Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Jesus Calling podcast, featuring multiple guests who have appeared in their own episodes on the Jesus Calling podcast, speaking to the topic of grief.

We hope you find encouragement, comfort, and healing as you listen to mothers,

fathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, and children who have lost someone close to them,

how they leaned on God as they coped with the loss, and how, with his help, they were able to move forward.

We'll start with a thought from Maddie Jackson Selectman, daughter of country music legend Alan Jackson.

It's funny whenever people ask me about Ben I'm like I wonder how long it's going to take for my physical reaction not to just be to grin because honestly he just anyone who knew him like he had

the most energy and the way I always describe it is he truly had this child like joy like and not in a lack of maturity

way but in a way that he lived this abundant life that I think we read about in

scripture but don't really think can happen and he walked the way Jesus walked and

he saw people for who they were and not for what they did or for something that he

expected or wanted from them and he brought life everywhere he was and without expecting anything in return.

Both my sisters and I and their boyfriends and a couple of our good couple friends.

I went down there for the long weekend

for my sister's birthday to celebrate,

and it's just one of those freak accidents

that you don't know how to explain.

I mean, we had been out on the boat you know we all

left to fish and we had gone to eat dinner and dance there was a band and

da da da da and we had a little shower you know like you have in Florida

while we were there nothing crazy and went back to get on the boat

to go home and it was slick so he like a gentleman stepped up to try to help one of

our girlfriends on the boat just slipped on the steps the wrong way and fell back, you know, ten or so feet hit his head and, you know, he was conscious for about 24 hours, which, which in retrospect was such a kindness from the Lord because I got to sit with

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