Conversation with Tim Timmons

Now, there are several chapters that are highlighted a bit more in the book.

I'd like to call out each of them, if you will, and get your first thought.

Let's begin with suffering.

Yeah, suffering, I don't want any part of it.

I hate it.

I do everything in my life to get around suffering, to not let my kids suffer, to somehow find some way of making myself more comfortable.

Yet suffering somehow, even biblically, we know suffering is the thing that invites us into a new awareness of life and others and people and sobriety in my day.

So as terrible as suffering is, actually I think it's one of the greater gifts that we're given.

And I don't think God gave me cancer.

That's not part of my theology and that's fine if that's somebody else's.

But I don't think he gives me cancer.

I think he's at work in the midst of this stuff.

And sometimes it takes suffering to actually bring my kingdom down and invite me into joining him in his kingdom.

Trust.

Trust.

I think we get good at what we practice.

And in the book I talk a little bit about worry and trust.

How I've been addicted to worry most of my life.

Just true.

Like you cut me open and you'd see, I may not show it, but like underneath when something happens, I run to worry as if it's something I can do about it.

Or really, to be honest, God's not doing his job.

So I feel like worrying is going to help me out.

And so I just, I get good at what I practice.

And so what I've decided to do is I want to actually start practicing trust instead of practicing worry.

So when something comes up, part of me writing the X on my wrist is a reminder of like, Tim, you can worry all that you want, but what if God's at work in these things? What if today just, what if you could just practice trust instead of worry today?