Episode 239 - Meeting God in the Messiness of Grief with Esther Lee

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

It's every parent's worst fear to lose a child. How do you continue to trust God when you're experiencing unrelenting pain? The journey after such a tragic loss is never linear and it can be full of chaotic feelings and opposing emotions. Yet God offers us an invitation to meet Him in the messiness of grief. For Esther Lee, that invitation was often on the cold, dirty hospital bathroom floor where she cried out to the Lord so many times during her daughter, Ava's, cancer journey. And while her grief began there and continues on well after her devastating loss of sweet Ava, she has learned that the Lord graciously allows for the anger, the questions, the fears and the doubts in the messy middle of our suffering. Esther has walked a long road of first being a parent of a child with life-threatening allergies to later receiving a diagnosis that no parent wants to hear as well as the non-stop rollercoaster of doctors and hospital visits. And while her circumstances have felt impossible and her grief has been messy, God has met her in it all. Her story doesn't tie up in a neat, tidy bow when it comes to her pain, but instead, it is honest and authentic, one that allows for the raw emotions she feels while leaving room for the truth of God's goodness and kindness as she grapples her way through every parent's greatest fear. In this moving conversation, Davey sits down with Esther to talk about how vital community can be after experiencing loss, the true wrestlings that can come in regards to God's goodness in our pain, how purpose shows up in small ways instead of big oftentimes, and learning to worship when it feels hard. No matter your story, you will be able to relate to Esther's wrestlings in the messiness of heartbreak and pain and find comfort in knowing that we serve a God who is not alarmed by it when we do. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teamavabright Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, I can't tell you how many times we've had someone write in or message us asking
0:04.0	us for a list of the podcast episodes and resources we have on a particular topic or pain point.
0:10.8	In fact, just the other day, someone asked me, hey, can you point me to all the episodes you guys have
0:15.1	on sexual betrayal? Because unfortunately, this person had just recently discovered that this was
0:20.3	now part of their story. We get this question so much that we decided to do something about it to
0:26.0	make it easier for you. Rather than waiting through our entire library of very inspirational
0:32.0	content, if I may say so myself, how about if we just give you a list of everything that we have
0:38.0	on a particular topic you're looking for? If we've done that, we've built some of these lists
0:44.1	and we call these lists curated pathways. With curated pathways on topics like grief,
0:50.8	childhood loss, sexual betrayal, childhood trauma, widowhood, and more, we've compiled the very
0:56.8	best resources from nothing as waste administration, all in one place that will speak directly to what
1:02.4	you're experiencing right now or what a friend or a family member is experiencing. We've packaged
1:09.0	this in an easy way for you to consume it, you to access this material, or for you to send it over
1:13.8	to a friend or family member, you know who's experiencing a particular pain point right now.
1:18.9	Our curated pathways will give you access to everything we've created from past podcast
1:23.0	episodes to bonus content, master classes, live coaching, and everything in between. Let's be
1:30.2	honest, when you're facing a crisis, a loss or a trauma, you just don't have the time or the energy
1:35.4	or emotional bandwidth to search for what could help you heal. That's why we've created curated
1:40.4	pathways so that you can more directly and quickly access the resources that you need.
1:46.3	Now, you can get a taste of what our curated pathways are all about by going to
1:50.1	nothingaswasted.com slash pathways, but if you're ready to go to the next level on your healing
1:56.7	journey, you can access the full library of our resources, including the entire curated pathway
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