A Biblical Response to Miscarriage on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems that people face. One of the most painful realities any person can experience in this

fallen world is the loss of a child to miscarriage. Our guest today on Truth and Love is Rebecca

Hannah, who is a certified counselor with ACBC,

and who works for Christian Union doing biblical counseling on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.

Rebecca is a woman who has gone through the pain of miscarriage twice in her life and has done ministry with

women who have gone through it in their own lives. And I'm so thankful that Rebecca is here

to help us think through these issues and a biblical response today. Rebecca, we're glad you're with

us. Why don't you begin by telling us about your own story in this regard? Yeah, when I first endured my first couple of miscarriages, I was already counseling people.

So I already had a biblical framework for comfort and hope, working through those particular

things in my own heart, obviously as we do first.

The hard part was going through the different

stages of the miscarriage. So going to the doctor, ending up in the ER, having the DNC,

and then afterward explaining it to people, having to respond to people in different ways. And

each time you experience one of those things, having to deal with the

emotions, deal with the heart, understand how you're going to respond not only internally to the

Lord, but also outward to the people around you. My wife and I experienced a miscarriage, and it was

sort of a midterm miscarriage. And we walked through so many of those things,

including having to announce to a church who we just said,

hey, we're going to have a baby,

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