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Episode 14: How to Find Healing in the Middle of Your Hurt
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Ruth and Pat welcome Candise Wade to the show today. Candise Wade is the creator of Love Your Human, an emotional health and literacy resource helping women embrace a more honest human existence through self-care, relational intelligence, and authentic connection with Jesus. A marketing strategist by day, she currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI with her husband and son, leads worship at her local church, and has recently developed an obsession with houseplants and gardening. Connect with her on social media @candisewade and/or @loveyourhuman.
Today’s Key Idea: An honest spirituality is a healthy spirituality.
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Introduction to Root Like Faith Podcast
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Well, hi, I am Patrick Schwenken. I am so thankful that you are listening in with me today at Root Like Faith. It is our deepest desire to encourage and equip men and women to be rooted in God's word, transformed by the love of Jesus and moved by his mission in the power of the Holy Spirit. Nothing is more important.
Exploring Suffering and Spiritual Growth
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Well, today we are continuing our conversation on suffering and more specifically how God helps us through the hard stuff, how God grows us in the midst of our chaos. And so we're going to be
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continuing that conversation that we started in our last episode. And as we said last time, we're going to be inviting some of our friends into this conversation. And today I'm really excited to have one of those friends who is a friend in real life with us on the
Guest Introduction: Candace Wade
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episode. And her name is Candace Wade, Candace and her husband David.
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moved to Ann Arbor just about three years ago and they have become dear friends with Ruth and I and have been such important leaders in our church. And so I can't wait to share with you today's episode and introduce you to our friend Candace. And so let's get started.
Candace Wade's Work and Passions
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Well, Candace Wade is the creator of Love Your Human, an emotional health and literacy resource helping women embrace a more honest human existence through self-care, relational intelligence, and authentic connection with Jesus. A marketing strategist by day, she currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and son. She leads worship at her local church and has currently developed an obsession with houseplants and gardening. You can connect with her on social media at Candace Wade and or at Love Your Human. Candace, welcome to Root Like Faith.
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Thanks, Pat. I'm happy to be here.
Virtual Dinner: A Glimpse into Friendship
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Well, Candice, first of all, let me just say, I can't even tell you how much it warms my soul to hear your newfound obsession with houseplants. It's been very much so inspired by you and Ruth. Well, I was hoping you were going to give us credit.
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So, you know, we were I know, I don't know whether it was a month ago when we were all here in Michigan still on, you know, lockdown mode. We were in shelter in place mode here in the queue. And so it was I think about a month ago where we had a virtual dinner with you and David.
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And our family was sitting around our table and we had cooked dinner and you guys were doing the same in your apartment in Ann Arbor and we were having virtual dinner. And so at the end of that, that evening together, I got out the iPad and went around and did a virtual plant tour and showed off all of our plants and you were showing us some of ours, some that needed a little TLC. And so it just, I love that. Now I get to see pictures of you going to the nursery and I know you're in hot pursuit trying to catch up with us and we're not going to let you.
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And so I have a lot of ground to cover. You do. You do. You are doing well.
Impact of Candace and David in Ann Arbor
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So well, I want to just, again, say welcome to Root Like Faith. You know, you guys, you and David have been dear friends of ours, really over the last three years. And I can still remember shortly after, you know, we had just launched, we just had our first public service, a refuge church, the church plant that we had been a part of here in Ann Arbor.
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we launched, I think, in April of 2017, and it wasn't terribly long after that. I know David was entering into grad school at the University of Michigan, and so you guys had moved to Ann Arbor that summer, if I remember correctly. I remember you guys coming to church for the very first time, and it wasn't long after that that Ruth and I grabbed coffee with the two of you. We met at our favorite coffee shop, just a shameless plug here for Ruth's roast coffee,
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in Ann Arbor and we met there and talked and I remember Ruth and I getting in the car and we just kind of we looked at each other and we just said there's something so different about this couple and we were just so impressed with you and David your love for Jesus your love for the church your love for living on missions seeing people