Amy’s episode touches on her family’s journey and test of faith with managing and coping with her father’s challenge with addiction.
It can be incredibly challenging to be around circumstances that have inevitable negative consequences and just negative feelings towards someone you love and care about. There’s a lot of decisions to be made in scenarios like Amy’s.
Amy shares her childhood journey into adulthood that was guided by her resilient mother which evidently portrayed in this episode, set up Amy with the confidence and foundation of faith in Christ, despite the circumstances, to choose to lean on Christ during this season of her life.
While these circumstances are subjective to every family, perspective is key in all aspects of faith challenges.
This episode highlights the importance that we are not defined by our pasts or our mistakes but by the intents of our hearts.
We CAN heal from our traumas all because of faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement.