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Somebody else’s death became Lisa’s doorway to life and she carries that weight every single day. From the moment we sit down at Still Waters in Pascagoula, Mississippi, her story pulls everything into focus: breath is a gift, recovery is hard, and grace is real even after addiction, trauma, and years of choices made out of desperation.

We talk about what Still Waters does as a nonprofit transitional home for people coming out of treatment, jail, prison, or drug court, and why stable housing and steady support can mean the difference between relapse and rebuilding. Lisa also gets honest about what drives addiction in the first place: fractured families, absent fathers, deep dysfunction, and the kind of shame that makes people numb out instead of reaching out. Along the way, she reframes a loaded word many of us struggle with. “Holy” is not perfect. It is set apart for God’s purpose, and God can use broken people.

Then the conversation turns to a terminal diagnosis and a double lung transplant that came fast and felt impossible. Oxygen tanks, rare compatibility, a “perfect fit” match, and the hard truth behind every organ donation: someone had to die so she could live. That reality opens the door to the episode’s central spiritual theme, too: Jesus stepping into brokenness to give life. If you feel spiritually out of breath, we offer a grounded way forward: healing happens one event at a time, one decision at a time, one prayer at a time.

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