How to Keep Your Joy When Life Keeps Hurting | Lacy Abercrombie

How do you keep your joy when life keeps giving you reasons to lose it? On this episode of the Still Coloring Podcast, Toni sits down with Air1’s Lacy Abercrombie for a hilarious and deeply vulnerable conversation about what they call “sticky joy”—the kind of joy that can exist alongside grief, disappointment, addiction, and pain. Lacy shares her journey from people-pleasing and searching for identity in other people to discovering who she was through actually following Jesus. She also gets vulnerable about addiction, losing her ministry job, hiding from accountability, becoming dependent on alcohol, and the moment God used another woman’s obedience to help lead her toward sobriety. Toni shares her own experience of turning to alcohol after divorce and realizing that something she used for temporary relief had slowly become an idol. Then the conversation shifts into grief as Lacy shares about losing her brother DJ to addiction, seeing him days before his death, and singing “Goodness of God” at his funeral. Together they wrestle with a hard question: How can God still be good when life still hurts? This conversation is a reminder that joy does not require denial. Sometimes joy looks like finding one thing to hold onto today. A Scripture. A prayer. A friend. A worship song. Or simply: “Jesus, help me.” If you’re grieving, fighting an unhealthy pattern, rebuilding your faith, or wondering why following Jesus hasn’t suddenly made life easier, this episode is for you. Watch the full conversation on YouTube.com/@tonijcollier and send it to someone who needs a little sticky joy today. AND watch Lacy's new YouTube show "Lacy's Lunch Table" with Elevation Rhythm here: https://tinyurl.com/4jhpr5rb Watch podcast episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tonijcollier Support the Still Coloring Podcast: https://square.link/u/u2FkAzC7?src=sheet Shop Toni's merch: https://www.shopetch.co/collections/toni-collier Connect with Toni: Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonijcollier Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillcoloringpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colliertoni Newsletter: ToniJCollier.com/Newsletter Website: ToniJCollier.com Purchase Toni's newest book, Don’t Try This Alone: https://amzn.to/3BQqaBr Purchase Toni’s children’s book, Broken Crayons Still Color: https://amzn.to/3x3I4xD Purchase Toni’s first book, Brave Enough to be Broken: https://amzn.to/3VoCjVu