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Courtney Pray Duke

Bestselling author and speaker widowed at 29 who helps women find healing and hope through faith after experiencing loss.

Jul 7, 2026

33:01
I'm so curious if you can even – pinpoint this but what do you think you learned about god through the aftermath of andrew this whole story that you didn't know before or that you couldn't have known before like what did he show you or reveal to you that was unique to this um this journey for you
33:25
oh gosh it's i get so excited when i think about it because um and i just well up my eyes are welling up with tears Because I've really, on this side of it, suffering has become a gift.
33:42
And that's such a wild thing to say.
33:45
It sounds so upside down, and it really is in the natural.
33:49
But in the supernatural, this suffering has given me a lens that I have experienced the comfort of God.
33:59
I've experienced the fatherhood of God.
34:03
I've experienced him as a defender, meaning when we didn't have the wherewithal to The strength, the finances, the decision-making ability, whatever it was for a move that we needed or a relationship that we needed or whatever, God was like, I got you, girl.
38:46
Or
48:45
People, tell people what the title is and why you chose it.
48:48
It's called And She Got Up, and, um, this is my story of, um, all that I've, I- I- I've walked through when my life shattered.
49:01
Um, it's a first-hand account of me walking through the valley of the shadow of death, and God meeting me right in the middle and really bringing me up.
49:12
But the thing is, like, this is not just my story.
49:15
This is all of our story, and this is what's possible when we just surrender our lives over to God and say, "I didn't plan this.
49:27
This is...
49:28
I'm disappointed, but God, I'm trusting that you have more life ahead for me."
54:06
Yeah.

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