What do you do when your life collapses in slow motion?
When your career, your health, and even your spouse are taken from you… and God doesn't intervene?

In this brutally honest episode, Laura Silverman walks us through a journey most people would never survive. A Stanford Law graduate and federal prosecutor, Laura was on the fast track—driven, brilliant, purpose-filled. Then, at 30 years old, a rare and still-undiagnosed neurological disorder struck without warning.

The world began to spin.
Her body shut down.
Her independence vanished.
And for three years, she was fully bedridden.

Doctors threw out guesses but no answers.
Treatments made her worse.
Opinions shifted from "rare disease" to "maybe it's psychological," adding insult to devastation.

But the suffering didn't stop there.

In the middle of her illness, Laura met and married Matt, a man fighting his own battle with terminal intestinal cancer. Their love story is unreal—two people in the fire learning how to suffer together. Matt lived three years longer than doctors predicted, and his faith in the face of death shaped Laura in ways she's still uncovering.

This episode is not a sentimental Christian story.
It is a theological gut punch.

Laura speaks openly about:

• Losing her legal career at the height of success
• Fighting bitterness, anger, and spiritual confusion
• Wrestling with God on a bedpan while the world spun around her
• Watching her husband slowly die with joy on his face
• Learning that God sometimes says "no"
• The difference between prosperity thinking and biblical reality
• Why suffering deepens theology in ways books never can
• How her memoir, Singing Through Fire, became the redemption of her story
• What it means to trust God when He gives you the opposite of what you prayed for

This is the theology of pain—not the sanitized version, but the one forged in hospital rooms, sleepless nights, vertigo, grief, and unanswered prayers. If you've suffered, are suffering, or love someone who is, Laura's wisdom will feel like someone finally telling the truth.

Suffering didn't destroy her faith.
It refined it.
And it will refine yours too.

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