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240. From God to Jerry to You- When Suffering Strikes: Finding Meaning, Love, and God in Hard Times
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Why do good people suffer? What does it mean when pain and loss enter our lives without warning? In this profoundly moving episode of From God To Jerry To You, Jerry L. Martin shares a personal story that brings the universal question of suffering into sharp, intimate focus.
When Jerry’s wife, Abigail, experienced a series of life-threatening health crises—a broken hip, emergency surgery, and a near-fatal internal bleed—Jerry found himself grappling with what he has long called the unanswerable question: Why does a loving God allow pain?
These events tested not only his faith but his capacity for love, resilience, and presence in the face of real fear.
Drawing from his dialogues with God and his books God: An Autobiography, and Radically Personal, Jerry reflects on whether suffering has meaning, purpose, or any redeeming qualities. He discusses how caregiving became a spiritual practice and how supporting a loved one can transform pain into an expression of love in action, discovering how moments of crisis can unmask the deepest truths about our relationships and ourselves.
Listeners will hear how faith can be reshaped by hardship, why caregiving can feel both like a burden and a blessing, and how love often shows itself most clearly when everything else falls away. Whether you are spiritual but not religious, exploring your own questions about suffering and purpose, or simply interested in hearing one man’s honest story of struggle and faith, this episode offers insight and encouragement.
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What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.
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Chapters
1. 240. From God to Jerry to You- When Suffering Strikes: Finding Meaning, Love, and God in Hard Times (00:00:00)
2. Introduction to God: An Autobiography, The Podcast (00:00:17)
3. The Problem of Suffering Hits Home: From God to Jerry to You (00:01:02)
4. Near-Death and the Unanswerable Question of Pain (00:02:18)
5. Why Do Bad Things Happen? Wrestling with Suffering and Faith (00:04:49)
6. Pain with a Purpose: A Conversation with God (00:05:54)
7. Love Unmasked Through Hardship (00:07:13)
8. The Gift of Caregiving and Joy in Action (00:08:39)
9. Co-Creating Life’s Script with God (00:09:49)
10. Outro and Contact Information: Stay Connected (00:11:23)
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