Overcoming Adversity Through Chronic Illness
Host: Michael Allison
Date: Oct 26, 2023
Listen on: YouTube
Themes: Military Life · Chronic Illness · Mental & Emotional Health
Format: Has Video · Has Transcript
Featured quote
It’s through our brokenness that we really become strong and where God can really use us.
— Karis Meier, on The Overcoming Adversity Podcast with Michael Allison
About this episode
- Overcoming adversity and chronic illness.
- Stories of unimaginable challenges and resilience.
- Military/veteran perspective (host is a Purple Heart Combat Veteran, USMC).
- Moved 34 times total; parasites in Malaysia multiple times.
- Holocaust survivor reading.
Highlights
Didn’t Want to Live / Brokenness Becomes Strength (at 13:43)
It’s through our brokenness that we really become strong and where God can really use us.
Hope Not in Healing but in Faithfulness (at 23:22)
The foundation of my hope is not I’m gonna be healthy again — it’s God is good and he is faithful.
New Every Morning / Just Say His Name (at 33:53)
His mercies are new every morning — just say his name.
What makes this unique
YouTube video available. Host Michael Allison is a Purple Heart Combat Veteran and USMC veteran, CEO of The Adversity Academy. Military connection aligns with Karis and Ben’s Army background. Contains the most direct ‘didn’t want to live’ language in Karis’s catalog.
Full transcript
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Suffering Redeemed 