Nancy DeMasse Walgamuth has a serious question for parents.

All children will die at some point, whether it's before you or after you.

The question is will you have done what you could to prepare them to meet God? This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walden, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For February 1st, 2023, I'm Dana Gresch. Parents who love their children are bound to go through some seasons of pain. You invest your life in another person but sometimes the results aren't what you expect.

Nancy offers hope and perspective to parents in this series, Wisdom for Parents from Job Chapter 1. But I want to let you know this message isn't

only for parents, it's for anyone who's facing adversity. Here's Nancy.

Well if you followed Revive Our Hearts for any length of time, you know that I love doing

extended series unpacking whole passages or books of the Bible.

So we spent weeks on the Lord's prayer, we've spent weeks on

Psalm 23. I think we spent weeks on like the first three verses of the book of Habakic

at one point and months on a series on Titus 2 and the churches in Revelation 2 and

and 3 so I love doing that deep dive into passage as a scripture but sometimes I really

enjoy doing a simple short reflection something I've been meditating on in the course of my personal devotions, and I don't want to have to wait to develop a long series on it.

In fact, in the front of my Bible, I keep a running list of some of the things I've been thinking about meditating on, passages

of scripture that have been speaking to me that may not end up being a big long whole

series but just two or three days of reflection and I want to share one of those with you today and tomorrow.

And let me introduce it this way.

I have as I'm sure you do a lot of friends who are carrying pretty heavy burdens about one or more of their children.

And I was talking this week with a woman that's in our area who's a single mom and she's, her kids are

kids are like high school and young adult and she was saying I had no idea

that having young adult children would be more difficult than having these children when they were little.

Well it's difficult in a different sort of way, she said.

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