When God Doesn't Heal (Part 2): Finding Hope, Purpose, and Joy with Chad & Sadie Roberts

When God Doesn't Heal (Part 2): Finding Hope, Purpose, and Joy with Chad & Sadie Roberts

Curious about how others manage their faith when life feels completely upside down? This conversation with Pastor Chad and Sadie Roberts keeps things real, raw, and surprisingly hopeful as they talk about blindness, suffering, and what it means when God doesn’t fix what hurts. Chad shares how going totally blind at 38 upended his life and ministry, yet reshaped his view of God’s goodness.

He reflects on biblical stories like Joseph, Job, and Paul to wrestle with the hard question: "What do you do when it feels like God isn't fair?" Again and again, he comes back to one central conviction: "Your faith is going to survive any loss, any trial, any tragedy." You’ll hear how Sadie, as both wife and caregiver, had to stop losing herself in looking after Chad and start pursuing her own calling, studies, and work.

She’s honest about therapy, stress, and why self-care for caregivers "is not selfish." Their openness gives anyone walking through illness, disability, addiction, or grief permission to admit, "This is a lot" without feeling like a bad Christian.

Chad talks about embarrassment, disability, and hidden pain through his favourite story of the man with the withered hand, landing on a line that hits home: "God cannot heal what we hide." From counselling to hard conversations, he gently pushes hurting people to bring their shame and trauma into the light, trusting that God already sees it anyway. The tone is warm, faith-filled, and honest about doubt.

You’ll hear about storms of life, spiritual attacks, and those seasons where you can’t sense God at all, alongside the reminder that "Christians are built for storms" because they’re anchored to Jesus. If you’ve ever asked "Why didn’t God change this?" this conversation might help you feel a little less alone and a lot more understood.