This world does not really provide a "safe place" to escape the sharp object of this life.
All of us will eventually experience the pain from being poked. And all of us are experiencing unrest and the disruption of the global economy, and the horrific war of Russia upon Ukraine.

Our "safe place" is often interpreted as our place of peace within ourselves. But in reality, there is a beast of self that tries to make us wander with our minds and our emotions into a remote place of misery and dissatisfaction.

Plugin this podcast into your ear pods to listen to a worthy message about the lessons of staying with your loved one through painful suffering.

00:00   Welcome to the Podcast
0:01     Why We Do What We Do
3:00     Don’t Escape the Lessons of Suffering Through Work
6:09     Being a Life-Anorexic as a Form of Escapism
8:15     Pivoting from Escapism
12:48   Pure Safety Does Not Exist
13:39   Your Presence is a Great Source of Comfort
19:45   Stop Looking for Sympathy
23:15   When Others are Perplexed About Your Pain
25:46   Compassion and the Listening Ear
27:13   You Do Not Have to Stay but It’s Worth It
30:59   Setting Aside the Beast of Self
31:35   If You’re Not the One Who is Hurting You’re Still Part of the Equation
32:53   There is No Escaping

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 29 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

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Rarely do we get to hear the healthy spouse’s point of view when it comes to long-term pain. Your voice is not mute. Your thoughts, faith, and words are meaningful to all who are going through challenging trials.

It’s neat to think that the one in pain and the spouse, who also lives the stench from chronic pain, can attack the real enemy from two strategic points.

Instead of being a victim, feel free to speak the truth against chronic pain. And enjoy this authentic podcast that will give you some faith-filled encouragement.

0:01 Welcome and Starting a Series of Podcasts
1:25 Comments from the Better Living Community
5:42 The Spouse is Walking Out a Hard Road
9:41 Your Job is Not to Fix the Pain as the Spouse
16:07 You Do Not Have to Stop Living
21:20 Comparison Will Kill Your Marriage
26:21 Put Your Oxygen Mask on First
29:55 Slay the Pain Monster Together
30:56 BLC: Send Us Your Questions

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 29 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn’t it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

The fear of the unknown can strike either in our hearts or our minds. Nonetheless, this message centers on a few pointers to strengthen your mind to get through practically any surgery.
And the focal point begins with a growth mindset, but also, it centers on the power of inward faith and spiritual maturity. Regardless of our painful trials, to be human is to image God.

Listen to this podcast to dig deeper to find the treasures of faith that will put you in front
of your pain.

5:08 Predetermined or Growth Mindset
6:09 Being Predetermined About God Not the Outcome
8:00 Falling Backwards is Not an Option Regarding Our Faith
11:47 Go Inwards to Cast Your Fears Aside
13:46 Internal Prayers and Visualization
18:06 Being a Divine Image Bearer
21:21 To Be Human is to Image God
22:56 The Beauty of God
25:47 We See God Differently as We Spiritual Mature
28:37 You’re Always Progressively Arriving
30:24 Take Our Lessons to Heart
31:20 Lessons Learned in the Place of Waiting

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 29 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

For many people, starting over with your identity and, ultimately, your purpose is sometimes more challenging than treating chronic pain. There are several layers inwardly that thirst for a drink from the cup of God's love. So, look inwardly for the core of your answers and the direction for changing your life.

Be willing to walk in excellence and with a kingdom mindset on the small stuff as you graduate incrementally to more significant responsibilities. Before you know it, you might find yourself smack dab in the middle of your purpose.

Expand your mind to expand your purpose. Allow this podcast to speak deeply in your inward parts to grow you mightily.

1:20 Tough Words are Required for Making Hard Changes
3:45 Let’s Find Our Purpose
5:11 It’s Tough to Restart Work from Chronic Brokenness
8:00 Define the Committed Cost
9:45 Look Inwardly for Your Answers to Start Over
12:50 Reform Your Identity Through Those Incremental Steps
16:08 Become Vulnerable When Making a New Commitment
17:42 Be Willing to Give Your Primary Allegiance to Your Purpose
21:57 Walk into Kingdom Living When Starting Over
23:12 You Will Grow According to the Size of Your Thinking
24:19 Where We Get Stuck is With Ourselves
25:37 Move Forward in Your Purpose with Your True Self
29:37 There is A Price to Change


Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 29 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

"Costly grace is the hidden treasure in the field, for the sake of which people go and sell with joy everything they have." 

Are we prepared to follow the call of God in our own lives when it comes to discipleship and transformation? A good question to ponder.

Perhaps it's time to renew your minds about your position on all things philosophical, spiritual, and theological. And afterward, challenge yourself mightily about your level of commitment as to making massive changes in your own lives.

It's time to trade the trinkets of this world for the treasures of heaven. Listen to this podcast for inspiration to side with costly grace.


0:45 Discussions about the Costa Rican Culture
5:10 Nothing Valuable is Without Some Cost
6:54 Responding Means Believing
10:27 We Tend to Focus on the Object Instead of the One
11:53 Making Choices Amid Our Most Valuable Relationships
18:06 The End Results of Cheap Grace
22:21 Healing Can Happen in the Waiting Process of Life
25:38 Renewing Your Mind Avoids the Trap of Cheap Grace
28:11 When We’re Not Asking then We’re Not Believing
30:54 You Cannot Add to the Finished Work of Costly Grace
32:11 Don’t Neglect Your Greatest Gift
33:36 You Must Have Some Skin in the Game
35:23 Remove the Distractions that Block You from God


Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 27 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

Most of us tend to waste heaps of time in our lives, especially if we carry heavy burdens of chronic physical pain or long-term emotional distress. As a result, we experience overwhelming bouts of psychic tension because we are accumulating dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of incomplete tasks that wreak havoc in our brains.

It's time to clean the slate in our brain chemistry by closing those hundreds of open loops that act like vicious monsters of anxiety over our lives.

This podcast provides some efficient solutions to restore our brain chemistry and give us another chance to effectively make the best use of our time to live a productive and purposeful life.

Let the stresses of life flow down your backside, and take a listen to this podcast.

0:49 Doesn’t Time Feel Stolen from You if You’re in Pain?
3:57 Unaccomplished Tasks Create Inner Turmoil
6:54 Your Present-Day Activity Will Determine Your Future
8:08 Explaining the Zeigarnik Effect
11:18 Sweating the Small Stuff in Open Loops
14:19 The Flaws of Open Loops in Your Brain
17:42 Ways to Close Those Open Loops
21:39 Be Clear About the Desired Outcomes Through Essentialism
24:59 Consider the Cost of Commitment
25:35 Remove the Encumbrances in Your Life
27:35 Resist Trying to Overcome the Flashiest Changes
29:53 Limited Options Rarely Affects Brain Changes

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 27 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

Though wisdom might seem hidden during our cultural protests, painful challenges, and division, the fact remains that she can be found if we inquire about her. When we fail to
ask God about wisdom, frequently, it is because we lack in our beliefs about Him.

The course of wisdom baffles the minds of our flesh. But in reality, the power of wisdom
is much smoother when swallowed than the cup of jealousy that acts like poison for our
souls. Comparison and jealousy distract those who suffer from chronic pain from
progressing forwards in the stream of peace and prosperity.

Enter the flow of wisdom; it is like a body of water that refreshes the soul. Listen to this
rich and healthy message that counteracts the unhealthy attitudes sparked by
imbalanced competition and toxic jealousy.


00:00 Jealousy is a Poison for Your Soul
1:48 Jealousy as Compared to Wisdom
3:52 Never Drift Off These Two Goals of Life
5:26 Losing Yourself Through God’s Wisdom
8:49 Chronic Pain Can Create Competition and Jealousy
12:23 Unhealthy Competition Within the Church
13:45 Wisdom Can Remain Hidden for Years
15:29 Dealing with the Downfall of Comparisons
17:27 Losing Yourself in Christ
19:04 God’s Wisdom Brings About Physical Restoration
20:01 Being Continually Inspired Despite Our Pain
22:49 Covetous Desires Turn Our Hearts Away from God
24:57 Wisdom Always Bears a Beautiful Harvest of Peace
27:33 Compare Yourself with Your Self

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 27 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

The power of truth is meant for your good, your freedom, and your transformation. Albeit, the list of benefits from truth is too long to list. Nonetheless, in this podcast, the subject of the power of truth is covered from our place of initial acceptance to eventually reaching the next level of submitting and then abiding in its essence.

Why do so many people reject the power of truth through the dark spaces of pain? A good question for you to ponder specifically.

Have a listen for your healing dose of inspiration and encouragement...

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 27 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

For our audio podcast:

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/6GW7UDw...

iTunes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

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https://www.facebook.com/GordonAndChe...

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We love this podcast because it is so easy to fall into a pit of despair thinking that sin and pain are the same things. And as a result, we felt we were exclusively battling the fear of having painful challenges, but in essence, we will find ourselves being attacked from behind, wondering how sin might be playing a role in our lives.

It's time to stay in the middle of the battle, holding on to truth and letting its power really change your mindset and how you can live out your lives differently in transformation.

Listen intently for yourselves…

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 27 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

For our audio podcast:

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/6GW7UDw...

iTunes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/GordonAndChe...

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/gordonandch...

Pain wants to keep you in a perpetual state of chaos and never have you enter into the life giving rest of God. But hope activated makes the heart well!

We all want to improve our outer physical body, but the inner parts of you are the most important. Everything that's in you will flow out of you.

Today, Gordon and Cherise encourage you to accept where you are right now - even if it's not where you want to be - and Don't Give Up on the Inner Change in your life. If the image you have built for your life has shattered, allow God to create a beautiful mosaic from the pieces of your life and move forward in your purpose with God in a new place!

Discover better living despite chronic pain. Despite dealing with the horrors of chronic pain for the past 27 years, Gordon & Cherise candidly share their experiences with what it takes to overcome impossible odds when your painful afflictions seem insurmountable. This podcast is raw and real and contains practical insights and hope for the millions of people around the world who are suffering. Isn't it time to become part of transformational change?

Over the next few months Gordon and Cherise invite you to join them and learn, truly, that abundant living through Christ is possible, even in deep suffering. Follow us for more — knowledge, experience, motivation, inspiration, hope and plenty of laughs along the way.

For our audio podcast:

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/6GW7UDw...

iTunes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/GordonAndChe...

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/gordonandch...