When You Walk Through a Mourning Season
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Every couple goes through loss sometimes. John and Greg open up about times they went through loss in their marriages, and how God showed up during those times. Also, Jim and Jean Daly share how they worked through a season of mourning.
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| 0:00.0 | Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours? |
| 0:07.3 | That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called |
| 0:12.1 | Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges |
| 0:17.7 | that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally. |
| 0:22.8 | So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.6 | Every married couple, if you stay together any length of time, you're going to go through some loss. |
| 0:42.8 | And it's not like there's one season of loss. |
| 0:46.0 | There are multiple seasons of loss that you go through when you've been together for 10, 20, 30, 40 years. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm thinking, Greg, of the most significant loss that we went through together as a couple in the past few years. There have been losses of childhood dreams. |
| 1:05.0 | There have been losses of a variety of things. |
| 1:08.0 | But my mother-in-law moved in with us for her final few years. And it was |
| 1:12.5 | a sweet, very difficult time. And we still think and feel about her a lot. It was rich to go through |
| 1:21.7 | that with Dina. And I'm so glad that we could. I'm John Fuller, by the way, with Greg and Aaron |
| 1:27.4 | in the studio. And you're walking through a tough season right now with Aaron, aren't you? |
| 1:33.0 | I literally are. |
| 1:34.0 | I mean, just as you were about to open this recording up, Aaron received a picture from a good friend of hers who lives in the same city where her dad's at and in her |
| 1:47.8 | father's in hospice so final stages of his life and so just sent her a picture of them and it just |
| 1:58.1 | it's so touching so it's such a beautiful picture. |
| 2:02.6 | And so yeah, right now we're just, we're walking that season out with, with her dad. |
| 2:08.6 | And, you know, it's probably, you know, the final week of his life. |
| 2:13.6 | But it was so cool that that when Aaron and our youngest daughter, Annie, were able to fly down |
| 2:18.9 | last week. And although he's not really able to talk much, he did ask, you know, how do I know |
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