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Blindsighted isn’t just a podcast—it’s a lifeline for those walking through the darkest valleys. Hosted by Karen and Todd Hornsby, this raw and unfiltered series invites you into a story marked by unimaginable pain, loss, and suffering.
But this isn’t just about our story. It’s about YOUR story, too.
We’re not here to sugarcoat suffering or offer feel-good inspiration that fades by morning. We’re here to validate the ache, the confusion, and the questions that come when life doesn’t make sense—and when God feels far away.
The name Blindsighted is rooted in the phenomenon of “blindsight”—where people without sight are still drawn to light they cannot see. That’s what faith feels like sometimes. And in our journey, we’ve learned:
- Faith doesn’t make life easy—it makes it possible.
- Trusting God’s plan doesn’t mean understanding it.
- Victory doesn’t mean escaping suffering—it means enduring with strength, honesty, and hope.
Each episode of Blindsighted peels back the layers of our journey through our daughter’s cancer battle, a near-fatal car accident, health diagnoses, and more. We speak candidly about the moments that broke us—and the God who met us there.
If you’re walking through something that feels impossible, we want you to know: you're not alone. There’s light—even if you can’t see it yet.
Join us. Let’s find victory in the midst of suffering, together.
The morning after Christmas, our world changed in a single phone call. We were already reeling from the miracle in our lives. The life growing inside of me that doctors said would never come. But just days after celebrating that impossible gift, Todd got the orders. Report to the armory in two days.
Speaker 1:A unit unactivated for fifty years was being mobilized, and he would be shipped out, possibly to Iraq, before our baby even had a chance to feel our first hug.
Speaker 2:We packed up our civilian lives. Tools, uniforms, paperwork about death benefits and pay. And we stepped into a reality we never saw coming. For most of my civilian guardsmen, this wasn't a career. It was one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer.
Speaker 2:And here we were, thrust into active duty, unsure how we were going to pay our bills, if our families were going to be safe, and wondering the terrifying what if that hangs over every soldier's head.
Speaker 1:In that whirlwind of fear and uncertainty, we clung to the promise that storms don't define us. God does. Today, we'll share how faith and community held us steady when our new baby's nursery plans collided with the call of duty and how hope shines brightest in our darkest hours. Let's step into the story. We had just received a phone call.
Speaker 1:The day after Christmas, we received this phone call that you were going to be going to the armory, and you had to be there in two days with a unit that had not been called up in fifty years. But here we are now finding ourselves pregnant with the child that we were told we could not have. And the day after Christmas, we get a call that you have to report to the armory in two days and be possibly shipped to Iraq.
Speaker 2:We did. It was a great, belated Christmas present. Thank you, US military for that. Much appreciated. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes. That's exactly what happened. Two days later, I showed up at the armory with all of my equipment. And we were there for probably two weeks, back and forth, going home, having to stay some nights, cleaning our equipment. There was a lot of paperwork we had to do, regarding, you know, if we died or otherwise and getting our pay sorted out.
Speaker 2:Because these are individuals who didn't sign up for active duty military. I mean, it's like, I wanna remind everyone that these are, from what
Speaker 1:I understand, these are National Guard individuals who were not expecting something like this really to happen. Knowing the chance was there, but not really living with the mindset that this is something that really could happen.
Speaker 2:Exactly. There's about 10% of the National Guard, probably not even 10% that are full timers, as you call them. They're at the armory all the time. It's their job to do that. Mean, they wear their uniform all day, all the time.
Speaker 2:But the vast majority of us, we got regular jobs. It's one week in a month, two weeks in the summer. And our world, as you said, we were not active duty. We did not live on a military base. We had regular jobs, construction, painters, in my case, probation officer, you know, law enforcement, you name it across the board.
Speaker 2:All these guys had regular jobs, regular homes, regular lives, regular families, with the exception of occasional National Guard duty. So we get activated. Like I say, we're the army about two weeks in our life is turned upside down. We got guys like to say, hey, I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills now. Because you know, some some guys are making really good money in their civilian career, right?
Speaker 2:They're making amazing money. Yeah. And nothing against the National Guard of the military. But for some guys, there was a gap. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:They're like, how am I going to do this? I've got these responsibilities to family. And it was really hard. There was a lot of confusion, a lot of stress, a lot of heated conversations going on. Because like you're saying, we were not expecting us.
Speaker 2:We weren't ready for it. No one was ready for it. So the personal side of it was just an added layer that, know, your regular military, you know, doesn't have because this is their life. Right. So that's what we had to deal with.
Speaker 2:We had to get everything in order. How are we getting paid? We don't have our civilian jobs now. We're getting deployed somewhere. We don't know where.
Speaker 2:So we had to do all that. And you're trying to manage your family, because you're having to tell your family, okay, I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing in our situation. You're pregnant, but that we our story is just one of many. Exactly. Everybody, every guy there is stressed out to the max.
Speaker 2:And we get that. So we're trying not to step on each other's toes, trying to encourage each other the best we can not be Debbie Downers, because everybody is not happy. We get it. We signed up for this. We're going do it.
Speaker 2:We're going do it the best we can. But it's I'll say it's honestly, for most of us, it was kind of a nightmare. I mean, yes, we're doing it for the right reasons. But it was a lot. It was it was a lot to go through.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, for us and family. I mean, I'm sure you can speak, you know, for the for the military families and you know, that you all had to kind of put that together. All the families that were left behind.
Speaker 1:The spouses, yeah, having to figure out how to do life now without your partner in life that you're so used to having there. And you're not of the mindset that, you know, he could be deployed soon or he could be off here doing this. It lives just weren't geared for that. And so, yeah, to, like, reorganize your whole life. And specifically for us, knowing that now we had this child on the way that we were told we couldn't have.
Speaker 1:And now here we are excited about nursery, picking out names, you know, hearing the heartbeat for the first time and what sex is the baby going to be and what color scheme are we gonna go with with the nursery, you know, all the the showers, all the things you look forward to during that nine month period of leading up to meeting your precious child was instantly with one phone call changed.
Speaker 2:It was. It was turned upside down. And, Thank God you had a good support structure.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:Your parents, my parents, the church family. It was so wonderful to be grounded, to have God in our life, to know, hey, storms of life are going to come our way. But we know who's in charge of these storms. Because I remember, you know, there had to be coping mechanisms as we were kind of getting activated and all these things were happening. And some of the guys, you know, as soon as they got off, as soon as we got relieved or whatever, during this couple weeks, they'd be drinking, hanging out, you know, just trying to cope with it all.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't helpful for some of the guys. And then some of them were really young guys. So they just weren't grounded, know, like we were and you know, God just showed up and give us a piece as much of a piece as you could Right. But there was that. And I just thank God for it.
Speaker 2:Because it was helpful. As difficult as it was to know I was going be leaving you for however long, It was comforting to know that no matter where I was deployed, whether I was with you or not with you, that God was still working it out.
Speaker 1:You know, thank God he is with us because this is the moment that I used to could not, never thought I would, you the same, relate to a military family in the way that we do now, where here I was, you you're now ready. Y'all are about to be deployed or to go wherever. I know you didn't know where you were going, but I'll never forget the last day that you were in your local, what's it called? Local armory? Sure.
Speaker 1:And this was the last for all we knew, the last hug, the last kiss, the last time I could tell you I loved you possibly, the last time you could tell me you love me possibly. I'm already emotional wreck because I'm I'm pregnant with her child. And I could obviously, all these thoughts are running through your head like, god, this truly could be the last time that I see him or it could be the last time that I seem like this. What's he gonna be like not just physically, but mentally when he gets back home? It was a lot.
Speaker 1:God bless. God bless our military people and families for the sacrifices they make because there's gonna be people, Todd, listening to us that say they understand. But like so many other situations, you really don't until you've walked in the shoes. And so I always thought I had utmost respect for our military. But gosh, when we had to walk that out, it just went up so many notches that I can't even explain.
Speaker 1:So God bless our military. It was it's just it's a hard thing. I don't care who you are. It's hard.
Speaker 2:It was. And as we keep repeating, we didn't know if what was going to happen the next day or the following day. So there's so much uncertainty. But you get to the day where we are leaving the armory in Panama City, Florida and we are mobilizing going to Fort Stewart, Georgia. Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Speaker 2:That part of the state of Georgia is beautiful. And I hope I never have to see it again unless I'm driving through going on vacation somewhere else. We got there And there again, this had never happened before. So we actually got put the barracks they put us in is what you were supposed to stay in just for a few days, you know, like for drills and that kind of thing. And we were there for weeks and weeks.
Speaker 2:So it was already not a good fit, but we make the best of it. And they issued us all of our equipment, all of the clothing we were going to have to have. We got all of our shots. I've never been shot in the arm. Both of my shoulders were just numb because all the shots you had to get, all these things we had to do.
Speaker 2:I will say that but going from Panama City to Fort Stewart, we had a convoy. There was a convoy of us. Know, had our Humvees, our Deuce and Haps, all of our military vehicles in line in a convoy going. And we had a police escort. We had we had state troopers, then we had local law enforcement that would hand us off.
Speaker 2:And then once we got to Georgia, we had Georgia troopers and local law enforcement from each city or county. It was cool. I mean, I know it was, it was a lot of uncertainty and stress and drama. But that part was amazing. They made us feel, you know, like like we were the stuff because we had an escort, we didn't have to slow down.
Speaker 2:Like we were going on mission. And we were going on You
Speaker 1:absolutely were.
Speaker 2:So that part was really cool. You know, you're trying to find some silver liners.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you read about that or see it in the movies, but living it out in real life is kind of Right. Crazy.
Speaker 2:In two states. There was a lot of coordination there. But like I said, we made it there. We were there probably about two months, January and into in February most. So almost two months.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Because to our surprise, I was able to visit you a few times while you were there.
Speaker 2:You were, which was great. And you just kept getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Every time I saw you.
Speaker 1:Not just my belly, my face. It was going everywhere.
Speaker 2:That happens when you It happens. And thankfully, you know, I was able I was able to be there to find out what the sex was we talked about So we knew that and the ultrasounds and you would bring me some stuff. So we're able to see each other a little bit, you know, we weren't even expecting to be able to do that. But honestly, I think we were there mobilizing longer than was expected, because no one knew, you know, this was all uncharted territory. So it was great.
Speaker 2:I got to see you and fast forward, we finally found out, well, let me say that we were kind of given rumors, oh, well, you know, we're going to get sent to different military bases in The United States because their active duty guys are going to be deployed overseas. So we're going to augment their bases because they're not going to be there. Almost kind of like a glorified homeland security kind of thing. We're going to provide security to certain places in The US to kind of help prevent or lower the risk of more terrorist attacks after September 11. So we kind of felt pretty confident at one point that we were going to stay in The US.
Speaker 2:I mean, still we were going be away from home. But we felt like we were going to be in The US doing security type things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's not what happened.
Speaker 2:That's not. It's not what happened at all. That being said, we finally got activated and we're not staying in The US. We're going overseas. They couldn't tell us where we knew where we were going.
Speaker 2:We were going to Southeast Asia, though. That's where we're going Southeast Asia. So I remember they chartered us commercial airliners to fly over. So just a regular airline that you would you would travel in. That's what we were on.
Speaker 2:And it's so hilarious because you can't even get fingernail clippers on an airplane nowadays. Right?
Speaker 1:Seems like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Which as I've heard you say,
Speaker 1:good I'm okay with. Yes.
Speaker 2:Well, on these planes, we had all of our gear. We had our AR fifteens, nine millimeters, all the other weapons and rifles, wall to wall ready for war on these airplanes, all in the floor, up under seats. This is hilarious. This is so wild. I remember being on the runway waiting for us to take flight.
Speaker 2:That's when a lot of stuff kind of hit me. That was a seminal moment, if you will, for me to kind of think, wow, how did I get here? There again, a lot of bittersweet mixed emotions. There was a part of me that was proud that I was going to be able to go serve our country. Honestly, the mindset was better to be over there in Iraq fighting the terrorists than having to fight them here at home in our streets.
Speaker 2:We felt like we were protecting our family, protecting our friends by going to them. Let's meet this evil where it is and not allow it to come here to The US again. So proud of that, super proud of that. And this country gives us so many freedoms that are free. Yeah, that previous generations have paid for with us with their blood, sweat, and tears and lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was part of it for me and you because you were serving in the military exactly like I was, your deployment was just a different location. So to kind of pay back this country a little bit, there was something very satisfying for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah,
Speaker 2:I will say. That being said, I'm on the runaway. And I've just got the weight of the world on me. I'm like, you know, Karen really didn't want you to join the National Guard, but you kept on. And oh, you would not wanna get activated since World War two.
Speaker 2:Here we are activated. I'm on the runway in this airplane. Karen's pregnant. I'm thinking, what did I do? I've made a mistake here.
Speaker 2:When am I ever going to get to come back home? No clue. Will I get to come back? Will I get to be there for the birth? Am I going to come back at all?
Speaker 2:When you think about all those things and I'm like, wow, God, how did I wind up here? I know you're in control, but I think I messed up. So and I felt like I was a failure as a husband. Would I be a failure as a father because I, you know, wouldn't get to be there. So we'd said all of our goodbyes.
Speaker 2:We left, it was like a twenty three hour flight. So we get there. We initially fly into Kuwait. And things are pretty good in Kuwait. It's a very arid desert environment.
Speaker 2:We're in big airplane hangars. That's where we're sleeping. It was okay. Of course, it's hot, right? I mean, it's desert.
Speaker 2:It's unbearably hot. But we had it pretty good. And we also had to earn our keep. We had to do security duty around the perimeter. They had huge perimeters It was something out of an Indiana Jones movie because it's like these open areas.
Speaker 2:They did have a little bit of grass and pasture land because you would see some guys out there herding sheep and they had camels. Camels are a big animal. They're humongous. So I stayed away from the camels.
Speaker 1:So you all say you're there for a month and then you all finally go to your next destination.
Speaker 2:We do. We were told, alright, fellas, but they don't give us a lot of advanced notice, because we need to know. Alright, get all your gear together. We're taking different little convoys, and we're heading in Iraq. And in that moment, that whole, band of brothers thing kinda really kinda hit me as far as I gotta be looking out for the guys around me because they're going to be looking out for me.
Speaker 2:We are the only thing keeping each other alive, so to speak. So that was really intense. It really got super, super real because we're leaving Kuwait a controlled environment where we weren't overly concerned, that there will be hostile fire and we're going into Baghdad, Iraq. So we had no clue what that was gonna look like. And as far as timelines go, we were one day behind the marines going into to this country, to this capital city.
Speaker 2:So it was a regime change. It was civil war. There was chaos in the streets. As we pulled in one day behind the Marines, it was a battle scene.
Speaker 1:It was a battlefield. It was exactly war zone.
Speaker 2:There were in, in the cities, the people were, you know, huge numbers of people on side of the road were yelling, happy we were there, thought we were there, liberators and just super excited we were there. They were burning Iraqi flags, burning Iraqi money, just a lot of energy. And at one moment you're like, love us, but then we're thinking, could it just as quickly turn around where they hate us or they're trying to kill us? So that was the scene that we rolled into. It was just so hard to accept and take in and are they really glad we're here?
Speaker 2:Are they not glad we're here? Where are we going? What are we doing?
Speaker 1:Gosh, I can't imagine what that is like for you individuals who just left your offices or your construction sites or whatever your typical day to day work environment is like to however many weeks later stepping into a literal war zone.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. We had no point of reference. It is interesting. We did have some guys that were previously active duty and they got out of the regular military and then joined the national guard reserve and they had never been in a war zone. So I mean, yes, they had some point of reference, but it was new to all of us, but you're right to go from being the average guy on the street till a couple months later being these liberators, so to speak of Iraq.
Speaker 2:It was a lot.
Speaker 1:It's a lot to digest.
Speaker 2:It was. So the first nine
Speaker 1:adjust to like, just, just to adjust to that and that this is not a dream. This is like really happening right here in front of me. And to know that this is okay, I gotta get mentally ready for what I'm in the middle of right now.
Speaker 2:It was very surreal. It truly was. You were just kinda trying to process it. And it was it was a lot.
Speaker 1:So many people listening to this know that one of the silent killers, it seems like, in life is the unknown. The what ifs and is this gonna happen? Is that gonna happen? And and literally can drive ourselves insane because we don't know what's gonna happen. What's coming next?
Speaker 1:What's gonna blindside us next here? Right? So I do know just because there's so many details I know you could share with us about Iraq and what that whole experience was like from a military standpoint, but and maybe we can do a future episode where maybe we talk about just what your experience was specifically from day to day operations. But for this episode specifically, I want to highlight some of the miracles that took place while you were there. I'd love for you to first start off with the story of the one gentleman that you felt so impressed to go speak to.
Speaker 1:That was a pretty awesome moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That was. I'll set the stage. So we're in Iraq for however many months now, and we're in one of Saddam Hussein's Republican guard barracks. And we can get into, how unpleasant our living was there.
Speaker 2:It's just one of those things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So but I'm in my regular routine where our routine initially, we do convoy security. So we would we would drive all over the city and protect, you know, the officers as they had to go do their, duties and go here and there. But on this particular day, like many other days, I had guard duty. So we had this, facility, this perimeter that was ours that we were sleeping in, living in, so we had to guard it. So all around the perimeter, there were numerous guard shacks, so to speak, areas we had fortified that we just had to guard.
Speaker 2:So no one would come shoot at us or attack us, that kind of thing. So I'm getting ready, doing my regular routine. I'm listening to my Christian music and all the things I do, getting ready, getting ready to put on my gear, put on my clothes, get ready to go do eight hours of guard duty. And I feel a little sorry for myself, honestly, a little pity party. But as I'm getting ready, it just hits me so powerfully.
Speaker 2:And I have this thought of this one guy, just a random guy. He wasn't in my unit. I just see him around. Honestly, he and some more guys in his unit, because there were quite a few units together living there. They got their self in trouble and I won't get into all the details, but he's the one he's not the first guy you would expect that God would have put in my mind so powerfully.
Speaker 2:Not at all. But that being said, all of a sudden I just get this, just a feeling of coming on me so strong. I've never I haven't experienced it before or since. So I don't really have any perspective on it other than this one time. But the it just came to me as I'm trying to get ready, feeling a little sorry for myself.
Speaker 2:You need to go pray for this guy. Like, what? And then I honestly, it was like like a vision in my mind of this guy who was one of the least likely guys you would expect this from. But God kind of showed me this man is going to be ministering to people like a pastor or an evangelist in front of huge groups of people. I'm going to use him in a mighty way.
Speaker 2:And it was so strong on me. I'm like, okay. So I'm getting a little emotional because that's how I can kind of feel like remember that. And it was so strong. I'm like, well, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2:I'm getting ready to go on guard duty. What's going on here? And the feeling was so strong. It felt like a thousand pounds on my chest. It felt like an elephant was sitting on me.
Speaker 2:Know, because I know God is a gentleman, but the Holy Spirit was on me. There was no gentleman about it. Basically, I either had to do it or I was going to be so miserable on that eight hours of guard duty that I would truly regret it. I'm like, Oh my goodness. All right, Lord, if it is this big of a priority, I would do it.
Speaker 2:And it, I can't, I cannot explain it, Karen. It was so strong and so out of the blue and so clear on what my mission was like, So I started walking around, Hey, I want, I want to know where this guy's at Well, all of a sudden, he walks up. Well, it would have been nice since I got all of this to share with him if it would have just been him by himself. Oh, no. There was a one of his buddies with him.
Speaker 2:And again, I don't really know these guys. I mean, I know their name, they know my name. That's it. Acquaintances that list live in this big structure together. And I walk up to him at this point, I am crying.
Speaker 2:And that's not something we did, especially in Iraq getting ready to go on guard duty. Now, maybe if you feel sorry for yourself and you're missing your family, maybe in the middle of the night when it's just you want to shed a couple of tears, okay. You are not gonna walk up to somebody and be crying. So I walk up to him and and he looks at me, tell her there's something wrong. He just he and his friend and the guy with him, like, they don't even say anything.
Speaker 2:I'm like, man, I gotta tell you something. Like, this this vision just came on me so strong and powerful. He's like, and I said, I don't know where you are with God. I don't know if you got praying family. I don't know who it is that is interceding for you.
Speaker 2:But I have got to share this. I am so overwhelmed that I got to get it off my chest. I've got to share this with you. So I began to tell him how God showed me that this man was going to be moved upon in a mighty way. He was going to be a pastor.
Speaker 2:He was going to be an evangelist perhaps, but he would be ministering to hundreds and thousands of people. You're going to be in front of huge groups of people sharing the gospel in a mighty and powerful way. And I think I was probably more emotional than I am now. And as I'm saying this, he and his friend, and he, he, and he's, he's a black guy. He got whiter than me.
Speaker 2:It's like all the blood was just leaving his face and he and his friend, they didn't say a word. So with all that, I shared everything on my heart. I don't know whatever happened with that guy after our deployment ended. I don't know if that vision that I share with him ever come to pass. I don't know if he became this pastor or this evangelist that ministered to these hundreds and thousands of people that, you know, and God used in a mighty way that I've seen and that I felt.
Speaker 2:I will say that how every day after that is for the rest of our deployment. When I would see the guy, he would kinda look at me funny like a deer in a headlight like, well, is this guy got anything else he's gonna say to me?
Speaker 1:I mean, makes a good point though, Todd, because I will say this about you. As your wife and someone who knows you pretty well. That was absolutely out of your comfort zone. I know you would not have done that if you hadn't felt some kind of weight and a tugging of some sort. People and even I would like to say, Todd, explain to people how you knew that was God.
Speaker 1:How did you know? How did you know? But as you said earlier, you can't really there's just some things in life you can't quantify. You can't explain. It's beyond the English language to be able to express that emotion and what that felt like the heaviness of that moment for you to share that.
Speaker 2:You're right. It is hard to explain. And you have to be careful that you're not just caught up in emotion, which I knew I wasn't in the environment I was in. But and as we've seen, it is easy to do more harm than good.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And that is the last thing I would ever want to do. But as I've heard you say so many times before, God will develop your character to catch up to your calling.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And it was one of those moments. And, yeah, it it took some boldness even though I felt like I had no choice because the spirit was so strong on me. I don't know what ultimate impact it had on that man, but it had a big impact on me because I think back to that moment. I thought back so many times in how I would be in a situation where it required some boldness to speak to someone or pray to some for someone. And I remember back to that, I'm like, if I can do that in Iraq, same God I served then I served now, I can do this.
Speaker 2:And I I remember, you know, in previous episodes, previous seasons where you said that you and Milton Brown would think back on that car accident, that car that was on fire, and how God moved in a mighty way, and you all made it through that. And everything you learned from that experience, and this was kind of one of those experiences for me, like, you know, if God can move in that mighty and powerful way then, that just gives me encouragement and confidence in knowing that what I'm doing now, God's already working it out.
Speaker 1:Maybe that is what this moment was all about. Maybe God was saying, hey, Todd, I'm gonna put this in your heart. See if you'll listen to me. See if you'll obey me. See if you do love me enough that when I put this burden upon you that you will act on it and not just push it away.
Speaker 1:You know, I believe God does do that. So when we get these burdens at times or when maybe we're just walking through a tough season, It could be that God is there is no could be. I know it is God preparing and equipping us for what He has put us on this earth to accomplish. So maybe we should say and tell ourselves when we find ourselves in this moment, you know what? Maybe this is God testing me right now.
Speaker 1:Am I going to pass? Am I going to fail? Two days after Christmas, we traded lullabies for load bearing gear. We went from picking paint swatches for a nursery to filling out deployment forms. But through every convoy from Panama City to Fort Stewart and every sleepless night on desert sand, one truth remained, God's provision isn't held back by surprise orders or distant battlegrounds.
Speaker 2:We saw brothers in arms wrestling with civilian mortgages and pregnant wives at home. We felt the weight of uncertainty, but we also felt the weight of the Holy Spirit urging boldness just as he did when I shared a heaven sent vision in the middle of a guard ship. Those moments of divine interruption remind us that valleys and victories are woven together by faithful God.
Speaker 1:If you're in a season of waiting, wondering what if, remember storms come to teach us that we cannot control every call, but we can choose where we anchor our hope. Thank you for listening to Blind Sided. If this episode encouraged you, please subscribe, rate and share. So together we can help others find victory in the midst of suffering. And visit us at blindsightedpodcast.com for more stories, resources and behind the scenes reflections.
Speaker 2:We'll see you next time when we dive deeper into the miracles that sustained us overseas and the way God still shows up when we least expect it.
Speaker 1:Until then, may you rest in the promise that no matter where life deploys you, he goes before you.