What is it like to be an average family – parents and two kids – in which your year begins with the mom receiving a cancer diagnosis, and then the dad suffers a severe spinal cord injury just as the mom moves into remission and preventative hormone therapy?

This was our year. For the first time, my husband and I sat down together, to talk with one of our pastors in our church’s podcast about what it was like to enter such scary, tenuous territory as a family.

We move past over-simplified answers and platitudes, share our honest struggles as well as the realities that have kept our hearts afloat.

You can hear the podcast here.