This YouTube interview (Learning to Surrender: When Faith Becomes Real) features host Betsy Guerra and a guest discussing how faith became real through hardship. The guest describes the pain of 2018 as a formative gift that deepened their relationship with God, emphasizes surrendering control to God's plan over personal planning, and frames suffering as a common avenue toward spiritual closeness.
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Why don't we wrap this up by you sharing a little bit of what does. What does faith mean to you? And how has it shown up in your life and how has it impacted your life?
So I would say that one of the greatest gifts I received was the pain of 2018. And the reason why I can call it a gift now is because it brought me so much closer to God, and it helped me become more of who I am. And I think it was in that faith, right? It was in that. In that year that I got so close to God. And it's really wild that so many of us, right, so many of the people that you speak to, so many of. Of your guests will at one point share that moment in their life that they got closer to God. And I'd be willing to bet my house that the majority of the time, it's through really, really hard moments and moments that you. You can't fathom, you can't understand. It feels unfair. You feel like. But I did everything right. I did everything right, and it still didn't work.
Work.
And I think that's where we get to put it in God's hands and not ours. And as a recovering control freak, I get to remember. And as somebody that loves to plan, I get to remember that my plan for my life is nowhere near how great God's plan is for my life. And it's in that faith that I want to live. And my little tiny, puny human brain wants to fight God sometimes. And I get to remember that I. I can't compete with him. I can't compete with him.
Amen to that. God's plan for you is always better than your own. That's right. Than your own. Yeah.
