Episode 165: Walking Through Unexpected Grief (w/ Tim Challies)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Life is full of seasons. Sometimes those seasons are filled with joy and laughter, but other times those seasons include sorrow, grief, and loss. These hard seasons may come from the unexpected loss of a loved one or a child no longer being a direct part of your family. Today's conversation is especially for those currently walking through unexpected grief or those who love someone walking through grief.
Joining me is Tim Challies. Tim is a pastor, author, and co-founder of Cruciform Press. He had to navigate loss and grief in his own life when he unexpectedly lost his college-aged son, Nick, in 2020. As a result of walking through his own season of grief, Tim shared his family’s journey in a book titled Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God.
I deeply appreciated Tim’s openness about his story and his firm confidence in who our God is. I believe you’ll receive a lot of truth from what he has to share today.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.6 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | We have to go to something that's more trustworthy, |
| 0:09.2 | which is the truth that God reveals in His Word. |
| 0:11.8 | And then as much as we can, |
| 0:13.1 | it doesn't mean we don't feel, |
| 0:14.5 | but it just means we feel rightly. |
| 0:16.1 | As much as we can, |
| 0:17.2 | we allow truth to guide our emotions. |
| 0:23.6 | Thank you. we can, we allow truth to guide our emotions. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us on |
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| 1:04.1 | together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:25.8 | Well, Tim, truly thank you for being on the show today. I'm very excited to talk with you and appreciate your willingness to share your story |
| 1:28.6 | and your perspective. And today, we're going to talk about some heavy stuff, but not without hope, |
| 1:35.5 | right? And we're going to talk to the one particularly, I think, the one who is struggling |
| 1:41.2 | right now through loss, through grief, but also to the one who loves |
| 1:46.1 | someone who is struggling. And for you, 2020 was a year marked by some significant loss. |
| 1:55.8 | And would you just share some of your story with us? Certainly, yeah. Thank you for giving me an |
| 2:02.6 | opportunity. In 2020, my son Nick was a student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| 2:08.5 | and newly engaged to a delightful young lady and making plans for the future and ready to press on. |
| 2:15.9 | He had the hope of returning to Canada. He had gone to the |
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