What do you do when the unthinkable happens? When your faith is tested and you are confronted with your greatest fears? On today’s episode of the Great Stories podcast, David Wollen speaks with three widows who know this grief well. They all lost their husbands around the same time, but then they found each other.
In their church community, Cherrie, Linda, and Susan are known collectively as “The Strand of Three.” Each of their testimonies are unique, but together they also have a shared testimony of loss, grief, and the Lord’s unending mercies. It’s a touching conversation that we pray will give you hope and encouragement for your own dark valleys.
A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.
Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” this short but powerful book is a beautiful and unflinchingly candid record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe … and how he can gradually regain his bearings. To read it is to come alongside him in his spiritual journey through grief.
In what may be one of Lewis’ most personal books, he deals honestly with the difficult questions raised by suffering, while confronting the anger and heartbreak we all feel when we experience a great loss. A Grief Observed helps us through our own spiritual journeys through grief by showing us how such times can be used by the Lord to lead us into Christlike maturity.
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Loved hearing 3 widows podcast. I have some friends & family I’m going to share with. Thank you ladies for sharing. Praise God for the works you are doing!
It was a blessing to hear of God’s gentle guiding presence through the losses of these dear women. To hear of hope, purpose, comfort, and friendship all planned and given by God. He is faithful!