“I Trust You Jesus” | S01E01

This was one of Katie's final journal entries, written about two weeks before she passed away. When Katie wrote the journal entry featured in today's podcast, she was dying from cancer but growing in faith. You can actually see the toll cancer was taking by observing her unsteady handwriting. With about two weeks to live, however, she was steadying her heart by expressing her trust in her Savior and Lord, Jesus. Katie used to say—and believe with all her heart—that There Are Good Things Here. She often said that would be the title of her book, if she ever wrote one. No matter how difficult the season with cancer or how barren her soul seemed, she believed that there was goodness to be found in God, his word and his world right here, right now. Only the person whose mind was steadied by faith-filled surrender could find such goodness in the midst of such hardship, though. That's what you see in this journal entry. When Katie passed away on January 25, 2016, the 50 journals she had kept from middle school on passed into my hands. On this site and the podcast called "There Are Good Things Here", I pass on her wisdom, entry by entry, sometimes with my own reflections. Bookmark this site (or sign up for notifications) and find resources for your faith, refreshing honesty, and unexpected joy for the long journey through a painful world with a wonderful God.