197: Finding Joy in Life's Hardest Seasons with Kristen Rosener

<p class="p1"><a href="https://www.wherejoyis.com/">Kristen Rosener</a> is a wife, working mom of 3,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> and writer who recently launched an incredible book entitled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <a href="https://www.wherejoyis.com/book">Where Joy Is: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering</a>, chronicling the story of the hardest season of her life and how God saw her through.</p> <h3>WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT ON THIS EPISODE:</h3> <p class="p1">~Kristen’s new book, <a href="https://www.wherejoyis.com/book">Where Joy Is: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering</a>, what led to its release, and what readers can expect</p> <p class="p1">~Kristen’s backstory of how she grew up and what she was taught to believe</p> <p class="p1">~Kristen’s hard journey of walking through abuse and infidelity of her first husband</p> <p class="p1">~How the legalism and perfectionism in Kristen’s past did not serve her well during her season of crisis</p> <p class="p1">~God’s ability to redeem the things we do not think are redeemable</p> <p class="p1">~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</p> <p class="p1">~The faith crisis Kristen faced after finding the promises of purity culture to not be true</p> <p class="p1">~The problem with making ourselves like someone else in order to please others; the “spiritual disfigurement” that this is</p> <p class="p1">~The problem of idolizing your marriage</p> <p class="p1">~The problem with viewing divorced believers as “second-class citizens”</p> <p class="p1">~How seasons of sorrow can be seasons of grace</p> <p class="p1">~Understanding how a good God can allow bad things to happen</p> <p class="p1">~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!)</p> <p class="p1">~How our unbelief and wrong theology makes our hard seasons far harder</p> <p class="p1">~The trustworthiness of God</p> <p class="p1">~And more!</p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">Go to <a href="https://www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast">www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast</a> for full shownotes.</p> <br /><br />Get full access to Beyond the Boxes at <a href="https://rebekahhargraves.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">rebekahhargraves.substack.com/subscribe</a>