Helping those who have been widowed on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, 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.

Today, I am joined by Lance Quinn, who is pastor at Bethany Bible in Thousand Oaks, California.

And he's also transitioning from that role as pastor, which he's done for many years,

into the executive vice president's role at the

Expositor's Seminary. I love Lance. Lance is a dear friend who is also a board member with

ACBC, and I love conversations like this sitting down and having wisdom. To be honest, we really

almost didn't get to the podcast today because we're enjoying conversation together so much. But I think this is a really important topic for us to discuss today,

especially in the COVID era, when we do have what we would consider to be unexpected,

certainly not outside of the knowledge of the Lord, but from a human perspective,

some unexpected widowing that's happening where spouses are dying and how do we

deal with questions like that. Lance is in a unique position where he recently lost his wife,

Beth, and I wanted Lance to be able to express and explain from experience what that's like,

but then drive us to the word as his heart has been driven

to the word to deal with the deep loss and grief that a person walks through. And then so many

questions that a person has when they experience the loss of a spouse, a loss of a partner. So,

Lance, I'm so grateful you're here. I'm thankful that you're willing to talk about issues like this that are deep and difficult. But I think we're in a position today where I think the things that you're going to say from God's Word are going to be super helpful to a lot of people around the country and even the world. So Lance, I want you to start off if you can just describing your scenario, a little bit

about your experience, your dear wife, Beth, and now that she's with the Lord. But there was a

long process that you guys walked through of sickness, illness, and eventually in her passing. And so

could you just describe what that's like to some degree for our listeners? Well, Dale, it's great to be with you.

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