grieving the loved ones we've lost on this edition of Truth and 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.

We have listeners to truth and love all over the world, but this week in the United States,

we are celebrating Memorial Day. That is a federal holiday in the United States to commemorate

the loss of loved ones, particularly those who

have died in war. Memorial Day began in the 1860s called Decoration Day as Union soldiers were

commemorated for their death in the American Civil War. In the ensuing decades, Confederate soldiers began to have their

deaths be commemorated, and by the 20th century, it was made a national holiday for all veterans of all

foreign wars. Many take the opportunity on Memorial Day not just to commemorate the deaths of

men and women who have died in battle, but to remember all of those

who they care about who have died in years past. It's really valuable for us to remember the

importance of this holiday because so many in America use it as the official start of summer,

and we're happy for the rejoicing and the cookouts and the pool

parties that are going to happen this week. But we also want to remember the very important

roots of the holiday. The producer of Truth in Love, Amy Evenson, is here to talk to us about

Memorial Day. Amy, happy Memorial Day. Same to you. So Memorial Day gets us thinking

about loved ones that we've lost. How should we think about grieving those that we've lost?

Yes. The reason I think that's a really important question is because in pastoral ministry,

I have known many people who have felt guilty for the grief that they've experienced and in the loss of a loved one. In the aftermath of the

death, sometimes Christians can think that they are unholy or ungodly if they're sad. Sometimes they can think that a full-blown

trust in the sovereign care of God will lead them to an embrace of his providence in a way that is

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