Behind The Stack: 5 Things I Learned In the Hardest Year of My Life

May these help you keep going, friend

I wouldn’t have chosen this past year.

And I certainly wouldn’t repeat it for anything.

But I am trying, with all that I have, to grasp the spiritual fruit that God grew in our family's various trials (grief, family stress, house flooding, mental health crisis, etc).

There are some lessons that only rise up from the valley floor. These aren’t truths I picked up from a stage or read in a book. They’re truths I met face to face when the lights went out, the prayers ran dry, and Jesus stayed anyway.

Here are five things I learned in the hardest year of my life.