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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Tatum Green and Annie F. Downs describe the heartbreaking loss of Tatum’s 2nd child, TJ, who only lived for 56 days. In addition to navigating her own grief, Tatum also had to help her 2-year-old son Sam deal with the loss of his baby brother. A powerful program about trusting God and finding joy even in devastating grief.
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0:00.0 | One of my initial thoughts the day we got TJ's diagnosis is what about Sam? |
0:09.0 | And almost just as instantly I thought, you know, no one's life looks the way they want it to be. |
0:17.0 | Everyone has places of pain and disappointment, and that's where Jesus meets us. And I'm going to have to |
0:22.5 | trust Jesus that he's going to do that for Sam. Well, that's Tatum Green, describing the heartbreaking |
0:29.9 | situation of having to tell her young boy that his sibling would not survive. This is Focus on the |
0:36.8 | family with Jim Daly, and today we're exploring |
0:38.8 | the topic of loss and how to navigate the grief that comes from that, especially in terms |
0:45.4 | of our faith. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, someone has said this about infant loss. |
0:51.9 | There's a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your |
0:56.2 | heart for a child who never comes or never becomes that teenager, that adult. |
1:02.2 | And it's such a unique spot. |
1:04.1 | My brother and sister-in-law lost their son to cancer at 29. |
1:09.3 | And I asked him one time, is there a day that goes by that you |
1:13.5 | don't think of Bobby? And he said, never. Never a morning that goes by, never an afternoon. And it just |
1:20.9 | shows you the depth of the pain of that. And it doesn't come with an explanation. I mean, I don't |
1:27.3 | know that we can figure it out and you can talk to God. |
1:30.1 | And I don't know. |
1:31.5 | It's one of those Job experiences. |
1:33.7 | And today we're going to talk with two very special guests about that experience and what it meant to them. |
1:40.5 | Yeah. |
1:41.0 | And we turn to God and we ask why. |
1:42.8 | And as you said, Jim, there aren't answers, but I think |
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