There’s no escaping the hard things.  They come whether you want them to or not. And sometimes you have little or no control over the outcome. In the heaviness of a painful season, sometimes you’re called to do things you didn’t anticipate, and maybe didn’t even want to do. Yet here you are in the midst of it. The only way out is through. You put on your big girl pants as they say, and you do the thing as well as you can. Paula Romang knows this quite well. She is the mom of twins, and the special needs caregiver to one of them who was born with serious health challenges. Fighting the good fight as each day was long and arduous, Paula did her best and leaned on her faith to carry her through. How else could she have done it? Then the reality of her son’s death at age twelve. As she shares, in this experience she found answers and her faith remained intact.Thriving in the Barren Place is the book she wrote about this experience, all she learned, and how she persevered. Paula is our guest this week for Spicy Christian Women - Becoming all that and a bag of chips.  This is part one.