Sharing Isaac's Story (Podcast 90)

The Durenda Wilson Podcast

Durenda Wilson

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Kids & Family:parenting

4.9 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today we are celebrating the life of our grandson, Isaac who would have just had his 6th birthday. He was our first grandbaby and Brittney and Jacob's first baby. This is the first time that we have shared his story publicly. Brittney was careful not to tell the story too soon, but allow God to do the work and healing that He needed to do in her own heart first. This isn't something you can rush. It's a kind of waiting on God that, though excruciating at times, brings with it deeper healing and perspective that nothing else can. When you lose someone, you are never the same. We wanted to give this story the time it deserves, so we have lingered over it and taken our time telling it in this podcast. We hope that you will listen with a heart that will hear the realness, but also the message of hope and redemption that so beautifully describes our experience and clearly reveals the faithfulness of our great God in a very powerful way! Our prayer is that this story will bring encouragement, but also provide tools for moms to care for others they know who are called to walk the journey of stillbirth. One song that was a huge comfort to Brittney during the healing process was by Matt Redmond, called "Never Once". She created a video featuring this song in hopes that it would paint an accurate picture of God's comfort in the midst of grief. (Suggestion: it will be more meaningful if you watch it after you listen to the podcast!) In the next podcast we will talk about Brittney's struggle with PTSD and subsequent pregnancies and births. In the third and final podcast, we will be sharing her most recent birth which is an awesome and miraculous story!!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to this week's podcast. I'm Durenda Wilson, owner and host of the podcast. I'm here to share my heart with you. Today I have a very special guest and I'm
0:23.1	going to introduce her in just a minute. But right now I just want to welcome anyone who's new
0:30.6	listening to the podcast. If you don't know me, I've been married to Daryl for 30 years and we have
0:35.7	eight kids ages 15 to 28 and we have six grandkids.
0:41.3	And today on my podcast, I have my daughter here with me.
0:47.3	As most of you know, we lost our first grandson to stillbirth almost six years ago.
0:53.3	This was our daughter, Brittany, and her husband
0:56.3	Jacob's first baby. And our family grieved, but we also grew through this deep loss, both
1:03.6	individually and as a family. God's presence was just tangible in the midst of our loss.
1:13.4	It's like the Bible says, we grieved,
1:21.2	but not as those who have no hope. Today, Brittany is joining me to tell her story. She was careful not to tell the story too soon, but allow God to do the work that he needed to do in her own
1:27.4	heart before she did that.
1:29.6	Because really, guys, this isn't something you can rush.
1:32.2	It is a kind of waiting on God that though excruciating at times brings with it a deeper healing and perspective that nothing else can.
1:43.7	So we will be telling Isaac's story, but also in another
1:47.7	podcast, we'll be talking about the succeeding pregnancies and births because I don't think that
1:53.5	people realize how life-changing this kind of loss is. It's messy and it stays messy for a long, long time, but God is in the messiness. And that is
2:05.0	exactly where he loves to meet us. Brittany, thank you for being here today. I'm excited to do this.
2:12.7	I am excited to. And this is a special day to do this. It really is. Today is the day that Isaac actually was born.
2:20.2	So we lost him yesterday, six years ago, and today he was actually birthed. And I can't remember.
2:28.4	You told me, do they issue a birth certificate or only a death certificate? Both. They did both.
2:34.6	Yes.
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