{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69455a26e2b7985fa21d1403/6a0732f93fd6979bfc779fd0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"EndureFaith - Episode 14: When the Hard Work Starts to Shape You","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69455a26e2b7985fa21d1403/1778856552346-f3026104-2c37-4123-b1fc-602bccf1d8f3.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this episode of EndureFaith, Bjørn-Ivar reflects on the experience of restoring a rental house and the physical demands that came with it. The soreness, tiredness, and repeated effort became a quiet picture of how the body adapts over time, much like training, where strain can lead to strength.</p><p><br></p><p>From that ordinary work, the episode opens into a deeper reflection on life’s difficult seasons. Some challenges feel like restoration work inside us, slow, tiring, and unfinished, but not without meaning. With Romans 5:3–4 as a gentle grounding, this episode looks at how suffering can produce endurance, character, and hope, not through pressure or forced strength, but through the steady presence of God.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a quiet and honest episode about tiredness, growth, faith, and the reassurance that even when the work is still heavy, we are not alone in it.</p>","author_name":"Bjorn-Ivar Sigbjornsen"}