Welcome to the Nothing is Wasted Podcast, conversations designed to help you as you live, learn and lead through pain.

And now the host of the Nothing Is Wasted podcast, Davy Blackburn.

Hello, welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast. My name is Davey, and joining me on this special

episode that kicks off 2020, I've got our co-host Mel and my beautiful bride

Christie. Yeah.

Thanks to join us. It's good to be back. Oh man this is going to be special. We want to do this because we're going to do a little mini series.

We've done this in the past. We've done a little mini series in our intros and I want to talk a little bit about

how to support other people as they're walking through pain,

as they're walking through grief, as they're walking through trial, and we're going to

parse this out into several different ways to support different types of people in your life, the places that people populate in your life,

they had different roles in your life, and so we want to kind of talk about each one of those,

and I thought it would be awesome to bring my beautiful

bride on here because we want to I mean people are always asking to hear more from

you well I feel like people think I'm an expert and I'm like young in my 30s. Let's just say that. So people think 30s are old. I'm in my, you know, younger years in my 30s and I feel like I still have a lot more to go through. So we be honest though like your life what you've lived

you might as well with your experience be 70 years old I mean live so much the Lord has

blessed me with a lot of trials let's just say that so So yes. That is it is a blessing. Consider all joy when you walk through

trials. Trials can be a blessing and it's can be a blessing to other people because you're going to

share your wisdom and Mel you're going to share some wisdom on how do we support other people because you're going to share your wisdom and Mel you're going to

share some wisdom on how do we support other people and so this particular

episode we want to talk about how do we support our spouses how do we support our

spouses when it comes to, let's say your spouse is walking through something hard,

whether it's, you know, like they have lost somebody in their life, they've lost a close family member, or maybe you married a widow or a widower or they're just

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