“Stitching Your Story: Finding God’s Peace in Every Season" Part 1“Stitching Your Story: Finding God’s Peace in Every Season" Part 1
Love&BLoved with Lena Cebula
Lena Cebula and Naomi Fata share intersecting stories of loss, mental health questions and faith, showing how unexpected relationships and everyday work can reflect God’s love. The conversation gently encourages women who feel disappointed or broken to cling to God’s promises and trust that their story is still being stitched together with purpose.
16:06•11 Aug 2026
Stitching Your Story and Finding God’s Peace in the Hard Seasons
Episode Overview
- God can use unexpected people and situations to express his love, even after deep loss.
- Desperation can become the point where someone chooses to trust Scripture and seek God wholeheartedly.
- Family members’ inner struggles may not match their outward circumstances, so listening without judgement is crucial.
- Every person carries their own cross, regardless of how “good” their environment appears.
- Ordinary work, like a sewing business, can become a ministry and mission field when approached as service to God.
“God reveals himself to desperate people.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety and healing? This conversation on Love&BLoved with Lena Cebula sits right at the intersection of faith, pain, mental health and second chances, offering space for anyone wrestling with God, trauma or recovery. Guest Naomi Fata, an award-winning author, speaker and entrepreneur, shares how childhood loss and unanswered prayers left her feeling abandoned and unsure of God’s goodness.
She talks about growing up longing for a father, and how an unexpected encounter with a locksmith at a convenience store slowly turned into a mentoring relationship, then a deep father–daughter bond. His love, guidance and eventual provision of a home became a living picture of what she calls “but God” moments – the kind of grace that shows up where everything seems broken.
Lena adds her own story of meeting Christ at 31 after drug addiction and human trafficking, and how her children’s questions about mental health and God’s goodness challenge her assumptions about suffering. She reflects on learning not to judge, to listen instead, and to trust that every person carries their own cross, regardless of how “perfect” their environment looks from the outside.
Naomi shares a key piece of encouragement for women who feel they’ve lost their dreams: “God reveals himself to desperate people.” She describes choosing to believe Scripture when life made no sense, clinging to promises like Jeremiah 29 and persistently “bringing God’s promises back to him” like the persistent widow. The episode closes with a glimpse into how Naomi’s sewing business grew into a ministry, shaped by her mentor’s conviction that everyday work can be a mission field.
If you’re wondering whether God can still use your story after trauma, addiction or disappointment, this gentle yet honest chat might be just the reminder you need to keep holding on to hope and taking one faithful step at a time.
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