E93: How This Newtown Mom Found Peace Through Tragedy

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Lila Rose

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

When Jennifer Hubbard, a successful business woman turned stay at home mom, got a call from Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012, her life would never be the same. Her second child, 6-year-old Catherine, would be one of the 26 victims of the tragic school shooting that took place in Newtown, Connecticut that day. Today I sit down with Jennifer to hear how she found peace through the horrific tragedy. We discuss some of the details of the day, why she believes suffering is sacred, how her faith guided her path forward, and how Catherine’s memory lives on through an animal sanctuary.

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0:00.0	The morning that Catherine died, I got a phone call.
0:01.9	It was, there's been an incident at Sandy Hook School.
0:04.4	All schools are in lockdown.
0:05.6	So we went into the firehouse and I saw Freddie first.
0:08.5	He was in third grade.
0:09.4	So he was right around the corner when it happened.
0:11.3	How was he?
0:12.0	Absolutely terrified.
0:13.6	In that moment when he saw me,
0:15.6	there was this realization that he was going to be fine,
0:18.1	but his first words to me was, I can't find Catherine.
0:20.9	To say it was hard to say that it was dark in Newtown is
0:24.0	probably an understatement of all understatement. But the peace and the awareness of
0:28.8	God's presence, this sense of I am here, I have you you I have rarely felt it since.
0:39.0	Hello hello. Welcome back to the Lila Rose podcast.
0:42.0	Today we are going to be talking with someone
0:44.0	named Jennifer Hubbard, who is a writer and an author,
0:47.3	as well as a speaker, and she has an incredible personal story.
0:50.9	Now, you probably have heard parts of Jennifer's story because the whole
0:54.8	world knew what happened in December 14th, 2012, with the unprecedented Sandy
1:00.4	Hook Elementary School shooting in New Town, Connecticut.
1:03.8	Jennifer was one of the mothers who would find out that morning
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