Pain is an unwelcomed visitor in life. It's that cold, calculating part of reality that doesn't care about your plans or the things you love. It can strip you down and take everything from you. Living becomes nothing more than striving the day or making it through the next hour.

When you finally have time to breathe, all you can ask is, Why? Often there isn't any clear answer, which makes the sting of emotional and physical pain linger. Kris Smiley is a veteran of chronic pain. He's endured four cancer episodes, twenty something tumors, multiple highly invasive surgeries and the trauma all that carries with it. This his story about learning to hold hands with pain and his wondering about where God is in it all.

Be advised: This episode contains adult language and graphic descriptions of medical procedures. So if any of this is triggering for you, you might want to skip this one.

Intro (0:00)

Act 1 | A Guy Named Kris (5:45)

Act 2 | I Get Off at This Stop (20:09)

Act 3 | An Exit (34:10)

Credits (55:06)

Music Credits:
Blue Dot Sessions
Rhucle

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