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Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Episode 44: A Parent’s Worst Nightmare—A Conversation with a Mom Who Lived It

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Billy Graham, Society & Culture, Bible, Cissie Graham Lynch, Christianity, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian, God, Franklin Graham, Religion & Spirituality, Fearless

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My friend Kathy Yokeley was stunned when her daughter, Natalie, was diagnosed with inoperable spinal cord cancer at the age of twelve. Nine months later, Natalie was gone. Kathy and her family have struggled through intense grief, but they’ve also learned about God’s infinite faithfulness. In this episode, Kathy and I sit down to talk about her experience navigating a parent’s worst nightmare and how Natalie’s life left a lasting impact on the world. Kathy recently released a book doc...

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.

0:04.0

Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. I want to be fearless.

0:19.0

Hello.

0:20.0

Hello, welcome back to another episode of Fearless. I'm glad you're joining me, Sissy Graham

0:26.7

Lynch again. If this happens to be your first time on Fearless, I'm glad you were here.

0:32.1

And here I'm Fearless, I often glad you are here and here I'm fearless I often encourage you to live a fearless

0:36.5

faith but what happens when you come face to face with your worst fear? Are you prepared? And in today's episode I'm speaking

0:46.6

with Kathy Oakley, a mother who's done just that. In today's episode is a little bit

0:51.7

longer but it is so powerful.

0:54.1

And I've been praying that this conversation would empower other parents

0:58.5

living through their worst fears.

1:00.8

And this is not a message just for parents who have lost a child, but this is one that you might be a family or a friend who have lost a child. You might be a parent who lost a child years ago and have never dealt with the pain, or maybe you're

1:16.9

listening today and little do you know years down the road you might come face to face with your worst fear.

1:24.9

Today's episode is one that we can all hear and all learn from. So Kathy, I want to thank you for joining me here on Fearless Today.

1:40.0

And as I said, many women here in this office, we look up to you for many different reasons.

1:45.6

I have myself come to you for advice on how to handle situations and life and raising my children.

1:52.4

So I'm thankful you are here, but you just wrote a book about losing your daughter

1:56.6

Natalie and the book's called Not My Plans.

2:00.7

And you, it's about facing your worst fear and the loss of a child that most parents can imagine.

2:07.6

And most of us will never probably walk through.

2:09.8

But many listening today have faced that,

2:13.9

and it's been years and years,

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