KAY E. THOMSON: Um I think you know one denominations have different concepts of of what their what their beliefs are and some um Methodists believe that you can lose your salvation over and over and um then I came to California and I went to um a non-denominational church um and they had everything Baptists, Lutheran, Catholics um Methodists and but the teaching was right from the scripture. It was not what this denomination said versus what that denomination said. It was what God's word said, which was "if you accept my son as your savior, you will never lose your salvation.
LOGAN CRAWFORD: Yeah. Because it's not by work. We don't get saved by work. We get saved by faith. And when you get saved by faith, what's involved? Um just fully opening up your heart and your mind to the Lord, right? Yeah. And and you just have to um
KAY E. THOMSON: there's a prayer you can say whatever works for you. Uh but I remember saying God take all the things that I've done in the past, all the sins I might commit in the future and um help me Lord to walk trusting you. M and uh the class I teach now for grief share is excuse me is um we learn to trust the God that never makes a mistake. Gotcha. And that's what gets you through all the different phases of grief and that's what got me through my journey through grief and it got me through a lot of tough times just in general. You know God allows but he doesn't cause it. Sometimes our choices make bad choices and that's the result of it. So yeah, um I think we just have to always be reminded that we need to trust the God that never makes a mistake.
LOGAN CRAWFORD: Yeah, that's beautiful. That's a great way of looking at it and uh obviously God provides great comfort during our times of need as well. Talk to us about the book Finding Joy. How is it structured? What will people find when they crack the covers?
KAY E. THOMSON: Well, I just had um it was written probably 2010, 2011. It went public. Um, such a long time to be out there. But I just had someone the other day write to me and say, I read your book over and over and I get more out of it every time. And I thought it didn't make it to the trash can. That's good. But uh so that you know, I've gotten a lot of nice comments about it. The reason I wrote it was because when my first husband Dale was sick, he had Parkinson's and he had um stage four colon cancer. They didn't find the colon cancer until he was well down the path with Parkinson's. So yeah. Um but I thought, you know, he kind of had a lot of different changes in his personality just from Parkinson's. is a dreadful disease like any major terminal disease but um began to affect his thinking. Dementia comes in all of if you live long enough with Parkinson's dementia comes with it. Yeah. And um and I think in my book I wrote, you know, we had one trauma to deal with Parkinson's and then his brother came in the door and that would be the colon cancer and um he just lost 25 pounds over a week's time. Good God. And then I thought it was Parkinson's medicine and stuff. They said no. They did some tests and said, 'Yeah, this is the culprit.' So, we had a group at church that wanted to know how he was and I couldn't answer every email. So, I started sending like a group email out every couple nights and what can we pray for? How is he? Did he eat anything today? All those kind of what seemed mundane, silly questions, but right um he wasn't eating and um he would pick at what he wanted and push the rest away. So, it was beginning to be very frustrating. Um, obviously he couldn't drive anymore. And there were different things that we did as a couple. He loved to fish and I thought, okay, we're kind of walking down the path of, you know, not being able to do that anymore. Yeah. And so I would write, you know, we're doing this if you think of us and please pray for these things. And I would list them. When he passed away, um, they said there was a group of them that said, 'You ought to make all that into a book.' And I thought, I don't know how to write a book. No way. Can't do that. And then somebody else said the same thing. And I thought, well, so I rented a cabin. Actually, I paid for the cleaning for this cabin that I knew the owners and I went to their place at Carmel and spent a week by myself. I took my dog, but um we went for walks on the beach and then I'd come back and I'd write and write and write. They had one of those great big old-fashioned banquet tables in there and I I didn't want to get out all the stuff that I had been writing. I brought the notebook and I brought this and I brought that but I didn't want to get it all out because it would bring it all back, right? You know, we're that was 2010 and he died in 2008. So, it was kind of like do I want to go back and do that again? And I think depending on your personality, you know, I just wanted to do it and be done. And so I wrote eight out of the nine chapters in that week. Then I came home and I re um structured some of it. But it helped me put my thoughts on paper. Um whether anybody ever read them or not, I wouldn't know. But um but I do know. And a lot of people like this one woman, she's still reading it over and over. Yeah. uh because it's helpful to her. Um and it helps me to see that God was with it every step of the way. Even though I can't see him, even though I can't feel that he's there, he never leaves you.
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