Have you ever walked through a season where it wasn’t necessarily one big thing — it was just one thing after another?

The unexpected bill. The hard conversation. The appointment you didn’t want to make. The kid who needs you. The work deadline. The thing you thought would finally get easier … but somehow didn’t.

Eventually, even the strongest among us can find ourselves thinking, Lord, can I please just catch a break?

In this episode, Kaitlin Chappell Rogers joins Meredith and Kaley to talk about what it looks like to keep going when life keeps wearing you down. Through her own experience of what she calls “a thousand little cuts,” Kaitlin reminds us that biblical perseverance isn’t about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps or finding a little more strength somewhere inside ourselves. It’s learning to depend on the strength and grace of God, who has never stopped holding us.

You’ll learn:

• Why coming to the end of your own strength doesn’t mean you’ve failed. 
• How knowing the end of the story changes the way you live in the messy middle.
• One simple practice for the days when everything feels like too much.

Resources From This Episode:

• Get Kaitlin Chappell Rogers’ new book, She Just Won’t Quit. If you’re tired of feeling like you have to manufacture the strength to keep going, Kaitlin will help you discover what everyday perseverance looks like when it’s rooted in the faithfulness of God.
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• Capstone Wellness provides residential treatment and custom therapy intensives that retrace hurt to the roots in a Christ-centered environment. You can learn more by visiting Capstonewellness.com/proverbs31 today.
• Click here to download a copy of the episode transcript.

Want More on This Topic? 

• Listen to this Therapy & Theology conversation where Lysa TerKeurst; counselor Jim Cress; and resident theologian, Dr. Joel Muddamalle, talk through what to do when God seems silent and healing is slow.