DiscoverRun to the Hard PodcastEp 32: The Weight of Parenting 9 Kids While Grieving Your Wife
Ep 32: The Weight of Parenting 9 Kids While Grieving Your Wife

Ep 32: The Weight of Parenting 9 Kids While Grieving Your Wife

Update: 2025-05-20
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You will NOT believe the compounded grief that's just been added to our story.

This episode was recorded right before another tragedy, so when we sat down to talk about the overwhelm of 2.5 years of grieving, trying to get your life back on track, guiding and raising 9 children from multiple families, and being weighed down by it all while learning to trust God in the process...we couldn't imagine it could get more complicated.

Listen in and be encouraged, because despite everything that's happening, we know God is good, and He is redeeming everything.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

5:28 Overwhelm: 2.5 years of grief

11:12 Pressure

16:14 Does grief stunt growth?

22:01 How to lead without letting guilt make the decisions

26:21 Blending two grieving families

34:26 Raising boys

41:40 The 4 types of grievers

47:20 Encouragement from Megan, who lost both parents at 14

58:42 How God uses His people to accomplish His purposes

 

MENTIONED

Finding Motivation After Grief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUyEpQEmBg

2 Years After Grief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84kfHysGE9k

Crystal Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8JVCqZsW4Y

Lonnie Potts episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56FDX1Pi6HI&t=1s

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Ep 32: The Weight of Parenting 9 Kids While Grieving Your Wife

Ep 32: The Weight of Parenting 9 Kids While Grieving Your Wife