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Carrie Spratley joins us to share her powerful journey from young motherhood to author, revealing how God met her in life's deepest valleys and transformed her through trust and surrender. Her testimony of becoming a mother at 21, experiencing miscarriage, and finding purpose through serving natural disaster victims shows how God works through our hardest circumstances.
• Becoming a mom at 21 and navigating feelings of shame and separation from God's best
• Learning to trust God by allowing Him to love through us, even in our darkest moments
• Processing grief after miscarriage and seeing God's restoration through the birth of another son
• Finding purpose through volunteer work with Samaritan's Purse despite being naturally introverted
• Understanding our job as parents is to guide children toward independence, not dependence
• Rejecting mediocrity and embracing God's capacity to do "exceedingly abundantly more"
• Practical steps to discover God's purpose, including writing down kingdom-minded desires
• Recognizing the difference between God's known will (love God, love others, make disciples) and His discerning will for our individual lives
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