When you're suffering, you have a unique opportunity to reach out to other suffering people.

Here's Nancy Guthrie.

Now, many women and men will say to me, well, I really can't reach out to somebody until I'm better myself.

And I'm here to tell you tonight the way you become better yourself is to begin to reach out to other people.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Tuesday, August 27th.

Well, yesterday we began hearing the story of Nancy Guthrie, whose daughter Hope was born with a rare

congenital disorder and died several months later. Nancy shared openly about the deep grief that she

and her husband experienced in the midst of that journey, and she pointed us to God's word and

showed us some wise, practical steps

for dealing with grief, not only in the short term and the immediate crisis, but over the

long haul. Now, Nancy's story is so touching, and if you missed any of yesterday's program,

you can hear it at revive our hearts.com. Today, Nancy will continue showing us how to deal with grief in a way that is honest and healthy

and can ultimately result in an even richer, more fruitful walk with the Lord.

Let's listen to Nancy Guthrie.

The second hard choice I think we have to make is to refuse to insist that our loss remain front and center

in our world, in our interactions, in our relationships.

I think this is especially difficult for those of us who have gone through a loss where perhaps

it was a long medical condition, where everybody got used to checking in with us for the latest

medical or treatment report. And every time we went to church, they were asking,

how's it going? And every week at Bible study, they were praying for the treatment or for

the person or for whatever it is. And every time we walked into church, everybody asked us,

what's going on? And then for a while after the death,

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