There Are Good Things Here
Norman Hubbard
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S4E3 “Mr. and Mrs. Hansen”
My new book, More Than Christians, comes out on January 14, 2024. The book is dedicated to Katie's parents, Charles and Betsy Hansen, and there's a section in it about my early relationship with "Mr.…
S4E2 Mom Hansen’s Eulogy
On November 10, 2024, Betsy Hansen passed from this life into the presence of the Savior she loved. Mom Hansen was one of the most influential women in my life, not least because she brought Katie…
S4E1 30th Anniversary
Today, December 17, 2024, would have been Katie's and my 30th Anniversary. To commemorate this day, I reflect back on some stories from our wedding day. God's goodness and steadfast love have…
S3E23 “In This Place There Are Good Things” S03 | E23
In this final episode of Season 3, we find Katie Hubbard characteristically wrestling with questions of doubt and faith, death and life, promises of provision and bills to pay. Most of all, we find…
S3E22 “I Love the Perspective that Comes with Having Cancer” S03 | E22
Katie hated almost everything about cancer treatment, except for the perspective cancer brings. She had a high tolerance for pain but a low tolerance for medication. Constant check-ups and scans left…
S3E21 Reflections and Hopes for a New Year (2014) S03 | E21
Katie Hubbard closes out 2013 with a long journal entry on everything she had done since mid-November of that year. (She didn’t journal a lot during that time because her journal went missing for a…
S3E20 Katie Hubbard, the Auburn Tigers Fan S03 | E20
Lest anyone think I (Norman Hubbard) edit Katie’s journals heavily when I read them on air, let this podcast stand as testimony. In early December 2013, you get pure Katie Hubbard, the quintessential…
S3E19 Reconstructive Surgery and Gratitude S03 | E19
In this episode, Katie Hubbard talks about reconstructive surgery with her followers on Caring Bridge. It may be the only time you hear her publicly threaten to beat you with a baseball bat. And she…
S3E18 Parenting, Losing a Friend, and Focusing on Scripture S03 | E18
In this episode, Katie reflects on the challenges and joys of parenting four kids at very different stages of life, losing a friend to cancer, and meditating on Scripture.
S3E17 “Katie Hubbard, Beloved Child of God” S03 | E17
In the previous podcast, we found Katie Hubbard struggling with the idea that her life, taken by cancer, might be dispensable. Here, we find her breakthrough as she writes out, Romans 8:38: “For I am…
S3E16 “I Feel Shaken To The Core” S03 | E16
Katie Hubbard grapples with the distressing notion that cancer might kill her, and God might regard her life as "dispensable." In her words: "I feel shaken to the core. I feel sad. I just feel…
S3E15 Most of the Things We Desire Leave Us Empty When They Become Ours S03 | E15
In her journey with cancer, Katie Hubbard learned a thing or two about what truly satisfies. To God, she wrote, “You are the one thing that I crave and desire that FULFILLS. Everything else leaves me…
S3E14 “Cherishing The Beauty of Your Own Backyard” S03 | E14
Cherishing the beauty of your own backyard. Asking God for the things you want. Trusting him for the things that lie ahead. That’s what you’ll hear from Katie Hubbard in her journal entries from…
S3 The 8th Anniversary Edition
Join Norman Hubbard as he reflects on Katie Hubbard's life, the "voice" of this podcast, and Jesus' promises of eternal life. January 25, 2024 is the 8th anniversary of Katie's passing.
S3E13 “Cowardly Joyless Souls” S03 | E13
Katie Hubbard tried to find her footing in "the land of the living" after weeks of chemotherapy had kept her sidelined. Resuming something like normal life meant confronting the anxiety of normal…
S3E12 “The Garden Is Always Changing” S03 | E12
Katie Hubbard had lived under the shadow of cancer and cancer treatment so long, it was hard to look ahead with hope. Even so, that's what her God and her garden asked her to do. Sitting under her…
S3E11 Everyone Needs a Pergola S03 | E11
Katie Hubbard must have spent every morning in June of 2013 under her new pergola thinking about the troubles in her world and the beauty of her God. I don't know that you need a pergola to do so,…
S3E10 The Practice of Disciplined Thankfulness S03 | E10
Katie Hubbard was capable of tutoring an entire generation on thanksgiving in the face of suffering. Many of us know what it's like to write a half-hearted thank-you note or "give thanks" over a…
S3E9 “How To Trust You?” S03 | E09
In her journal entries for late May 2013, Katie wonders how to trust God for the healing that others need. She was not only walking through her own cancer journey but also praying for friends whose…
S3E8 “How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it” S03 | E08
As Katie wrestled with her own sickness and fear, she knew how tempting it was to turn her eyes only on herself. The Scriptures were calling her to focus on God's holiness with humility. GK…
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