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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Jerry Sittser: Life After Loss

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How do you move forward after an incalculable loss?  Jerry Sittser lost his wife, young daughter, and his mom in one horrific accident. But even as his world stopped, the world kept spinning. He had to learn how to parent his three surviving children in the wake of such grief.  Now, thirty years after the accident that upended his life, Kate and Jerry discuss: Finding honesty about the pain you can never unknow  Why it isn’t possible to protect our kids from the tragedies of life How to stop counting or comparing people’s grief Why we cannot explain our suffering with simple formulas and shallow theology Whether miracles can solve our pain This conversation is an Everything Happens Masterclass on learning to live alongside the reality of lives that come apart for no reason we can explain.  CW: deaths of family members *** Find me on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to my weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy today. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

There are these little towels, clues everywhere.

0:07.7

Signs that this person has lived more lives than others.

0:12.1

Oh, strawberries.

0:14.4

My first wife used to love strawberries.

0:17.6

My son had a wonderful sense of humor.

0:19.8

You were never safe from a prank when he was around.

0:23.3

I used to be a pilot and a paint salesman and uh, well, that story's for another day.

0:29.9

I was driving past the hospital the other day with a very distinguished older man and I

0:35.7

asked him if he'd ever visited Duke before.

0:39.3

I haven't been back since my son died in that hospital, he said, tapping the window and

0:44.4

pointing at Duke University Hospital.

0:46.6

And in those moments, I am suddenly reminded again.

0:51.2

Yes, of course.

0:54.3

We live many lives.

0:58.3

My name is Kate Boehler and this is Everything Happens.

1:03.0

On this season of the podcast, we're going to be talking about various formulas we use

1:07.3

for how to live or as we'll be discussing today, how to grieve.

1:13.6

We all crave formulas, right?

1:16.5

Easy solutions and paths to a happier, better, more fulfilled life.

1:21.0

A life without pain or heartbreak or death or disease.

1:25.8

But no matter what the self-help culture tries to tell you, there is no amount of making

1:32.0

your bed that will help you overcome grief.

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