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41 Story: Amanda Brown

There was never really a time in my life where addiction wasn’t around me. I was born into a family shaped by...
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41 Story: Adam Smith

My “40” wasn’t some massive public failure. It was something quieter, something that slowly kept pulling at my...
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41 Story: Whitman Lopez

For a long time, I thought the problem in my life was everyone else. I was stubborn, prideful, demanding, and...
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41 Story: Omar Martinez

For a long time, my life was driven by worldly desires. The people I surrounded myself with shaped the direction I...
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41 Story: Andy Renfro

My “40” started about a year and a half into working in Child Welfare Case Management in Florida. I went into the...
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41 Story: Larry Davidson

For most of my life, I felt like I was always in my “40.” I grew up going to church, but none of it ever really...
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41 Story: Amanda Rowley

I was born into a cycle I didn’t choose. Mental illness, abuse, fear—it had been passed down for generations, and...
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41 Story: Lauren Carrera

I grew up in church, but it was a very strict and judgmental environment. As I got older and gained independence, I...
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41 Story: Chris Lopez

My “40” started in my early teens, and it came from something I didn’t expect to affect me so deeply—losing...
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41 Story: Robbie Hinckley

There was a season in our lives where we were walking through infertility and miscarriage, and it was completely...
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41 Story: Larry Renfro

There was a season in my life where everything seemed to fall apart at once. I returned home after not finishing my...
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James Robinson

I didn’t grow up with a real foundation of faith. We celebrated holidays, but I didn’t know God personally. I...
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41 Story: Anonymous

For most of my life, my mind was not a safe place to be. For forty years, the voice in my head was filled with hate...
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41 Story: Sam Labadie

There was a time in my life when I was in a relationship that slowly became something I couldn’t control. Looking...
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41 Story: Ashley Miller

I didn’t come into this world under easy circumstances. My story began in chaos, and for a long time, chaos felt...
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41 Story: Emma Gardner

There was a season when I felt deeply lost. It began after my Papa died. His death shook something in me, and for a...
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Teri McKay

My “40” has been the pain of watching my son choose a path I know is not God’s plan, and if I’m honest, I am still...
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41 Story: Kim Masson

My “40” began in deep betrayal. It was the sin of someone in my own family, and it changed the trajectory of my...
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41 Story: Steph Hinckley

There was a long season when it felt like every prayer we prayed was rising into silence. We longed to grow our...
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Anonymous

For years, it felt like we were living in constant motion and never arriving anywhere. Jobs changed. We moved from...
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41 Story: Christine Wernsing

There was a season when I thought the story of growing our family would look one way, and God kept saying no—or at...
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41 Story: Michelle Labadie

There was a season where it felt like everything was unraveling at once. Some of it came from choices I...
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41 Story: Brent Wernsing

Brent WernsingThere was a season when it felt like everything I had poured my life into was unraveling. We had seen...