Stitching Your Story: Finding God’s Peace in Every Season | Part 2Stitching Your Story: Finding God’s Peace in Every Season | Part 2
Love&BLoved with Lena Cebula
Naomi Fata talks with Lena Cebula about finding God’s peace through sewing, writing and motherhood, sharing how anxiety, grief and everyday life shaped her devotional. The conversation reflects on unique gifts, calling, and the idea that even seemingly ordinary stories can carry deep spiritual purpose.
32:50•20 Aug 2026
Stitching Your Story: How Sewing, Faith and Everyday Life Point to God’s Peace
Episode Overview
- Everyday gifts like sewing or parenting can be meaningful ways to serve God and others.
- Persistent anxiety and fear can be met by repeatedly speaking Scripture into those thoughts.
- Serving in church or ministry should not crush you with guilt, shame or overwhelm; peace is a helpful indicator of fit.
- Motherhood and raising children are presented as a significant, often underestimated ministry.
- God may use painful seasons and ordinary work over many years to shape resources that reach far beyond what is expected.
“God created each of us so uniquely with gifts and talents that can reach somebody that no one else can reach.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This conversation on Love&BLoved with Lena Cebula zooms in on faith, anxiety, and purpose through the unexpected lens of sewing. Award-winning author and entrepreneur Naomi Fata returns for part two of her chat with Lena, sharing how her devotional *Stitching Your Story Piece by Piece* grew out of long, quiet hours at the sewing machine, wrestling with triggers, financial insecurity and deep-rooted abandonment fears.
She describes recognising those "fear, anxiety, a heaviness, you know, those pits in your stomach" and choosing to "do battle with the word of God" instead of letting her thoughts run wild.
Naomi talks about growing up with the idea that only full-time ministry "counts" for God, and how years as a stay-at-home sewing mum felt like a wilderness season where she wondered, "Am I wasting my life?" Her story takes a surprising turn when a sewing ministry asks to translate her devotional into Albanian, prompting her to see how God uses specific gifts in ways far beyond anything she imagined.
Lena adds her own experience of saying no to expectations that created anxiety, stressing that if serving leaves you overwhelmed, stressed, or drowning in guilt, "please rethink that." She reminds mums that raising children is a powerful ministry in itself and that "if you have Jesus in your heart, it's not ordinary." Together, they underline a core message: God doesn’t waste pain, and he loves to use what makes your heart sing—whether that’s sewing, speaking, parenting, or quiet daily faithfulness.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your story, your struggles or your simple everyday life could matter to God, this gentle, honest chat might nudge you to look again. What gifts in your own hands could be stitched into something healing and hopeful?
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