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

Sometimes, life blind-sides us…

… and we don’t see “the hit” coming. Hence the term “blind-side.”

But let’s be real about blind-sides…

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💥 Sometimes the collision occurs and takes US TOTALL by surprise… it’s truly something we couldn’t have seen.

💥 Other times, it’s because we’re not looking. We’re not paying attention…

💥 And then there are the things we stumble upon, things which just linger and leave us wondering…

In life, there are always layers and layers and layers…

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In this episode we continue Trent’s story…

This is part 3 of 4, and we discuss that transition from military life BACK to civilian life, noting some of the blind-sides that happened.

Note:

This “hits” are coming…

… how we respond to them really matters.

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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

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

Where you stand depends on where you sleep.

That might sound strange, but think about it this way…

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We’re all raised with a certain set of circumstances that all seem NORMAL to us. To others, they might not be normal at all.

Toss us into a different environment, and what we think of as routine behaviors (and even “rules”) might not work at all.

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This is important.

The “rules” of the past that you’re operating on, even if they don’t work where you currently are…

They aren’t necessarily bad.

In fact, they might have served you well during a different chapter of your life.

Or they might be the EXACT rules you would need in a different time and place…

But, sometimes, we need to adjust— especially when those rules no longer serve us.

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And that occurs more often than you might think…

👉 This is part 2of a 4-part series with Trent Redwine, the Executive Director of Shepherds Fold.

We talk about “reading the present in light of the past.”

In extreme cases it looks like PTSD… when trauma is involved.

But, we can ALL do it at ANY TIME. And, when new life-situations are involved, it’s important that we take stock of where we are, who will be impacted by our actions, and respond accordingly…

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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

Referenced episode = The Barking Spider = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149196514

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