Lessons on living and dying from one who did both well
For me (Norman Hubbard), it’s an emotional start to a new season of the podcast. Today is the 7th anniversary of Katie’s passing, and it falls very close to the time of year when she was diagnosed with recurrent breast cancer ten years ago. Opening up her journals and this chapter of our life together… Continue reading “Even There” S03 | E01
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Katie closed her journal entries for 2009 by reflecting on a December that was a fitting end to a hard year! Everyone in our family got sick with strep the week before Christmas. We were so sick we could not even celebrate Katie’s birthday (which happened to be our anniversary). However, everyone was back on… Continue reading “Deeply Happy and Profoundly Emotional” S02 | E23
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In September and October of 2009, things were looking up for Katie after months of feeling bad from cancer treatment. Consistent with her custom of talking with God about everything, Katie looked up because things were looking up. She offers a tremendous prayer where she reflects on God’s abundance and asks him to draw her… Continue reading When Things Are Looking Up, Look Up S02 | E22
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As Katie Hubbard geared up for a new school year, she found herself confronted with so many negative thoughts about the challenges of life with cancer, kids, and limited resources. As she listed her troubles in her journal, she prayed for the courage to trust God in the face of trials and uncertainty. “You have… Continue reading “Promises for Times of Storm” S02 | E21
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Katie Hubbard was recovering strength after several rounds of chemotherapy for breast cancer. Though her progress wasn’t without setbacks, she was looking ahead and looking back on the lessons she had learned: how trials produce character; how God has to be trusted to hold all things together; and how God is big enough to do… Continue reading “I Am Planted In The House of the Lord” S02 | E20
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Katie Hubbard never quit meditating on what it meant to walk with God in faith. The pressure of a cancer diagnosis, the challenges of chemotherapy, and the worry about her future just made the question more insistent in her mind: What does it mean for a person to walk with God in faith?
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As Katie Hubbard regained her strength after chemotherapy, she faced all the fears the future might hold for her. More importantly, she turned to the Lord and his word to figure out how to live forward. She was resolved to hear God and trust him, no matter what, taking her cue from the greatest story… Continue reading “Dare To Trust Him, Dare To Follow Him” S02 | E18
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After months away from her personal journal during chemotherapy, Katie Hubbard reopened a dialogue with the Lord about his power and our weakness. She wrestled with her own anxiety about money and wondered whether she truly trusted the Lord. In characteristic Katie Hubbard fashion, she considers how effortlessly God sends abundant rain and concludes, “You… Continue reading “You Work Out Of Abundance” S02 | E17
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Katie Hubbard excelled at passing on perspective, even when chemotherapy was making her miserable. As she chronicles her final round of chemo, with all its lows and woes, she helps us enter into the valley. That’s one of the gifts she gave as she blogged through this journey. She helped fellow-travelers with cancer and friends… Continue reading Perspective On Chemo For Fellow-Travelers S02 | E16
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This is quite simply one of the best podcasts you will listen to as Katie Hubbard wrestles through the darkness of cancer into the light of God. This entry from her blog is nearly miraculous, because she was at a physical low point from chemo and fighting through dense mental fog. Even words were hard… Continue reading “God Has Flattened Me On My Back And Said, ‘Look Up!’” S02 | E15
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