew up and what she was taught to believe ~Kristen’s hard journey of walking through abuse and infidelity of her first husband ~How the legalism and perfectionism in Kristen’s past did not serve her well during her season of crisis ~God’s ability to redeem the things we do not think are redeemable ~The false theology of purity culture that says that if you check all the right boxes, you will automatically be guaranteed a fairytale marriage; how purity culture is linked to the prosperity gospel ~The faith crisis Kristen faced after finding the promises of purity culture to not be true ~The problem with making ourselves like someone else in order to please others; the “spiritual disfigurement” that this is ~The problem of idolizing your marriage ~The problem with viewing divorced believers as “second-class citizens” ~How seasons of sorrow can be seasons of grace ~Understanding how a good God can allow bad things to happen ~How unsteady hearts are moved by circumstances instead of standing unwavering on what we know to be true; the importance of being led by truth, not emotion (as important as emotions are!) ~How our unbelief and wrong theology makes our hard seasons far harder ~The trustworthiness of God ~And more! Go to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast for full shownotes.