Grieving Parents Sharing Hop‪e‬ Laura Diehl

We are in a series of Grief and Music. This week, our guest, Yolanda Blade-Rory, shares with us her experience with music and worship after the unexpected death of her seven-year-old young son, Sasha, who died of an unknown heart condition. The episode ends with listening to one of the songs Yolanda wrote in her [...]

This is the first episode in a series about Grief and Music. Music affects our souls. God created it that way. Music can be a powerful tool as we fight our way out of the darkness, trying to find hope, light, meaning and purpose again after the death of our child. In this episode, I [...]

This is a topic I don t hear talked about much, but it affects so many of us. Who would have ever thought we would be faced with the decision of donating our child s organs? There are so many mixed emotions about this, whether you did, or whether you didn t. The world of organ donation is [...]

In our Western Culture, we usually choose names for our newborn babies because we like the sound of it, or we name them after a famous person, or even after an object or a place because we want to give our child a unique name. No matter how we came up with our child s name, [...]

This is the third and last episode in our series for the newly bereaved. Today we will be hearing from Pam Vredevelt, who has faced both a pregnancy loss, and the death of her 16-year-old son. Not only can Pam share from the personal experience of child loss, she can add the depth of being [...]

When my daughter, Becca, died, I thought I was getting early Alzheimer s because of how forgetful I was, how scrambled my mind felt, and how quickly important information could leave my brain. I had no idea for the first couple of years that it was normal for a parent after the death of their child, [...]