130: Coping With Traumatic Events
Trauma and suffering can impact families in unexpected ways. Joel and Vaneetha Risner share with Ron Deal the positive effects of loss and suffering and how it helped to ground their faith, trust God in deeper ways, and bond their blended family.
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About the Guest
Joel and Vaneetha Risner
Joel and Vaneetha Risner understand suffering, as Joel’s late wife Barb died of cancer and Vaneetha lost a newborn son, has a progressive debilitating disease, and went through an unwanted divorce.
They live in Raleigh, North Carolina where they’ve been married for eight years and have a blended family with four adult daughters: Ashley, Emily, Katie, and Kristi.
Joel is a senior R&D staff member in radiation analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vaneetha writes about how Christ meets us in suffering. She writes regularly for Desiring God and on her website; her latest book is a Bible Study, Desperate for Hope: Questions We Ask God in Suffering, Loss and Longing.
About the Host
Ron Deal
Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.