E161: Love After Death, Suffering, and God's Will w/Kendra Tierney
The Lila Rose Show
Lila Rose
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Kendra lost her husband of 21 years to cancer, leaving her a widow with 10 children. Despite the overwhelming grief, she found peace and remarried. How did she navigate such profound loss? How did she come to understand her husband's death as part of God’s plan? And what was it like to open her heart to love again? In today’s episode of the Lila Rose Show, I sit down with Kendra to discuss how she found healing by surrendering to God's will. ♥️ Join us for this moving discussion!
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:53 - What does finding love after death look like?
00:08:05 - Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence
00:25:38 - Unexpected joys of finding love after loss
00:28:51 - Advice for people experiencing loss
00:33:33 - We want detachment even from good things
00:35:45 - What’s it like blending families?
00:48:44 - John was married before
00:49:42 - Divorce vs Annulment
01:06:06 - God’s not giving us the grace for another's shoes
01:09:27 - How has your work changed?
01:13:06 - Praying for the dead?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What I thought I wanted was for God to feel really sorry for me. |
| 0:04.7 | You know, your husband died of cancer because death and disease and decay was brought into the world at the fall. |
| 0:11.2 | We can marvel at other people's sufferings or blessings. |
| 0:14.5 | God is not giving us the grace for their shoes. |
| 0:17.1 | We want detachment even from good things. |
| 0:19.6 | Right. |
| 0:20.0 | But what does finding love again look like after a 21-year marriage? |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, I now have a husband. |
| 0:27.1 | Kendra, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | So good to see you again. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.4 | It's been a year. |
| 0:32.4 | It's been a year. |
| 0:34.3 | You've had a big year. |
| 0:35.6 | Yes, I have. |
| 0:36.7 | Although, you know, they say all things are possible with God. |
| 0:41.1 | In my experience, that is actually true. |
| 0:43.9 | All right. |
| 0:44.6 | So people who heard your episode a year ago now, you talked about grief. |
| 0:49.3 | You had recently lost your beloved husband. |
| 0:52.4 | It was really moving for a lot of people. So thank you for just |
| 0:55.3 | opening up and sharing because we got so much incredible feedback. People saying that they were |
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