Episodes

  • “In This Place There Are Good Things” S03 | E23

    “In This Place There Are Good Things” S03 | E23
    Apr 1 2024
    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 her true to herself and her God, committed to the hard work of finding good things in the hardest of places. This podcast is probably the final one, so I share some final thoughts.
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    19 mins
  • “I Love the Perspective that Comes with Having Cancer” S03 | E22

    “I Love the Perspective that Comes with Having Cancer” S03 | E22
    Mar 25 2024
    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 her feeling exposed and anxious. The surgeries, scars and hair loss felt like an assault on her womanhood. Yet, she could write without hesitation to the Lord, “I hate [my] anxiety and the uncertainty I live with, but I do love the perspective that comes with having cancer. Sometimes, I think everyone should have cancer.”
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    8 mins
  • Reflections and Hopes for a New Year (2014) S03 | E21

    Reflections and Hopes for a New Year (2014) S03 | E21
    Mar 18 2024
    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 month.) It’s amazing to consider all she did after finishing chemo, radiation, and reconstructive surgery. It would have been a full life for a person in perfect health. Going into 2014, she lists out lessons learned from the previous year: “What Have I Learned: God is trustworthy. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I can turn towards Him or away from Him in trials. God will provide. God will provide.”
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    13 mins
  • Katie Hubbard, the Auburn Tigers Fan S03 | E20

    Katie Hubbard, the Auburn Tigers Fan S03 | E20
    Mar 11 2024
    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 Auburn Tigers football fan. (Really, the "kick 6" game might be one of the greatest moments in sports!) You also see another example of the way Katie wrote out Scripture in her journal as a means of meditating on what God was saying to her. It’s an inspiring model many of us could profitably adopt.
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    10 mins
  • Reconstructive Surgery and Gratitude S03 | E19

    Reconstructive Surgery and Gratitude S03 | E19
    Mar 4 2024
    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 reflects on a common theme in her journals: having a lot of stuff doesn’t make you grateful.
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    14 mins
  • Parenting, Losing a Friend, and Focusing on Scripture S03 | E18

    Parenting, Losing a Friend, and Focusing on Scripture S03 | E18
    Feb 26 2024
    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.
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    13 mins
  • “Katie Hubbard, Beloved Child of God” S03 | E17

    “Katie Hubbard, Beloved Child of God” S03 | E17
    Feb 19 2024
    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 persuaded that … death … shall not be able to separate us from the love of God.” She goes on to write of herself, “Katie Hubbard, beloved child of God. If you are loved, you are known, not forgotten. Not wasted. Not dispensable. If I am loved, the You are not holding out on me, withholding from me.”
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    14 mins
  • “I Feel Shaken To The Core” S03 | E16

    “I Feel Shaken To The Core” S03 | E16
    Feb 12 2024
    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 totally dispensable. How do you face your life being taken away? Not being here at all?! It might not even be necessary for me to be here, according to Your plan."
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    14 mins