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Alone in My Grief: Michael Card

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Musician Michael Card has felt it, too: Utterly alone within deep pain. He shares how experiencing grief led to finding God's love.

Transcript

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Okay, before we get started today I've got a question for you, not you, Anne, our

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listener. Where are you listening from? And you know that we're from Detroit,

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the Motor City. Shelby's in the Philly area.

0:14.7

And our family life today headquarters are in Orlando.

0:17.6

So we're coming to you guys from all over the country,

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but what about you? We would love to know if you are in one of those

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areas or where else you consider home. Text FLT plus where you're listening from to 80542 to let us know.

0:37.0

So again, you're going to text F.L.T.

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Plus where you're listening from to 80542.

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First Missionary Baptist here in Franklin Tennessee.

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I'd gotten to know the pastor, Denny Denson really well. I said, hey, I'd love to visit your church. So I go in there one Sunday morning. We had had a men's fellowship, so I knew the woman I sat next to, knew her husband Bob but I didn't know that

1:05.1

Dina was his wife about halfway through the service she reached over and grabbed my

1:09.8

hand and she wasn't making a point, it was just this natural, I'd say that she had kind of this

1:16.4

gravitational love that she just drew people in.

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I mean, did you find it really strange?

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Oh, it totally freaked me out.

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And I thought, well, this is just, it was the first time I've been to that church,

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and I guess, well, I guess this is just what people doing this church,

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and I looked around and nobody else was holding hand.

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So Dinah held my hand through the whole service. And I looked around and nobody else was holding hand.

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So Dinah held my head through the whole service.

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So whole service.

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