There Are Good Things Here

Mar 31 2024 101 ep. 11 mins 3
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Life can sometimes get so complicated, confusing, and painful that we lose sight of the good. No one knew that better than Katie Hubbard, a mom of four who lived with cancer for seven years and left 50 journals behind her filled with hope, longing, and sincere faith. If you’re skeptical of simple answers but open to honest searching after God, there are good things here. You’ll find that seven minutes a day is good preparation for living well eternally.

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“In This Place There Are Good Things” S03 | E23

Mar 31 2024 18 mins  
In this final episode of Season 3, we find Katie Hubbard characteristically wrestling with questions of doubt and faith, death and life, promises of provision and bills to pay. Most of all, we find her true to herself and her God, committed to the hard work of finding good things in the hardest of places. This podcast is probably the final one, so I share some final thoughts.

“I Love the Perspective that Comes with Having Cancer” S03 | E22

Mar 24 2024 8 mins  
Katie hated almost everything about cancer treatment, except for the perspective cancer brings. She had a high tolerance for pain but a low tolerance for medication. Constant check-ups and scans left her feeling exposed and anxious. The surgeries, scars and hair loss felt like an assault on her womanhood. Yet, she could write without hesitation to the Lord, “I hate [my] anxiety a

Reflections and Hopes for a New Year (2014) S03 | E21

Mar 17 2024 12 mins  
Katie Hubbard closes out 2013 with a long journal entry on everything she had done since mid-November of that year. (She didn’t journal a lot during that time because her journal went missing for a month.) It’s amazing to consider all she did after finishing chemo, radiation, and reconstructive surgery. It would have been a full life for a person in perfect health. Going into 2

Katie Hubbard, the Auburn Tigers Fan S03 | E20

Mar 10 2024 10 mins  
Lest anyone think I (Norman Hubbard) edit Katie’s journals heavily when I read them on air, let this podcast stand as testimony. In early December 2013, you get pure Katie Hubbard, the quintessential Auburn Tigers football fan. (Really, the "kick 6" game might be one of the greatest moments in sports!) You also see another example of the way Katie wrote out Scripture in her journ

Reconstructive Surgery and Gratitude S03 | E19

Mar 03 2024 13 mins  
In this episode, Katie Hubbard talks about reconstructive surgery with her followers on Caring Bridge. It may be the only time you hear her publicly threaten to beat you with a baseball bat. And she reflects on a common theme in her journals: having a lot of stuff doesn’t make you grateful.

Parenting, Losing a Friend, and Focusing on Scripture S03 | E18

Feb 25 2024 12 mins  
In this episode, Katie reflects on the challenges and joys of parenting four kids at very different stages of life, losing a friend to cancer, and meditating on Scripture.

“Katie Hubbard, Beloved Child of God” S03 | E17

Feb 18 2024 14 mins  
In the previous podcast, we found Katie Hubbard struggling with the idea that her life, taken by cancer, might be dispensable. Here, we find her breakthrough as she writes out, Romans 8:38: “For I am persuaded that … death … shall not be able to separate us from the love of God.” She goes on to write of herself, “Katie Hubbard, beloved child of God. If you are loved, you

“I Feel Shaken To The Core” S03 | E16

Feb 11 2024 13 mins  
Katie Hubbard grapples with the distressing notion that cancer might kill her, and God might regard her life as "dispensable." In her words: "I feel shaken to the core. I feel sad. I just feel totally dispensable. How do you face your life being taken away? Not being here at all?! It might not even be necessary for me to be here, according to Your plan."

Most of the Things We Desire Leave Us Empty When They Become Ours S03 | E15

Feb 04 2024 8 mins  
In her journey with cancer, Katie Hubbard learned a thing or two about what truly satisfies. To God, she wrote, “You are the one thing that I crave and desire that FULFILLS. Everything else leaves me feeling empty.”

“Cherishing The Beauty of Your Own Backyard” S03 | E14

Jan 28 2024 11 mins  
Cherishing the beauty of your own backyard. Asking God for the things you want. Trusting him for the things that lie ahead. That’s what you’ll hear from Katie Hubbard in her journal entries from mid-August 2013. And you get classic commentary like this: “You just keep providing, and I keep being stingy and amazed.”