Jun 9, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
Today’s interview is with Crystal Heydenrych, who is a botanist and mother of two. Crystal described the doubts that plagued her after her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died four months…
Could you talk me through, like, what, what was, like, a hard season you've walked through and kind of, like, running parallel to that, like, how did you experience God's faithfulness to you in that season?
So I think a hard season for me, if I have to pick one, it, I think what comes to mind immediately is my mom's passing.
Wow
in early 2020, and that was very, as you can imagine, shocking and, um, a very hard time.
Yeah.
It was a strange year because a few months before that, a really good friend of mine, just the night before her wedding, her dad was in a car accident, and he passed the night before her wedding.
Wow.
And so this happened to my dear friend, and then my mom got sick and passed quite quickly.
Oh, wow.
Like, how, how long?
From when your mom, yeah, from when your mom got sick to when she died.
Wow.
Yeah, so it wa- it was ovarian cancer, and sometimes I think it is, like, a hidden one.
Yeah.
Where you, you, by the time you get symptoms, sometimes it can be quite progressed.
So yes, this was a really difficult time for me, and I think the challenge at that time was I, I knew what I believed about suffering and-
Mm
Could you talk me through, like, what, what was, like, a hard season you've walked through and kind of, like, running parallel to that, like, how did you experience God's faithfulness to you in that season?
So I think a hard season for me, if I have to pick one, it, I think what comes to mind immediately is my mom's passing.
Wow
in early 2020, and that was very, as you can imagine, shocking and, um, a very hard time.
Yeah.
It was a strange year because a few months before that, a really good friend of mine, just the night before her wedding, her dad was in a car accident, and he passed the night before her wedding.
Wow.
And so this happened to my dear friend, and then my mom got sick and passed quite quickly.
Oh, wow.
Like, how, how long?
From when your mom, yeah, from when your mom got sick to when she died.
Wow.
Yeah, so it wa- it was ovarian cancer, and sometimes I think it is, like, a hidden one.
Yeah.
Where you, you, by the time you get symptoms, sometimes it can be quite progressed.
So yes, this was a really difficult time for me, and I think the challenge at that time was I, I knew what I believed about suffering and-
Mm
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