“Love the thing that you most wish did not happen. It’s a gift to exist. And with existence comes suffering. There’s no exception to that. You can’t have happiness without loss happening.” Steven Colbert’s perspective when asked by Anderson Cooper about the hardships he has faced in life.

In today’s episode, Debra encourages you to live life well and even joyfully against the background of the trials life brings. The loss of loved ones, debilitating and fatal illnesses, personal betrayals, financial struggles, and moral failures, all of these will eventually come upon us during our lifetime. NO one is immune. Human life is fatally fragile and subject to forces beyond our power to manage.

But we have hope. We are Fireproof! We are not alone in the furnace of life. Debra recommends Timothy Keller's book "Walking with God through Pain an ...