Faith When Your Child’s Health Is Uncertain
Life can change in an instant. In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down with Tracy Ripley, a mother whose faith was profoundly tested when her newborn son was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect just hours after birth. Tracy shares her deeply personal journey of navigating fear, uncertainty, and motherhood while learning to rely entirely on God amid crisis.
This conversation traces Tracy’s return to faith after drifting from her spiritual foundation as a young adult, and how becoming a mother—and later facing her son’s medical challenges—became a turning point. Through hospital visits, surgeries, and overwhelming moments, Tracy describes how God’s presence, the support of her church community, and undeniable moments of grace sustained her. She also shares what led her to write Prayerful Warrior Mom, a resource designed to encourage parents navigating similar trials.
🎧 Listen to the episode to hear how God can meet us in our deepest fears, strengthen our faith through adversity, and remind us that we are never walking alone.
💬 After listening, join the conversation in the community.
Share your reflections, connect with others who understand the weight of parenting through hardship, and encourage one another with stories of God’s faithfulness.
Wife. Mother of five. Podcaster. Fiction Novelist
Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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