Bellator Colloquium: Victory Through Grief
If you or someone you know has suffered with grief after the loss of a child, this podcast is for you.
If you or someone you know has suffered with grief after the loss of a child, this podcast is for you.
The Leader, then, turned to the mother. He looked at her in her agony. He peered into her bloodshot eyes and appealed to her mother’s heart. He lavished upon her enticements of mercy if she would just speak some sense into her son. This can all be over.
Vulnerability is not always easy, but it became as natural as breathing to me during that time, and has stayed with me since, perhaps not to quite the same rawness!
As a mother of four small children, I hear “that’s not fair” very often. As a woman approaching the big 40, I have learned “fair” is not a real thing.
Maybe that reminder from Jesus, that, “Hey, you can do this. Look at it. It’s not as big as you think it is,” is what we need to raise our heads and carry it differently.
As I got up the morning after he left, I didn’t see a whole lot of purpose in making my bed and getting dressed. We’re not going anywhere I reasoned. And Josh isn’t home. So what’s the point? I know it would be a slow Saturday at home.
My daughter was born at Darnell Army Hospital in Ft. Hood, TX in 2002. My husband, on a month-long temporary assignment, came home the day before she was born.