A few days after her husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Margaret Nyman cried out to the Lord.

You know what? I think I'm going to be alone. I think I'm going to end up alone.

And I just kind of cried out to God that tears started coming and said, I don't want this. I don't want this. I don't want this. Again and again. So as far as I got,

I don't want it. I don't want it. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss

Wogamuth, author of Lies Women Believe for February 26, 2018.

I suspect that there are hardly any of us listening to this program today who haven't been

affected in some way by death of a loved one, perhaps a parent or a grandparent, a mate, even

a child, a grandchild. And we know that that separation of death, especially those that you're close to and that you love,

it's painful.

It hurts.

And we want to talk about the loss, particularly of a mate over these next few days,

as I'm talking with my friend Margaret Nyman, who's written a book called Hope for an Aking Heart.

Margaret, welcome to revive our hearts, and thank you for joining me for this conversation today.

Thanks so much for inviting me.

And I love the fact that in this book, well, there are a number of things I like about it, one that you share out of your life and your journey of the loss of a mate. We'll talk

about that over the next few days. But even in the titling of the book, you acknowledge that

there's ache that is deep and profound and painful, but also that there's hope and that

both go together. And thank the Lord that in Christ, we don't just have to endure the ache that there really is

hope through Christ to help us walk through those difficult journeys.

And you've experienced that in your own life.

Absolutely.

Jesus Christ has become so more real to me as a partner through life than he ever was before when I had a husband because when that void

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