101: Paula LeJeune | When God's Love and Adversity Collide

Paula LeJeune was born into adversity.  She was born a conjoined twin, underwent more than 30 facial surgeries, lived with an abusive father, yet she has experienced the love and grace of God throughout her life.

Questions Paula and I Discussed:

1. (4:00) Adversity is a word that can be used to describe your literal first breath on earth. Share about your birth and the adversity you and your mother faced.
2. (6:38) What were your early childhood years like?  (surgeries, family life, etc.)
3. (9:53) Did you grow up in a Christian family?  
4. (14:01) Did you ever get the feeling that people in your congregation new their pastor was abusing his family?
5. (15:14) When did you personally decide, despite all that was going on, I believe that Jesus is my Savior, he is the one that can redeem me?
6. (16:55) As we all know, tween and teen years can be difficult and even more so if your appearance is outside of what kids perceive as "normal." What were some of the things that affected what you believed about yourself, what you believed about God, and relationships?
7. In addition to the adversity that came along with all of the facial surgeries, you dealt with adversity at home.  We all want home to be our safe place, but sometimes home is a place of fear and abuse. Share a little of the adversity you had to overcome at home.
8. (21:40) Did you ever have anybody in your life that kind of helped keep you going?
9. (23:16) What was your deepest longing through those long years of surgeries and scarring and recovering and more surgeries and how did God meet the longing through Clifton?
10. (32:08) What do you think kept you serving in your dad's church as an adult, even though you knew that he was really a fraud?
11. (33:54) What was it like taking over the church that you grew up in, where your dad was the pastor?
12. (39:10) For the woman listening who may be in the midst of adversity, how would you encourage them that their current circumstance does not have to be their future?

SHOW NOTES cont.

Resources Mentioned:

• Book: The Perfectly Imperfect Princess: An Un-fairy Tale Gone Right by Paula LeJeune
• Lisa Whittle: Ministry Strong

Related Episodes:

• 94: Mary DeMuth | Hope After Sexual Abuse
• 57: Kristen Hatton | Redemptive Parenting
• 64: Natalie Maxwell | A Story of Special Needs Adoption

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