A Lifetime of Suffering and Healing - Loren Fritze

A Lifetime of Suffering and Healing - Loren Fritze

Tristan interviews his good friend, counselor, and pastor, Loren Fritze. Loren shares about the great sufferings he has faced over many years and how God has brought healing and redemption in his life and work. 00:00 - Introduction 01:17 - Growing up and Chronic Illness 05:26 - Close to Death at 18 07:25 - Facing Death Again with Horrible Injury 12:34 - Never Going to Walk Again 15:22 - Long Rehab 17:07 - Keeping Perspective 17:50 - Miracle of Walking Again 19:44 - Returning Home 20:18 - More Suffering, Boils and Fevers 22:03 - A Month in Isolation, the Darkest Time 25:09 - The Year of Trials 25:37 - Beginning to Heal and College 28:02 - Two More Years of Great Sickness 31:00 - Becoming a Counselor 31:32 - God prepares us through suffering 32:27 - Dark Night of the Soul 34:16 - The Wounded Healer 37:25 - Counseling and Gettiing to the Root 39:56 - God Making Sense of our Suffering 43:24 - God Uses our Suffering

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Internet, Suffering, and Healing Communities

Tristan talks about the good and the bad of the internet and our need to find flesh-and-blood, healing relationships.

Moving, Smile Again, and Season 2

Tristan and Kayla reconnect and talk about what's going on in their lives. https://smileagaingriefministries.org

Men and Grief

Tristan is flying solo this week, so he talks about the struggles that men often face going through grief and gives practical advice on how husbands and wives can learn to grieve and go through hard things together. 00:00 - Lonely Tristan 00:25 - Men and Women and Grief 01:11 - Scary Statistic on Divorce and Grief 03:44 - Generalizations and Stereotypes 05:49 - A Time Not to Grieve 08:46 - A Time for Grief Must Come 10:47 - Not Knowing How to Deal with Tragedy 12:37 - Avoiding our Inadequacies 14:16 - Push Through your feelings of Inadequacy 16:58 - When Tristan’s Life was Falling apart 20:12 - A Suggestion of Wives