Glorifying God in the End of Life, with Colleen Chao

Can God use terminal cancer for His glory? Colleen Chao is living with everlasting hope, even as she faces a terminal diagnosis. Be inspired by her powerful story of hope and how she’s choosing to glorify God in every moment. 

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Colleen Chao: We're all on death row. This is all a reality for all of us. But it's so that Jesus's life will be displayed. I think sometimes we cling so tightly to our life and to our health and to our comfort that we miss out on displaying Jesus' life because ours is in the way

Portia Collins: Hello Grounded sisters. I am not sure whether to say a belated Happy Thanksgiving or Merry Christmas. I just know this, the holidays are on us. And we're still here to keep you grounded. I'm Portia Collins.

Dannah Gresh: You better believe we are. I'm Dannah Gresh. Grounded is a live videocast and podcast brought to you by the team of Revive Our Hearts. We're here to give you a weekly infusion of hope and perspective. You know what, Portia, I think I'm gonna go with Happy Advent, because it officially started yesterday.

Portia: Well, Dannah, Advent is interesting. Some people think it's about counting forward to Christmas morning. But the early Roman Christians, the first to actually ever celebrate Advent, they were looking to an even bigger event, past the Baby in the manger. They were looking to the second coming of Christ. They knew that would be the ultimate and final victory over sin and death.

Dannah: Oh, that gives me chills. Thank you for the Advent lesson, Portia, that was good stuff. And actually, this morning, we want to turn you towards that ultimate victory in this very consumer-driven, very broken world—one that lacks the peace that at least I so often need and crave. You too probably feel that. I want to invite you to slow down and turn your heart toward the ultimate hope, a hope that overcomes every fear, every doubt, all the pain you ever have known or ever will know—the hope of Jesus Christ and His ultimate victory over death.

Portia: Amen, I definitely need that reminder. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this episode is going to unfold to be something truly special. But one thing, my sweet friends Robyn and Ray McKelvey will be with us this morning. Whoop, whoop. I'm super excited about that.

Dannah: It is always a good day when Robyn and Ray join us. But you know, I am also excited about our featured guest today, Colleen Chao. She's the author of a children's book on suffering. And ironically, she's actually living under the shadow of stage four terminal cancer. But here's the thing. She has cancer, but I can tell you, it does not have her. Jesus does. Colleen is living in ultimate hope. I promise you that this woman is one of the brightest, shiniest beacons of hope that you are ever going to meet on planet Earth. I have been deeply touched by her life, and I've only known her for a few weeks. You are going to love her, too. And you're going to be touched by her.

Portia: Absolutely, absolutely. Now, I know you're sitting there and either you don't recognize Colleen’s name, and you have no idea just how special this episode is about to become. Or you may be thinking, I do recognize it now, because you were at our conference in Indianapolis where we debuted a very special video featuring Colleen’s surprisingly inspiring battle with cancer.

Dannah: Yeah. Portia, I cannot stop watching that video. I've probably watched it a dozen times. And every time I think this is gonna be the time it doesn't get me and I don't need the tissues, but it never happens.

Portia: Yeah, me too. Me too. Well, Colleen is here today with an update. But before we hear from her Dannah, let's go directly into getting grounded in God's Word. I think that may explain why this episode is so important today.

Grounded in God’s Word: John 21:18–19 (9:49)

Dannah: I would love to help us get grounded in God's Word. Just quickly if you want, you can open your Bible to John 21. I came across a verse recently in this chapter of the Bible that made me think about the end of my life very differently. I'm going to read to you from John 21 in a second. 

But here's the scene. It's right after our dear Lord and Savior Jesus has both died and risen from the grave. He's just appeared to seven of disciples and made them breakfast. Jesus isolated Peter for a conversation. You know, that disciple that hid when they took Jesus away, the one who abandoned Christ in His hour of greatest need. 

Well, what does Jesus want to talk to Peter about? He doesn't want to talk about those moments when Peter abandoned him, and not about that rooster that crowed three times. No, Jesus wants to talk about the love relationship that He has with Peter, and to invite that disciple that abandoned Him, who may just think he doesn't stand a chance of serving the Messiah, to lead His church to feed His sheep. And then Jesus says something that takes a little interpretation. Let me read to you: John 21, verses 18 and 19. 

“Truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”

He's talking to Peter. And then in parentheses, this verse says, 

“(This he [Jesus] said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, ‘Follow me.’”

Now, in those verses, Jesus said something to Peter. It would show just how courageous that once fearful disciple would become for the gospel. Peter, the one who'd hidden from fear of death, Jesus said, you will stretch out your hands and another will dress you and carry you to where you don't want to go. What does that mean? 

Well, according to tradition, Peter was crucified defending the name of Christ, but upside down. He was crucified upside down because he did not feel worthy to die the same way that Jesus did. But he did die. Peter did die fearlessly. I mean, think about that, what a change of heart. 

And then after Jesus prophesied this kind of death, the Scripture reads, “(This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.)” Peter was not just going to die, Peter was going to glorify God in His death. Think about that. I mean, until I was really meditating on that passage a few weeks ago, I had never really considered glorifying God in the end of my life. I mean, I think about glorifying Him with the way I live, with who I love, with how I work. But you and I, we can also glorify God in the way we face death. In fact, if you really think about it, the Great Commission, the work of the Church is, after all, preparing people to be ready to die. 

Well, you and I have the great privilege as believers, of inviting souls into relationship with Jesus Christ and giving them the ability to face the end of life with everlasting hope. Think about that. You might be saying, “Well, what does that look like?” I'm glad you asked, sit back, prepare to be inspired. And you might want to grab some of those tissues, because we're going to show you a little clip of that video we mentioned earlier, here's a little snippet of Colleen’s story.

Video: Colleen Chao

Colleen: “Be still my soul, the Lord is on my side.”I was 34 when I married and then almost immediately got pregnant. And then when I was 35, I had my son Jeremy. Waiting so long for marriage and then to have a child later has been part of this grieving process, part of what I've had to wrestle through. To be faced with this terminal diagnosis, I don't get to finish my motherhood task. I'm going to be interrupted midstream. 

We've always been very honest with Jeremy, very upfront, very transparent from the first diagnosis to this one. So, I told him the doctors had said it was stage four, and I gave him the timeline. I just said, what a gift that we have. God's given me the gift of some more time with you.

Jeremy Chao: Yeah, it was very hard. Like stage four cancer is very tough, and I was just really sad.

Colleen: We chatted a little, and then he walked out of the room and I heard him weeping. So, I went into the bedroom and curled up next to him and just comforted and cuddled him, and he just wept. Jeremy's story requires that I go before the task is finished, and there's going to be glory in that. “Through thorny ways leads to the joyful end.”

Grounded in Death: Colleen Chao (14:01)

Dannah: I did warn you that you were going to need tissues. Oh, precious Colleen Chao, you are a gift to the body of Christ. Thank you for being with us today. Hello.

Colleen: It's such a joy to be with you both this morning. Thanks for having me.

Portia: Look at that big smile. Oh, Colleen, can you give us an update on your fierce fight with cancer?

Colleen: Well, the latest is I'm in-between treatments. We're kind of marrying some natural stuff with chemo. And so, we just finished a 12-round of chemo. And now we're going to go into hormone therapy. The goal is just to buy some more time. It just sounds so weird. But that's the goal right now, to get some more time. It's doing what it's supposed to at this point. So, we're grateful.

Dannah: You know, you have one of the brightest and most beautiful smiles of anyone I've ever met. And if you watch the whole video, which you can find on our website, in the episode notes, you'll want to see that whole 10 minutes of Colleen’s story. You end the video with such laughter. You call it, I think, a cackling laughter.

Colleen: Totally.

Dannah: What do you call it? Sass and laughter. How are you doing? We videotaped you in August. You said that was a goal, that you would maintain your sass and your laughter? How's that going, a few months later?

Colleen: Yeah. God is so gracious Dannah. It's amazing. The things that I pray for in the darkest days, He gives so abundantly and usually not in my timing. It'll show up a little later than I think it should. But He's just been so gracious to give so much laughter. It's definitely woven in with some dark moments that are just ugly and messy and awful. But I think that highlights the gift of the laughter even more. There's a beautiful mix of emotions and moments. But I'm just so grateful when I get to laugh so hard. That's Jesus, that's not me.

Portia: Amen, amen, amen. Well, you have most certainly touched my life. I know that you've touched so many lives, and you are glorifying God in the end of your life. I just want to know, what is the secret to living with such joy, rather than bitterness and frustration?

Colleen: That’s such a good question. I'm sure both of you would agree that it's the years and years and the weeks and days and months that lead up to different kinds of suffering—big or small—that prepare us to have joy and Jesus, and to experience the supernatural moments of laughter and cancer. It's rooting myself in the Word. I started reading the Word, the Lord caught my heart on fire for His Word when I was 11. And honestly, there have been very few days that I've not been in the Word in one way or another. I'm 45 now, and it's just such a sweet thing. 

You don't have to start when you're 11. But I just see the richness and the depth and the power of the Word in my life; and not just to have head knowledge, but to meet Jesus in His Word, and to experience His presence and experience His truth. That works day in and day out. It's real, and it's powerful, and it's alive and active. So, I just see so much of that is the daily steeping experience of the presence of God through His Word and through prayer.

Portia: I know there are no perfect answers, but that was totally the perfect answer. Give me if I may . . . As you know, we think here at Revive Our Hearts that you are a part of the Revive Our Hearts family. 

Colleen: Ah, thanks!

Portia: You are, you are. 

Dannah: It’s true.

Portia: How has this ministry been a part of preparing you for this journey?

Colleen: Well, it's so neat as I've thought more and more about when did I first start connecting with Revive Our Hearts? My mom gave me a book by Nancy when I was probably 19, 20, 21. I'm really bad with dates, so I could be off. But right around there. It was on having a devotional or daily time in the Word and . . .

Dannah: A Place of Quiet Rest

Colleen: Yes, that was it. That was totally it. And then, Dannah, I read your book on singleness and purity. I forget that title. What was that?

Dannah: Well, have a few, maybe And the Bride Wore White.

Colleen: Yup, And the Bride Wore White. So those are the earliest books I remember way back. And then, I was digging through files maybe a year or two ago and found a Life Action Ministries catalog or magazine.

Dannah: That's our parent ministry. 

Colleen: Yes, there's all these little roots of Revive Our Hearts in my life. Over time, just the different articles and the blogs and the speakers here and there just that have faithfully over time ministered to my heart. I just love that the ministry has been faithful in this day and age that's just rich to my heart, that it's still ministering to me more than two decades later, what a gift.

Dannah: Praise the Lord. You know, we're glad to be a very small part of your very brave journey. As I'm sitting here with you, I'm thinking of friends I have who are facing some scary things this Christmas season. I have a friend who is facing cancer. I have a friend whose daughter is fighting leukemia. There are people who are facing their first holiday without someone they love. Maybe someone they lost to COVID or in a tragic accident. Death is impacting us and looking us in the face. Others are praying for miraculous healings for friends. I wonder if you could share some Scripture that's been giving you hope in recent days.

Colleen: Yeah, 2 Corinthians actually. I was just looking at this this way. There's so many Scriptures, but 2 Corinthians has been so rich. I've listened to it again and again and again. It says, 

“We always carry the death of Jesus in our body so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body, for we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that Jesus's life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh.” (4:11) 

And that Scripture is so rich to me. And our world is desperate to see this right? Our bodies, constantly, are being given over to death. We're all on death row, right? In a sense, this is reality for all of us. But it's so that Jesus's life will be displayed. I think sometimes we cling so tightly to our life and to our health and to our comfort that we miss out on displaying Jesus's life, because ours is in the way.

Dannah: Wow.

Colleen: That's just strengthened me so much through this journey.

Dannah: Hmm, what a good truth.

Portia: This is why I love you so much. Because it's like I can just sit at your feet forever. You teach me so much. 

Dannah: Yeah.

Colleen: Right back, it’s mutual. 

Portia: So, at this point in your faith journey and in your cancer battle, what do you believe about death?

Dannah: Yeah, give us some hope and perspective on the topic of death.

Colleen: It's life-changing, you know, I mean, that's an understatement. It just changes everything. I've had chronic illness issues, and my son has had such huge health complications that for 12 years since my issue started, I've had a more keen sense of eternity because of the physical suffering. But when you hear a doctor say, and they're not God, they don't have the final word, but it is crazy to hear, “You don't have a lot of time on this earth. We're going to try to buy you some time with some medicine.” That is shockingly stark reality that keeps you awake at night at first. It's that idea of I am so mortal, and I am held together by a God who holds my dates, right. He's holding me together until He calls me home. I am fragile, and I am weak and limited and mortal.

So, that perspective makes everything seem sacred and everything seems light and fluffy sometimes too. I look around and I'm like, who cares about my hair—things that are so important on the daily for us. It totally transforms how I look at each thing each day. That is an incredible treasure, but it's also weighty and hard. So, it's a mix of all kinds of layers, of emotions, and perspective right now that I'm asking Jesus to teach me in and to be faithful in.

Dannah: Well, I have two thoughts. One is, I am profoundly challenged to look past my very superficial problems\ and ask the Lord to give me the perspective that you have, the eyes that you have, the heart that you have. And you rock a ball cap, Colleen, like nobody else. 

Portia: She does. 

Dannah: You are so beautiful in that ball cap. I can see that your body is frail. But somehow you look so big and beautiful. And you just inspire me today. 

Colleen: So encouraging. 

Dannah: You know, sometimes we ask our special guests to pray for us. But this morning, I want to change it up a little bit. I want to ask our whole family of Grounded sisters to intercede on your behalf. If you could tell me in one short sentence how you want us to pray for you? What is the biggest thing that you want to petition God for? Just beg God for the gift that you want this Christmas season. How should we pray?

Colleen: I want to love Him more and more and more and more. I don't want to stop loving Him and growing and going deeper with Him. That's a real fear that somehow all of this stuff would crowd out my greatest love relationship, so pray that I will love Him and that love would overflow to the unbelievers in my life, to my family, to my neighbors. That that love would be real and growing and vibrant.

Dannah: You see, that is not what I thought you would be asking Heaven for. And that's why I need to continue to ask the Lord. Father, give me the eyes that Colleen has for this life, and for death. 

Lord Jesus, we just lift our sister up to you. We love her. She has changed us. She has given us a hunger for the Word. She has given us a taste for Christ, a hunger for Your presence. She has given us a taste for heaven. And she has exemplified in such a special way glorifying You to her last breath. And that is her prayer, that she would live for Jesus and love Jesus until her last breath, and only You know when that is. But father, my flesh wants to pray something different for this morning. But she's asking You to glorify You to the very last moment. And so, Lord, we ask You for that in her life. And I will add my fleshly request that You would just touch her body heal her give her all the days that she's craving with her sweet precious boy and her husband in the mighty name of Jesus, we all pray together. Amen.

Portia: Yeah. Totally not keeping it together over here. Y'all know, I'm the weepy one. 

Dannah: It's okay, sometimes. That's very okay. Portia. Thank you for being with us this morning, my friend. We love you.

Colleen: Thanks for having me. I love you both so much.

Dannah: Thank you for sharing your laughter with us, Colleen. 

Good News: Life after Death (31:34)

Well, you know, Portia, you're sitting there with your tears. This might seem like an odd time. But we want to pause to get grounded in good news. We usually present this portion of gratitude at the top of our episode. But today, we have the best good news in the whole world. So, we saved it. 

Portia: Yes. 

Dannah: Portia, tell us what it is.

Portia: Well, you know what the good news is this, death is not the end. I think Colleen has done a beautiful job of reminding us of that today. For the Christian, death is not something to be feared. Jesus came to conquer death, hell, and the grave. There is no better news than that. If you believe in Him, then death is merely a transition from this world to our true heavenly home. 

And this is the promise of the prophet Isaiah being fulfilled into Jesus Christ, in that it reads, “He will swallow up death for ever. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces and the reproach of his people. He will take away from all the earth. For the Lord has spoken.” This is Isaiah 25:8. 

This Advent season, we invite you to believe that good news and to live like you believe it, to live like Colleen, even in the face of death. She is a woman who can only be described as living in freedom and experiencing the fullness of Christ. And she is certainly fruitful. 

Dannah: Well, I see what you did there, Portia, because you've just sort of listed the mission of Revive Our Hearts, and that is to help women experience the freedom of Christ, the fullness of Christ, and the fruitfulness of Christ, no matter what shadow may be looming over their lives.

Portia: Yes, absolutely. And wow, we're sharing good news. Let me tell you, just how many lives are being touched by Revive Our Hearts, alright.

Dannah: Do tell. 

Portia: So, check this out. 63 million times, a woman from somewhere around the globe listened to Revive Our Hearts’ digital content to grow our faith in Christ. 63 million times!

Dannah: Wow! I can't even wrap my brain around that number. That's our number for the end of year as we approach the end of year. That's where we're at. And it's not just English-speaking women. Revive Our Hearts is available internationally to share the gospel in languages like Farsi, Portuguese, German, to give women all over the globe hope and perspective about death. 

Now, most of those 63 million, over 83% of them are women listening to our flagship daily program, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. But you are Grounded sisters. So, here's some good news just for our little bunch. We're not so little anymore. 85,407. That is the average monthly audience for Grounded! Wow, amazing! 

Portia: Amazing. 

Dannah: I'm not telling you that to brag, but to celebrate, to celebrate that we get to share the hope and the good news of Jesus Christ every week, right here on Grounded, and to share the ultimate victory over death and hell. We just thank you for being a part of it. 

Portia: Yes. 

Dannah: Thank you for listening faithfully.

Hope for the End of Life: Robyn and Ray McKelvy (33:14)

Portia: Yes, absolutely. And you know who else has been a part of? 

Dannah: Who’s that?

Portia: Our dear friends, Robyn and Ray McKelvy. 

Dannah: Yes!

Portia: They are here with us today to offer some practical thoughts on glorifying God at the end of life. Hi, guys!

Dannah: Hey!

Ray McKelvy: Hello!

Dannah: So glad to have you again today. 

Portia: Yeah.

Robyn McKelvy: We're grateful to be here. And I'm grateful that Ray gets to be here.

Portia: I know. It's been a while, Ray.

Ray: It has been a while, too long.

Dannah: Did you get some gray hairs since the last time I saw you? 

Ray: A lot of gray hair. 

Dannah: I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have, but you're looking fine. You're looking fine.

Ray: I've got gray hair since we're talking about the end of life. Yeah.

Dannah: Well, give us some hope and perspective. 

Ray: Yes.

Robyn: It's our pleasure to do it. We want to just share even something that the Lord has been teaching us for a long time. As a wife, ladies, I want you to know that we've been preparing for the inevitable and inevitable is surely going to come. But the inevitable day when Ray or I are called home to eternity with our heavenly Father, how do we prepare for this? How do you prepare for one of the hardest calls God could ask you to live out? 

And for me, I must first remember that God is always with me. He will never leave me. He will never forsake me. That's a promise that He's made to me. And what I do know is my heavenly Father will never break His promises. 

Another thing that I do on a daily basis is I live out the promise I made to Ray 33 years ago. I promise to love and honor him for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death parts us. And every day of my life. I get to physically practice my love for Ray in that tangible way. 

And because of that vow I made to him, I continue to do this until he or I pass off at the end of our lives. I have two examples of this. I watched my dad do this with my mom. Hardest thing that we had to go through as a family. But my mom showed her signs of dementia, years before her Alzheimer's diagnosis. I watched my dad care for her in every way possible. He was committed to her, he bathed her, he fed her, he clothed her. He made sure she had her vitamins every day. Those are some of the things that I watched him do. That was his marital commitment to my mom, until death parted them. 

Ray: Yeah. And you know, I tell you, it's hard for me to talk about this. I'm one of these people, I'd rather not even think about the aspect of the end of our lives. And even as a pastor, I know that we have such hope in Christ. But even with that, we live in a culture where aging, suffering, and death are not even valued or even talked about. Everything's about youth and being young and vital.

I keep a journal. And last year I just wrote in here, “I feel the pains of aging” is what I wrote. I've had a terrible time with carpal tunnel, arthritis in my hands and fingers and the reality that more days are in the rearview mirror than those ahead. And little did I know, just a few days later, we would all get COVID in our home except for Robyn. Seven out of nine of us got COVID. 

And so, I was quarantined in my office. I remember writing in my journal again, “I am struggling with aging, struggling, because it's a signal.” But after listening to Colleen, it just I was struggling with the fact I may not be around to see my grandchildren become adults. And I want my wife and I to be together forever. In that way and just seeing how the reality of life is . . . but our hope in Christ.

Robyn: That's right. We already cried with Colleen’s story. So, you're gonna get more tears. I had the example of my dad taking care of my mom. And then, Ray and I have been speakers with FamilyLife. They did a video on this guy. And boy, his video really touched our hearts. I want it to be my mantra as I follow him as he followed Christ. 

This guy was the president of Columbia Bible college, and it's now called Columbia International University. He was also the author of A Promise Kept. His name is Robertson McQuilkin. He gave up his presidency of this Bible College in order to take care of his wife. And here are his words, I want you to hear his words, 

“The decision was made in a way 42 years ago, when I promised to care for Mariel in sickness and in health till death do us part. So, as I told the students and faculty, as a man of my word, integrity has something to do with it. But so does fairness. She has cared for me fully and sacrificially all these years. And if I cared for her the next forty years, I would still not be out of her debt. Duty, however, can be grilled and stoic, but there is more. I love Mariel. She has been a delight to me, her childlike dependence and confidence in me, her warm love, occasional flashes of the wit I used to relish, her happy spirit and tough resilience in the face of her continual distressing frustration. I don't have to care for her. I get to. It’s a high honor to care for so wonderful a person” Robertson McQuilkin

Ray: I can tell you, as we think about glorifying God at the end of life, it is a privilege to be satisfied in God. It is a privilege to suffer for Christ. It is a privilege to worship Him. And so that's how I want to end our days. Our days are numbered. We don't know how long we have together. But I want to join Colleen in saying, “I want to love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. I want to end my days well, with this woman right here, with whatever amount of time that we have.” 

Robyn: Amen.

Dannah: Amen.

Portia: Oh, listen, I already knew that you guys were gonna drop just the practical wisdom bombs on us. But I think you over delivered this time. Thank you so much for being with us. 

Robyn: Thank you. 

Portia: Thank you for just sharing your heart. I love you guys so much. 

Ray: Thank you, guys. 

The Good Stuff (43:54)

Portia: Alright, it is time for us to give you the good stuff. And this week, instead of calling it a tool, We want to give you a gift.

Dannah: It's Christmas time, right? We should give gifts. 

Portia: It is, and if you're worried or fearful about death, here's an interesting fact. I used to have a crazy fear of death, like to the point of hyperventilating.

Dannah: Wow.

Portia: I think that this will be helpful to you, especially if you're not sure where you'll spend eternity with God. We want to give you this book, okay. The title of it is How You Can Be Sure You'll Spend Eternity with God. And this is from Pastor Erwin Lutzer. This book will help you experience the hope that you heard in Colleen’s voice, this book is our gift to you. If this is something that you want to explore, we encourage you to visit ReviveOurHearts.com. Scroll to contact us to email us about that book. How Can You Be Sure You'll Spend Eternity with God? Or you can always pick up the phone and call us 1–800–569–5959 That's it! 

Dannah: Awesome. I hope some of you will take advantage of that if you really want to know for sure that you'll spend eternity with God. But if that wasn't the free gift you need, we have another one ready to give you for giving Tuesday . . . three actually, we're giving away three gifts. 

The first Tuesday after Thanksgiving we like to celebrate your generosity with a massive giveaway your donation of any amount toward the Revive Our Hearts’ #GivingTuesday projects. This year that is supporting our international outreaches in languages like Farsi which reaches predominantly into Muslim countries, German, and Portuguese—our newest launch. When you help us support those through an end-of-year gift on #GivingTuesday, your donation automatically enters you into the #GivingTuesday giveaway. 

So, whether you give $5 or $500, you're going to be entered into a chance to win one of three what we're calling are Grounded bundles. Now each Grounded bundle includes:

• one registration to True Woman ’22
• Lies Women Believe by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth—that's a signed copy 
• Lies Men Believe by Robert Wolgemuth—also signed 
• a book by Kim Cash Tate 
• a book by Susan Hunt, another book by Susan
• my Bible study on the book of Habakkuk 
• a book by Laura Beth Perry—Transgender to Transformed, she rocked our world when she spoke at Revive ’21 a few weeks ago 
• a book by Mary Kassian titled The Right Kind of Confident
• and the Revive Our Hearts 2022 wall calendar 

Wow! That is a lot of stuff, a big bundle.

Portia: It is a huge bundle. And again, you enter to win when you make a donation toward our #GivingTuesday outreaches that we're putting in front of you. Just head on over to ReviveOurHearts.com to make your gift now and to enter to win.

Dannah: At ReviveOurHearts.com, you're also going to find some details about the giveaway including the fact that you've got to live in the United States or Canada to receive a Grounded bundle and also that you need to enter to win by the end of day on December 1. 

So, donate to the Revive Our Hearts #GivingTuesday international project today at /donate/givingtuesday. We would love to hear from you. 

Portia what a packed episode. 

Portia: Yes.

Dannah: If I do say so myself. 

Portia: Yes. 

Dannah: Makes me want to live better. And it makes me want to love my husband better. 

Well, Portia, do you know what next week is?

Portia: Grounded?

Dannah: Yeah, of course. You're not wrong. We're here every Monday morning, but it's also the first Grounded of December—the month of December is here next week. 

Portia: Yeah, it really is Advent season.

Dannah: It is, it is, and we have a very special lineup through the Advent season that will help you walk through the season glorifying God and not losing your Christmas joy to all the consumerism and busyness. Next week have Barbara and Stacey Reaoch, they're going to be here to help us think about how to love our in-laws through the holiday season. 

Portia: Wow. 

Dannah: I don't have a lot of in-law problems, but I hear some people do. It especially comes up during the holiday season. So, I think this is going to be pretty helpful to a lot of people.

Portia: I'm here for it. I can't wait. And we want you to wake up with hope to get with us next week on Grounded. 

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