Living Through Loss: Redefining Life and Finding Strength After Grief - Carl Lentz & Amanda Kloots

Lights On with Carl Lentz

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Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Carl & Amanda dive deep into the realities of grief and resilience. Amanda Kloots shares her powerful journey of losing her husband to COVID repercussions, reflecting on how grief reshaped her life and inspired her to embrace a new beginning. From the silent support of friends to practical tools like asking, "What would they want for me?" we explore how to move forward without letting grief become a prison. This conversation is a raw, honest, and uplifting look at how love, loss, and faith intersect, with insights on staying connected to purpose, breaking societal labels, and cutting new ground as a woman. A must-watch for anyone seeking hope and strength through life’s most challenging moments.

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0:00.0	I lost my husband in 2020 after a 95-day battle from the repercussions of COVID.
0:08.1	I am asking again for all the prayers, mega prayers.
0:13.1	I learned that I started grieving as soon as he was in the hospital.
0:17.0	My brain was 99.9% hope he's getting out of that hospital.
0:21.7	A good friend of mine lost his father and he was with him in the final weeks.
0:27.6	And I was like, just so you know, like you're already grieving.
0:30.4	Like it's already happened.
0:32.1	And then a new widow friend of mine, she said to me, she was like, I just, I want to start my new life. Like, when will
0:38.9	that start? I go, honey, it's already started. I look back on some of the tools. I had a really
0:43.3	rough chapter. And some of the tools that I picked up there, I'm using, even though it's not as
0:48.9	rough, it's like, no, this is still really, is there anything like that that you were like, this got me through when I felt
0:55.0	like I couldn't get up in the moon? I always think about what Nick would want me to do.
0:58.8	So you're using that for your gain rather than trying to push it out. It sounds like you're
1:03.8	using grief as a weapon rather than a prison, which is everybody's option, meaning like rather
1:09.5	than be trapped in it, you're standing on it
1:12.5	to be able to get things from it and be able to use it
1:15.5	because you cannot outrun it.
1:16.7	Like, I think when you're experiencing grief,
1:18.9	like you truly really do realize that it will never end.
1:22.6	And that's also beautiful because grief is unexpressed love,
1:29.7	and so grief can be all things. Play the B-side.
1:31.1	You got the A side of life and the B-side of life.
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