Circumstances don’t dictate your destiny.

The current reality doesn’t determine your calling…

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Romans 11:29 tells us the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

He doesn’t invoke a purpose and then withdraw it…

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Romans 8:28 tells us all things work together for the good…

NOT all things ARE good— some aren’t. The things we do that reap whirlwinds of chaos are (usually) emphatically NOT good. But all things

CAN STILL work together for the good…

God can use even those situations…

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And then there’s this…

Sometimes, the past pain-points became the very platform God uses as part of our primary life-purpose, so that we can serve others walking the same terrain we’ve traversed.

Rather than simply spouting facts and figures, we hold an actual compass, a tried and true means of navigating the “land in between” where they are and where they want to be…

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This is part 4 of Trent’s story…

… in which we dialogue about his journey through prison, how he saw God move WHILE he was there, and where God took him next…

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The Shepherds Fold Annual Luncheon = www.ShepherdsFold.org/events

The Shepherds Fold program = www.ShepherdsFold.org/program

Amplify = www.AmplifyOnline.info/0

GY6, Soul and Spirit Hurts eBook + audio = www.GY6.online/SSHH

Adverse Childhood Experiences Q&A = www.GY6.online/ACE

What is Moral Injury = https://www.gy6.online/blog/ten

PTSD compared to Moral Injury, short video = https://www.gy6.online/blog/which

Suicide and Moral Injury = https://www.gy6.online/blog/suicide

Episode one of The Fold, Trent’s podcast = https://www.shepherdsfold.org/podcasts/the-fold/episodes/2149204992

Suicide hotline = dial *988