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This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n"},"spectra_custom_meta":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"transcript_url":["https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/fl2020-06-23.pdf"],"audio_file":["https:\/\/mp3.familylife.com\/fl2020-06-23.mp3"],"transcript_content":["<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Jeff Walton was facing a difficult dilemma: his job made it possible for him and Sarah to live a comfortable lifestyle, one they both enjoyed; and yet, increasingly, his job was taking him away from his wife and his family in times when she really needed him. Jeff found himself wondering if his job would somehow cost him his marriage and his family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>We had been planning how to remodel our kitchen; we had plans for renovating the basement in this home\u2014and growing old\u2014and seeing the kids grow up in this home. Then, after four short years in that, all of this came to a screeching halt; and now it\u2019s a \u201cY\u201d in road: \u201cAre we going to go left and try in our own strength?\u201d or \u201cAre we going to try and follow the path of Christ and save our family?\u201d<br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, June 23<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You\u2019ll find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. The dilemma Jeff Walton was facing is not uncommon. Many of us have to figure out how to balance work, life, marriage, and family. How do we do that? We\u2019ll talk more with Jeff and Sarah about that today. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I remember a night\u2014Mary Ann and I had been married for almost five years at this point\u2014and it\u2019s the spring of 1984. We were out walking our daughter, Amy, around the neighborhood; she was in a stroller. The sun was setting; it was a beautiful spring evening. We had just moved into a house that we had built; we had worked with the builder and gotten the house just the way we wanted to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember, as I\u2019m walking around the neighborhood, and I\u2019m thinking, \u201cLife is pretty perfect\u201d; and I had this thought hit me, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t last like this for people.\u201d That\u2019s an unusual thought for me to have, because an optimistic guy, going, \u201cThis is how it\u2019s supposed to be\/life\u2019s supposed to go,\u201d\u2014right? I remember it hitting me, going, \u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, within the next two weeks, I went in on a Monday morning, and my boss said, \u201cWe\u2019re letting you go.\u201d Two weeks later, I was out to lunch with some friends; and Mary Ann calls and says, \u201cI just got back from the doctor; I\u2019m pregnant.\u201d [Laughter] All of a sudden, I\u2019m watching everything that had just seemed perfect start to\u2014it was piling up on top of us\u2014and it led us into the most stressful season we were in in our marriage. But it was almost like God had whispered ahead to me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody\u2019s going to have these seasons. Now, when the season becomes years upon years, that can get tiring\/that can get exhausting. That\u2019s where you go, \u201cHow long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?\u201d and start quoting Psalm 13 over and over to yourself.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have a couple joining us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> this week who have been through a prolonged season of one thing after another in their marriage and in their family. Jeff and Sarah Walton are here. Welcome, guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Jeff and Sarah live in Chicago; they\u2019re parents of four kids. We\u2019ve been hearing their story this week and hearing about how marriage kind of started off in a semi-idyllic start, and then your son was born, and there were health challenges with him that doctors couldn\u2019t diagnose. It was kind of regular acting out on his part; you didn\u2019t know what was going on physically, or spiritually, or emotionally with him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, in the midst of this, you have additional kids. You have a job, Jeff, where you\u2019re on call and having to be in and out of the family. Then, Sarah, you start to experience health issues that ultimately get diagnosed as Lyme disease.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019ve written about this in a book called <em>Together Through the Storms<\/em>, and you\u2019ve looked at the Book of Job in Scripture and said, \u201cWe see some parallels with what he went through and what we\u2019ve gone through.\u201d Take us to the point that your sickness\/what you were feeling, Sarah, was ultimately diagnosed and you realized you have a progressive illness that there\u2019s no cure for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes; it was after my fourth had been born. I had seen several doctors at that point. I had gotten various diagnoses, but none of them really seemed to do much. I\u2019d try treatments that they suggested, and it didn\u2019t really help that much. At the time, I met a girl who had just been diagnosed with Lyme disease; and she was actually the one I co-authored <em>Hope When It Hurts<\/em> with at that time. She was the one that suggested I go see her Lyme doctors.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said: \u201cI don\u2019t have Lyme disease. That doesn\u2019t sound like it fits what I have.\u201d So she said: \u201cJust go anyway. They look at everything. They\u2019ll be able to tell you kind of what\u2019s going on.\u201d I ended up doing that, because honestly I just didn\u2019t have any options; I didn\u2019t know what to do. The first day I got there, they looked at my symptoms, they did a bunch of tests; and they said, \u201cWell, we can\u2019t give you a diagnosis on paper right now because we don\u2019t have test results; but clinically, you have every symptom.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI left that day really a mixture of glad that I had some kind of answer, maybe, but terrified that: \u201cI don\u2019t know what this means. From what I\u2019ve learned and what I see, it doesn\u2019t exactly seem like something I should be happy about; because there isn\u2019t any clear answer as to what will get rid of it, if it can be healed or cured, or how to manage it best.\u201d I really didn\u2019t know a lot about it, other than knowing that it can affect all sorts of parts of your body; and it will probably stay with you for all of your life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>How long ago was this diagnosis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>That was probably maybe five years ago, and that was at the time that was really probably the pinnacle of our trials going on. There was\u2014the intensity with our son reached a point, where we were having to seek wisdom about whether we would admit him to the hospital, because\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is your son, who had been acting out with behavior issues, and had physiological issues along with that, and still undiagnosed at this point; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>Correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes, we had seen several different doctors. Really, it got the point where, for the safety of him and our family, we just didn\u2019t know if we were able to keep him in the home\u2014which, if you\u2019re a parent, you\u2019ll know how heart-wrenching that is\u2014to even think about. It felt like we were giving up on him in many ways. It felt like: \u201cAt what point do you feel like that\u2019s the right decision?\u201d I mean, there is no really clear answer to that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe sought the counsel of some pastors; and at the same time, things had gotten so bad with his job, where he was gone so much, and he wasn\u2019t actually really being compensated for how much he was working; so it was stressful for him as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was getting sicker, and sicker, and sicker. At the same time, our medical bills started to skyrocket, because a lot of the doctors we were seeing didn\u2019t take insurance; so we\u2019d pay a lot out of pocket. My son\u2019s doctors that we were seeing\u2014we were trying all sorts of supplements and things like that\u2014that we would have to pay out of pocket for. Those started to increase, and the pressure just started to build, and build, and build. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe had some of the elders from our church come over just to pray with us and to give us counsel. I think, before that, God had already begun to work in our hearts\u2014on: \u201cAre we willing to walk away from the comfort we have for the sake of our family?\u201d We had already been starting to <em>feel<\/em> some of that leading\u2014didn\u2019t know what that would look like\u2014but I think God had already been somewhat bringing that to our attention.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInterestingly, at that meeting, we decided, \u201cWell, let\u2019s wait on admitting right now.\u201d We decided, instead, to start trying some medication to see if that would alleviate anything. But the main takeaway was\u2014I think one of our pastors looked at Jeff and said, \u201cI think I would rather flip hamburgers than to lose my family right now,\u201d\u2014basically making the point that \u201cWhatever you lose financially, it will never be worth the cost of losing your marriage and your family, and spiritually honoring the Lord in this situation,\u201d\u2014I think that\u2019s what we needed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>He was saying, continuing in the job you were in, was that dangerous?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>I think they saw, from the outside perspective, how dire of a situation we were in. We were so backed up against a wall that\u2014we knew it; we knew it\u2014I mean, we were hanging on by a thread on every level you possibly\u2014my mental health, my physical health, my emotional health, and our marriage\u2014and even our kids. I mean, they were <em>suffering<\/em>, at this point, with everything that was happening in our home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I think a lot of what was going on, also, is\u2014for so long, we had been kind of that team that was just addressing and focusing on our kids\u2019 challenges\u2014and now, we were at a stage, where that was starting to bubble up to the top. Tensions that had been moved on from one day to the next, and the challenges of being able to communicate that\u2014because I was in and out of the home so often, we didn\u2019t really have the time or energy to really walk through that appropriately\u2014so now, that was the stuff that was really swept underneath the rug. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe lifted up the rug and that was seen now\u2014and all the ugliness, and all of the hurt, and things that had transpired over the last decade\u2014we were now wrestling with in front of us: \u201cHow do we move forward?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When a pastor says, \u201cI think I\u2019d rather flip burgers than to lose my family,\u201d were you at a point in your marriage where losing the marriage was something on the table?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>No; not from a standpoint of walking away from each other; and by God\u2019s grace, that did not ever come to our minds in the form of acting on it. During this time, it was the first time that I think we both saw, \u201cWow, this is where couples get to where they truly can walk away.\u201d While we didn\u2019t have, maybe, the best of relationship, we were constantly in God\u2019s Word, and pressing into His Word, and trusting solely in Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So there was never a time you thought about walking away from God?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Oh no; no\u2014Ahhhh! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014or faith, or\u2014you know, how was that?\u2014was the faith a struggle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I think, from the standpoint of wrestling with God and not to the point of denying who God was. I think one of the biggest things that\u2014you know, we address this in the book, of really getting into lamenting\u2014something that I\u2019ve, not until recently, really understood what that truly means. When you look at Job\u2014and when you look at, certainly, the Psalms, and Lamentations, and throughout the Bible\u2014of \u201cWhat does that really mean?\u2014to bring your pain and your confusion, and appropriately ask the \u2018Why?\u2019 questions and the \u2018How long?\u2019\u201d Job does this, incredibly, throughout much of the book. Lament truly has to bring you to the point, where it\u2019s coming full circle back to the trust, and \u201cWhat do I believe about God and the promises of God?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo answer your question, Dave, I don\u2019t think it was ever a point, where I was ready to pack it up on God\u2014not go to church, never open my Bible again\u2014and only by His grace and mercy did He give me the strength to wake up and to open His Word. I thank Him for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You had a sentence in your book, that I read last night, that kind of stopped me for a second. You say: \u201cSatan\u2019s mission remains the same. He wants to convince you to turn against God. His pathway to that can subtly lie in persuading you to turn against your spouse.\u201d You guys were at that point, where you had a decision to make, whether you were going to turn against one another or turn to God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes, yes. You know, what\u2019s really interesting\u2014throughout those years that we were struggling with our son\u2014there was clearly a very spiritual dynamic to it, which was very confusing to us. He would say things that no four- or five-year-old should know how to say. We would start praying, and he would start screaming at us. We would try to bring up conversations; and he\u2019d angrier, and he\u2019d throw things at us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe went through a period of time of just praying, \u201cLord, we have to trust that You are in control of this boy\u2019s life\/that You are greater than any enemy.\u201d It was clear he had a neurological disorder\u2014we weren\u2019t questioning that by any means\u2014but it was clear the enemy was also taking advantage of it. When we would have times that we were struggling, we would see that intensify. There was clearly a spiritual dynamic that was going on. We have seen that clearly over the years. There were times, when he [Jeff] would be gone more is when I would feel more of that battle go on; things would get harder at home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile I would say I agree that I didn\u2019t ever think of walking away from the Lord, I have certainly come to points, where I have really struggled with wondering: \u201cGod, I have no idea who You are. If You would let this happen\u2014I want to say I trust You, but I don\u2019t even know who I\u2019m trusting anymore.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor example, after\u2014so what we had done\u2014after that pastor\u2019s conversation, we ended up deciding that it was\/the best decision was to have him find a new job that would allow him to be home; because I needed the help. I think we both knew that was clear; the Lord put us in a position, where there was really no ignoring it anymore. We couldn\u2019t find our way around it, so he ended up searching for jobs. After a few months, he found a job. Not long after that\u2014well, what they had told us he would be taking as a pay cut would be a 40 percent pay cut, which we knew would be substantial; we\u2019d have to sell our home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>At this time we were in our dream home, which we thought we\u2019d be in forever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I think that challenge of really dying to self and something that we had been planning how to remodel our kitchen; we had plans for renovating the basement in this home\u2014and growing old\u2014and seeing the kids grow up in this home. Then, after four short years in that, all of this came to a screeching halt; and now it\u2019s a \u201cY\u201d in the road: \u201cAre we going to try and muster our own strength and do things on our own condition?\u201d or \u201cAre we going to follow where we see wise counsel, and seek God, and change jobs?\u201d I think that had to be done in order to restore our marriage relationship\u2014take the steps back to putting family first\u2014and not let that even go on one step further.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The physical challenges\u2014I don\u2019t want to minimize those at all\u2014but the reality of selling the dream home, changing to a new job\u2014there\u2019s an emotional toll, for a husband and a dad, who\u2019s thinking, \u201cThis is what I\u2019ve wanted to do for my wife and my kids; and now we\u2019re going to a rental house,\u201d and \u201cI have a new job\u2014and it\u2019s maybe not as prestigious a job and it\u2019s certainly not the income that I\u2019m capable of making\u2014but I need to be here to take care of my family.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI can see where <em>I would<\/em>, in that situation, start to go, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here with <em>me<\/em>?\u201d\u2014right?\u2014did you feel some of that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I certainly did. That even got <em>greater<\/em> by about a year-and-a-half into the job\u2014so transition into a new job, take a pay cut, swallow my pride\u2014and then the company went through a huge reorganization, and I was laid off. At that point, all the questions of: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWhy, God? We have sought Your purpose and Your will, prayed through this fervently\u2014thought it was good and we had Your blessing going to a new job\u2014and then, just a year-and-a-half later, the rug gets pulled out underneath us.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat hit us both really hard\u2014the reality of what that meant for our family\u2014again, as just a guy, and now the sole provider of our family\u2014we had no income. We had rising medical bills, the kids\u2019 challenges were still there, Sarah\u2019s health problems were still there. And now, where I could kind of escape and go to my job, I didn\u2019t have that anymore.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>If I can jump in, too\u2014throughout that year\/prior year was when we started seeing increasing symptoms in our kids of other ailments. Our girl behind our oldest started having joint pain consistently, our daughter below her was too tired to even ride her bike around the block. Her legs couldn\u2019t keep up with it; she was showing signs of fatigue; she was losing her hair. There were all sorts of things going on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThroughout that year, eventually, each child was diagnosed with Lyme as well. We found out that I could pass it gestation-ally. Suddenly, we were hit with: \u201cOh no; it\u2019s not just me anymore. Our entire family is now battling this,\u201d which means our entire family has to do these costly treatments that insurance doesn\u2019t cover. It was really not long after that that he lost his job. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo go back to what I was saying earlier, that is the point that I think I hit rock bottom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014where you said, \u201cOkay, God\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes; I was like, \u201cI didn\u2019t sign up for this!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Oh, yes. I don\u2019t know if I would have lasted long as you did; but I can just be screaming at the ceiling, saying, \u201cWhat are You doing?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes; that was probably the point where I dealt with the most anger. It was a combination of things. It was\u2014once we were out of the intensity of the situation\u2014meaning he was home more so I, at least, had his help for some of the basic physical demands at home\u2014as that had happened, I was starting to have emotions surface\u2014that I was like, \u201cWhere are these coming from?\u201d All of a sudden, resentment started to come up, and anger started to come up. It was like, all of a sudden, I had enough of a break to start to <em>feel<\/em> what I hadn\u2019t been able to feel for <em>years<\/em> prior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI didn\u2019t know what was going on. I was like: \u201cWhy do I feel so resentful towards Jeff all of a sudden? Why am I feeling anger towards the Lord over all that He\u2019s allowed over these years?\u201d I kept having flashbacks of really bad moments with my son that I just couldn\u2019t shake. I would think about them all the time, and they\u2019d reignite those scary feelings.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat came to the point, then, where he lost his job; and honestly, I felt like the Lord was <em>cruel<\/em>; that\u2019s really what I struggled with. I believed He was in control; I really did. That\u2019s where it caused me to struggle with His <em>goodness<\/em>; because I knew, \u201cYou could have stopped this. I know we saw You clearly leading us; and yet, You led us to a worse situation,\u201d\u2014that I struggled to wrestle with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Is it still going on, at some level?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Well, I think to some degree, yes; because we\u2019ve continued to have layered trials that keep seeming to happen. But as I look back, I can definitely see how the Lord has carried me gradually to trusting Him at a deeper level, not by what I can see, but what I know is true in Scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI won\u2019t say\u2014it certainly wasn\u2019t overnight\u2014I was digging into the Word more and more. I realized it became more of my lifeline. I <em>needed<\/em> to be in Scripture every day\u2014it wasn\u2019t just to grow in knowledge\u2014it was purely because I needed to remind myself, every day, that the Lord was <em>seeing<\/em> me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Was there any Scripture that really hit you\/comforted you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Well, there were several of them. A couple that come to mind are hearing Paul talk about his losses and his gains in Philippians. Thinking about how Paul had had all of these incredible qualifications\u2014you know, he had been revered; he had been so high up\u2014and when Christ met him on that road and changed his life, he ended up getting to the point, where he was saying, \u201cAll of that I now consider as loss.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I started to think about that, in light of he saw Christ as gain, I could see that pattern happen in my life. The one loss after another\u2014what it ended up doing is\u2014every time I lost something, I had to come back to that foundational question, \u201cIs Christ enough if I lose this?\u201d It seemed that the Lord allowed that in every different area of life. It was my physical health: \u201cIf this is the condition I\u2019m going to be living in the rest of my life, do I believe that Christ will carry my through this?\u201d and \u201cDo I believe that there\u2019s still goodness in this?\u201d Each time I had to wrestle with that, I think it dug those faith roots just a little deeper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t think you often feel it in the moment. You know, it\u2019s usually, I think, when you look back and you see, \u201cI don\u2019t know how I survived that, but now I can see that the Lord was holding me up.\u201d I have so many moments, where I look back and I think: \u201cI can see how the Lord was with me in that room. He restrained me from reacting to something that I should have, in all fleshly reasons, reacted to.\u201d Or I was able to keep my composure in a really terrifying situation\u2014or even situations between Jeff and I\u2014we had to work through things, of course; and it was really ugly at times, but you can even see how the Lord preserved our friendship with each other. <br><br>There were so many marks of His grace that we could go on, and on, and on about; but I think that has been a <em>slow<\/em> progression of that, as I\u2019ve gone back to these truths over and over. And there are several more. We\u2019ve loved Job, because he was in that for so long. I mean, we noted in the book that the Book of Job would be much shorter if God had answered him quickly. [Laughter] Isn\u2019t that our lives?\u2014most of our life is waiting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, and you hear your story\u2014again, we\u2019re sitting on the outside, looking in\u2014you\u2019ve lived it; you are living it\u2014I hear it. Honestly, I\u2019ve heard a lot of hard stories; this one just keeps going. Honestly, the passage that comes to me, because I think you guys are evidence of Psalm 34: \u201cThe Lord is close to the brokenhearted and those who are crushed in spirit.\u201d As we listen to your story, we <em>know<\/em> the depth of the crushing of your spirit. Yet, there\u2019s light here. There\u2019s a Lord that is close, and that\u2019s the beauty of why you\u2019re letting people inside this story; because you\u2019re going to give them hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>A lot of people are going to find that as they get a copy of the book. In fact, we\u2019re making the book available this week to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners. If you\u2019d like a copy, you can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com; and if you can make a donation to help support this ministry, the book is our gift to you\/our way of saying, \u201cThank you for your ongoing support of the work of this ministry.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, you think about this: the conversation you\u2019ve heard today happened because another listener said, \u201cThis is important, and I want other people to be able to hear this.\u201d We\u2019re asking you to do the same for other listeners. If you would support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> so that this kind of practical biblical help and hope for marriages and families can be more readily accessible in more ways\u2014more platforms\/more channels\u2014for more people, we\u2019d love to send you, as a thank-you gift, your copy of Jeff and Sarah\u2019s book, <em>Together Through the Storms: Biblical Encouragement for Your Marriage When Life Hurts<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com to make a donation, or call 1-800-FL-TODAY; you can make a donation over the phone. Ask for your copy of Jeff and Sarah\u2019s book when you make that donation. Thank you for your support of the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. 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the time Sarah Walton was diagnosed with Lyme disease, she and her husband, Jeff's emotional, mental, and physical reserves were at their breaking point. They tell how the Bible became their lifeline.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/fl2020-06-23.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Jeff Walton was facing a difficult dilemma: his job made it possible for him and Sarah to live a comfortable lifestyle, one they both enjoyed; and yet, increasingly, his job was taking him away from his wife and his family in times when she really needed him. Jeff found himself wondering if his job would somehow cost him his marriage and his family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>We had been planning how to remodel our kitchen; we had plans for renovating the basement in this home\u2014and growing old\u2014and seeing the kids grow up in this home. Then, after four short years in that, all of this came to a screeching halt; and now it\u2019s a \u201cY\u201d in road: \u201cAre we going to go left and try in our own strength?\u201d or \u201cAre we going to try and follow the path of Christ and save our family?\u201d<br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, June 23<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You\u2019ll find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. The dilemma Jeff Walton was facing is not uncommon. Many of us have to figure out how to balance work, life, marriage, and family. How do we do that? We\u2019ll talk more with Jeff and Sarah about that today. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I remember a night\u2014Mary Ann and I had been married for almost five years at this point\u2014and it\u2019s the spring of 1984. We were out walking our daughter, Amy, around the neighborhood; she was in a stroller. The sun was setting; it was a beautiful spring evening. We had just moved into a house that we had built; we had worked with the builder and gotten the house just the way we wanted to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember, as I\u2019m walking around the neighborhood, and I\u2019m thinking, \u201cLife is pretty perfect\u201d; and I had this thought hit me, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t last like this for people.\u201d That\u2019s an unusual thought for me to have, because an optimistic guy, going, \u201cThis is how it\u2019s supposed to be\/life\u2019s supposed to go,\u201d\u2014right? I remember it hitting me, going, \u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, within the next two weeks, I went in on a Monday morning, and my boss said, \u201cWe\u2019re letting you go.\u201d Two weeks later, I was out to lunch with some friends; and Mary Ann calls and says, \u201cI just got back from the doctor; I\u2019m pregnant.\u201d [Laughter] All of a sudden, I\u2019m watching everything that had just seemed perfect start to\u2014it was piling up on top of us\u2014and it led us into the most stressful season we were in in our marriage. But it was almost like God had whispered ahead to me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody\u2019s going to have these seasons. Now, when the season becomes years upon years, that can get tiring\/that can get exhausting. That\u2019s where you go, \u201cHow long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?\u201d and start quoting Psalm 13 over and over to yourself.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have a couple joining us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> this week who have been through a prolonged season of one thing after another in their marriage and in their family. Jeff and Sarah Walton are here. Welcome, guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Jeff and Sarah live in Chicago; they\u2019re parents of four kids. We\u2019ve been hearing their story this week and hearing about how marriage kind of started off in a semi-idyllic start, and then your son was born, and there were health challenges with him that doctors couldn\u2019t diagnose. It was kind of regular acting out on his part; you didn\u2019t know what was going on physically, or spiritually, or emotionally with him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, in the midst of this, you have additional kids. You have a job, Jeff, where you\u2019re on call and having to be in and out of the family. Then, Sarah, you start to experience health issues that ultimately get diagnosed as Lyme disease.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019ve written about this in a book called <em>Together Through the Storms<\/em>, and you\u2019ve looked at the Book of Job in Scripture and said, \u201cWe see some parallels with what he went through and what we\u2019ve gone through.\u201d Take us to the point that your sickness\/what you were feeling, Sarah, was ultimately diagnosed and you realized you have a progressive illness that there\u2019s no cure for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes; it was after my fourth had been born. I had seen several doctors at that point. I had gotten various diagnoses, but none of them really seemed to do much. I\u2019d try treatments that they suggested, and it didn\u2019t really help that much. At the time, I met a girl who had just been diagnosed with Lyme disease; and she was actually the one I co-authored <em>Hope When It Hurts<\/em> with at that time. She was the one that suggested I go see her Lyme doctors.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said: \u201cI don\u2019t have Lyme disease. That doesn\u2019t sound like it fits what I have.\u201d So she said: \u201cJust go anyway. They look at everything. They\u2019ll be able to tell you kind of what\u2019s going on.\u201d I ended up doing that, because honestly I just didn\u2019t have any options; I didn\u2019t know what to do. The first day I got there, they looked at my symptoms, they did a bunch of tests; and they said, \u201cWell, we can\u2019t give you a diagnosis on paper right now because we don\u2019t have test results; but clinically, you have every symptom.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI left that day really a mixture of glad that I had some kind of answer, maybe, but terrified that: \u201cI don\u2019t know what this means. From what I\u2019ve learned and what I see, it doesn\u2019t exactly seem like something I should be happy about; because there isn\u2019t any clear answer as to what will get rid of it, if it can be healed or cured, or how to manage it best.\u201d I really didn\u2019t know a lot about it, other than knowing that it can affect all sorts of parts of your body; and it will probably stay with you for all of your life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>How long ago was this diagnosis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>That was probably maybe five years ago, and that was at the time that was really probably the pinnacle of our trials going on. There was\u2014the intensity with our son reached a point, where we were having to seek wisdom about whether we would admit him to the hospital, because\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is your son, who had been acting out with behavior issues, and had physiological issues along with that, and still undiagnosed at this point; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>Correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes, we had seen several different doctors. Really, it got the point where, for the safety of him and our family, we just didn\u2019t know if we were able to keep him in the home\u2014which, if you\u2019re a parent, you\u2019ll know how heart-wrenching that is\u2014to even think about. It felt like we were giving up on him in many ways. It felt like: \u201cAt what point do you feel like that\u2019s the right decision?\u201d I mean, there is no really clear answer to that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe sought the counsel of some pastors; and at the same time, things had gotten so bad with his job, where he was gone so much, and he wasn\u2019t actually really being compensated for how much he was working; so it was stressful for him as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was getting sicker, and sicker, and sicker. At the same time, our medical bills started to skyrocket, because a lot of the doctors we were seeing didn\u2019t take insurance; so we\u2019d pay a lot out of pocket. My son\u2019s doctors that we were seeing\u2014we were trying all sorts of supplements and things like that\u2014that we would have to pay out of pocket for. Those started to increase, and the pressure just started to build, and build, and build. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe had some of the elders from our church come over just to pray with us and to give us counsel. I think, before that, God had already begun to work in our hearts\u2014on: \u201cAre we willing to walk away from the comfort we have for the sake of our family?\u201d We had already been starting to <em>feel<\/em> some of that leading\u2014didn\u2019t know what that would look like\u2014but I think God had already been somewhat bringing that to our attention.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInterestingly, at that meeting, we decided, \u201cWell, let\u2019s wait on admitting right now.\u201d We decided, instead, to start trying some medication to see if that would alleviate anything. But the main takeaway was\u2014I think one of our pastors looked at Jeff and said, \u201cI think I would rather flip hamburgers than to lose my family right now,\u201d\u2014basically making the point that \u201cWhatever you lose financially, it will never be worth the cost of losing your marriage and your family, and spiritually honoring the Lord in this situation,\u201d\u2014I think that\u2019s what we needed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>He was saying, continuing in the job you were in, was that dangerous?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>I think they saw, from the outside perspective, how dire of a situation we were in. We were so backed up against a wall that\u2014we knew it; we knew it\u2014I mean, we were hanging on by a thread on every level you possibly\u2014my mental health, my physical health, my emotional health, and our marriage\u2014and even our kids. I mean, they were <em>suffering<\/em>, at this point, with everything that was happening in our home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I think a lot of what was going on, also, is\u2014for so long, we had been kind of that team that was just addressing and focusing on our kids\u2019 challenges\u2014and now, we were at a stage, where that was starting to bubble up to the top. Tensions that had been moved on from one day to the next, and the challenges of being able to communicate that\u2014because I was in and out of the home so often, we didn\u2019t really have the time or energy to really walk through that appropriately\u2014so now, that was the stuff that was really swept underneath the rug. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe lifted up the rug and that was seen now\u2014and all the ugliness, and all of the hurt, and things that had transpired over the last decade\u2014we were now wrestling with in front of us: \u201cHow do we move forward?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When a pastor says, \u201cI think I\u2019d rather flip burgers than to lose my family,\u201d were you at a point in your marriage where losing the marriage was something on the table?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>No; not from a standpoint of walking away from each other; and by God\u2019s grace, that did not ever come to our minds in the form of acting on it. During this time, it was the first time that I think we both saw, \u201cWow, this is where couples get to where they truly can walk away.\u201d While we didn\u2019t have, maybe, the best of relationship, we were constantly in God\u2019s Word, and pressing into His Word, and trusting solely in Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So there was never a time you thought about walking away from God?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Oh no; no\u2014Ahhhh! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014or faith, or\u2014you know, how was that?\u2014was the faith a struggle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I think, from the standpoint of wrestling with God and not to the point of denying who God was. I think one of the biggest things that\u2014you know, we address this in the book, of really getting into lamenting\u2014something that I\u2019ve, not until recently, really understood what that truly means. When you look at Job\u2014and when you look at, certainly, the Psalms, and Lamentations, and throughout the Bible\u2014of \u201cWhat does that really mean?\u2014to bring your pain and your confusion, and appropriately ask the \u2018Why?\u2019 questions and the \u2018How long?\u2019\u201d Job does this, incredibly, throughout much of the book. Lament truly has to bring you to the point, where it\u2019s coming full circle back to the trust, and \u201cWhat do I believe about God and the promises of God?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo answer your question, Dave, I don\u2019t think it was ever a point, where I was ready to pack it up on God\u2014not go to church, never open my Bible again\u2014and only by His grace and mercy did He give me the strength to wake up and to open His Word. I thank Him for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You had a sentence in your book, that I read last night, that kind of stopped me for a second. You say: \u201cSatan\u2019s mission remains the same. He wants to convince you to turn against God. His pathway to that can subtly lie in persuading you to turn against your spouse.\u201d You guys were at that point, where you had a decision to make, whether you were going to turn against one another or turn to God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes, yes. You know, what\u2019s really interesting\u2014throughout those years that we were struggling with our son\u2014there was clearly a very spiritual dynamic to it, which was very confusing to us. He would say things that no four- or five-year-old should know how to say. We would start praying, and he would start screaming at us. We would try to bring up conversations; and he\u2019d angrier, and he\u2019d throw things at us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe went through a period of time of just praying, \u201cLord, we have to trust that You are in control of this boy\u2019s life\/that You are greater than any enemy.\u201d It was clear he had a neurological disorder\u2014we weren\u2019t questioning that by any means\u2014but it was clear the enemy was also taking advantage of it. When we would have times that we were struggling, we would see that intensify. There was clearly a spiritual dynamic that was going on. We have seen that clearly over the years. There were times, when he [Jeff] would be gone more is when I would feel more of that battle go on; things would get harder at home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile I would say I agree that I didn\u2019t ever think of walking away from the Lord, I have certainly come to points, where I have really struggled with wondering: \u201cGod, I have no idea who You are. If You would let this happen\u2014I want to say I trust You, but I don\u2019t even know who I\u2019m trusting anymore.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor example, after\u2014so what we had done\u2014after that pastor\u2019s conversation, we ended up deciding that it was\/the best decision was to have him find a new job that would allow him to be home; because I needed the help. I think we both knew that was clear; the Lord put us in a position, where there was really no ignoring it anymore. We couldn\u2019t find our way around it, so he ended up searching for jobs. After a few months, he found a job. Not long after that\u2014well, what they had told us he would be taking as a pay cut would be a 40 percent pay cut, which we knew would be substantial; we\u2019d have to sell our home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>At this time we were in our dream home, which we thought we\u2019d be in forever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I think that challenge of really dying to self and something that we had been planning how to remodel our kitchen; we had plans for renovating the basement in this home\u2014and growing old\u2014and seeing the kids grow up in this home. Then, after four short years in that, all of this came to a screeching halt; and now it\u2019s a \u201cY\u201d in the road: \u201cAre we going to try and muster our own strength and do things on our own condition?\u201d or \u201cAre we going to follow where we see wise counsel, and seek God, and change jobs?\u201d I think that had to be done in order to restore our marriage relationship\u2014take the steps back to putting family first\u2014and not let that even go on one step further.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The physical challenges\u2014I don\u2019t want to minimize those at all\u2014but the reality of selling the dream home, changing to a new job\u2014there\u2019s an emotional toll, for a husband and a dad, who\u2019s thinking, \u201cThis is what I\u2019ve wanted to do for my wife and my kids; and now we\u2019re going to a rental house,\u201d and \u201cI have a new job\u2014and it\u2019s maybe not as prestigious a job and it\u2019s certainly not the income that I\u2019m capable of making\u2014but I need to be here to take care of my family.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI can see where <em>I would<\/em>, in that situation, start to go, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here with <em>me<\/em>?\u201d\u2014right?\u2014did you feel some of that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jeff: <\/strong>I certainly did. That even got <em>greater<\/em> by about a year-and-a-half into the job\u2014so transition into a new job, take a pay cut, swallow my pride\u2014and then the company went through a huge reorganization, and I was laid off. At that point, all the questions of: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWhy, God? We have sought Your purpose and Your will, prayed through this fervently\u2014thought it was good and we had Your blessing going to a new job\u2014and then, just a year-and-a-half later, the rug gets pulled out underneath us.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat hit us both really hard\u2014the reality of what that meant for our family\u2014again, as just a guy, and now the sole provider of our family\u2014we had no income. We had rising medical bills, the kids\u2019 challenges were still there, Sarah\u2019s health problems were still there. And now, where I could kind of escape and go to my job, I didn\u2019t have that anymore.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>If I can jump in, too\u2014throughout that year\/prior year was when we started seeing increasing symptoms in our kids of other ailments. Our girl behind our oldest started having joint pain consistently, our daughter below her was too tired to even ride her bike around the block. Her legs couldn\u2019t keep up with it; she was showing signs of fatigue; she was losing her hair. There were all sorts of things going on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThroughout that year, eventually, each child was diagnosed with Lyme as well. We found out that I could pass it gestation-ally. Suddenly, we were hit with: \u201cOh no; it\u2019s not just me anymore. Our entire family is now battling this,\u201d which means our entire family has to do these costly treatments that insurance doesn\u2019t cover. It was really not long after that that he lost his job. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo go back to what I was saying earlier, that is the point that I think I hit rock bottom.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014where you said, \u201cOkay, God\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes; I was like, \u201cI didn\u2019t sign up for this!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Oh, yes. I don\u2019t know if I would have lasted long as you did; but I can just be screaming at the ceiling, saying, \u201cWhat are You doing?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Yes; that was probably the point where I dealt with the most anger. It was a combination of things. It was\u2014once we were out of the intensity of the situation\u2014meaning he was home more so I, at least, had his help for some of the basic physical demands at home\u2014as that had happened, I was starting to have emotions surface\u2014that I was like, \u201cWhere are these coming from?\u201d All of a sudden, resentment started to come up, and anger started to come up. It was like, all of a sudden, I had enough of a break to start to <em>feel<\/em> what I hadn\u2019t been able to feel for <em>years<\/em> prior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI didn\u2019t know what was going on. I was like: \u201cWhy do I feel so resentful towards Jeff all of a sudden? Why am I feeling anger towards the Lord over all that He\u2019s allowed over these years?\u201d I kept having flashbacks of really bad moments with my son that I just couldn\u2019t shake. I would think about them all the time, and they\u2019d reignite those scary feelings.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat came to the point, then, where he lost his job; and honestly, I felt like the Lord was <em>cruel<\/em>; that\u2019s really what I struggled with. I believed He was in control; I really did. That\u2019s where it caused me to struggle with His <em>goodness<\/em>; because I knew, \u201cYou could have stopped this. I know we saw You clearly leading us; and yet, You led us to a worse situation,\u201d\u2014that I struggled to wrestle with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Is it still going on, at some level?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Well, I think to some degree, yes; because we\u2019ve continued to have layered trials that keep seeming to happen. But as I look back, I can definitely see how the Lord has carried me gradually to trusting Him at a deeper level, not by what I can see, but what I know is true in Scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI won\u2019t say\u2014it certainly wasn\u2019t overnight\u2014I was digging into the Word more and more. I realized it became more of my lifeline. I <em>needed<\/em> to be in Scripture every day\u2014it wasn\u2019t just to grow in knowledge\u2014it was purely because I needed to remind myself, every day, that the Lord was <em>seeing<\/em> me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Was there any Scripture that really hit you\/comforted you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sarah: <\/strong>Well, there were several of them. A couple that come to mind are hearing Paul talk about his losses and his gains in Philippians. Thinking about how Paul had had all of these incredible qualifications\u2014you know, he had been revered; he had been so high up\u2014and when Christ met him on that road and changed his life, he ended up getting to the point, where he was saying, \u201cAll of that I now consider as loss.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I started to think about that, in light of he saw Christ as gain, I could see that pattern happen in my life. The one loss after another\u2014what it ended up doing is\u2014every time I lost something, I had to come back to that foundational question, \u201cIs Christ enough if I lose this?\u201d It seemed that the Lord allowed that in every different area of life. It was my physical health: \u201cIf this is the condition I\u2019m going to be living in the rest of my life, do I believe that Christ will carry my through this?\u201d and \u201cDo I believe that there\u2019s still goodness in this?\u201d Each time I had to wrestle with that, I think it dug those faith roots just a little deeper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t think you often feel it in the moment. You know, it\u2019s usually, I think, when you look back and you see, \u201cI don\u2019t know how I survived that, but now I can see that the Lord was holding me up.\u201d I have so many moments, where I look back and I think: \u201cI can see how the Lord was with me in that room. He restrained me from reacting to something that I should have, in all fleshly reasons, reacted to.\u201d Or I was able to keep my composure in a really terrifying situation\u2014or even situations between Jeff and I\u2014we had to work through things, of course; and it was really ugly at times, but you can even see how the Lord preserved our friendship with each other. <br><br>There were so many marks of His grace that we could go on, and on, and on about; but I think that has been a <em>slow<\/em> progression of that, as I\u2019ve gone back to these truths over and over. And there are several more. We\u2019ve loved Job, because he was in that for so long. I mean, we noted in the book that the Book of Job would be much shorter if God had answered him quickly. [Laughter] Isn\u2019t that our lives?\u2014most of our life is waiting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, and you hear your story\u2014again, we\u2019re sitting on the outside, looking in\u2014you\u2019ve lived it; you are living it\u2014I hear it. Honestly, I\u2019ve heard a lot of hard stories; this one just keeps going. Honestly, the passage that comes to me, because I think you guys are evidence of Psalm 34: \u201cThe Lord is close to the brokenhearted and those who are crushed in spirit.\u201d As we listen to your story, we <em>know<\/em> the depth of the crushing of your spirit. Yet, there\u2019s light here. There\u2019s a Lord that is close, and that\u2019s the beauty of why you\u2019re letting people inside this story; because you\u2019re going to give them hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>A lot of people are going to find that as they get a copy of the book. In fact, we\u2019re making the book available this week to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners. If you\u2019d like a copy, you can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com; and if you can make a donation to help support this ministry, the book is our gift to you\/our way of saying, \u201cThank you for your ongoing support of the work of this ministry.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, you think about this: the conversation you\u2019ve heard today happened because another listener said, \u201cThis is important, and I want other people to be able to hear this.\u201d We\u2019re asking you to do the same for other listeners. If you would support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> so that this kind of practical biblical help and hope for marriages and families can be more readily accessible in more ways\u2014more platforms\/more channels\u2014for more people, we\u2019d love to send you, as a thank-you gift, your copy of Jeff and Sarah\u2019s book, <em>Together Through the Storms: Biblical Encouragement for Your Marriage When Life Hurts<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com to make a donation, or call 1-800-FL-TODAY; you can make a donation over the phone. Ask for your copy of Jeff and Sarah\u2019s book when you make that donation. Thank you for your support of the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We appreciate you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk more about how we can apply 1 Corinthians, \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tChapter 1\u2014how we can comfort others with the comfort we\u2019ve received\u2014how we can take the hard experiences of life and use those to be a help to others. Jeff and Sarah Walton will be back with us, again, tomorrow. We hope you can be back as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. 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