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After our child leaves this earth, most of us want to take Romans 8:28 out of our Bibles, especially when people throw that verse at us in a way that is supposed to make it all better. (“Remember, God promises to work everything out for good…”)

Laura has been in that place of suffocating darkness, and begged God to take her from this earth when her daughter, Becca, died. In today’s episode, you will hear what Laura has to share about this topic, after years of tears behind her.

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Isaac Wills was born on May 10 and is forever 17.

Leah Van Emmerik was born on May 13 and is forever 39.

Jordan Slusher was born on May 17 and is forever 21.

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The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

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To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

If you know Laura, you know that she feels things deeply and tears come easily to her. Somehow, she manages to hold those tears back when recording the podcast episodes… but not this time.

A miracle is something only God can do, which is what we wanted (and even expected) for our children, either in a healing or in protection. When that doesn’t happen, our disappointment and even anger with God can make us feel like He betrayed us.

Listen in today to what Laura shares deeply from her heart about God and his miracles in our lives.

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Weekend of Hope in Wisconsin this August!!! Find out more  here.

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Denzel Goredema was born on May 5 and is forever 28.

Adam Walker was born on May 6 and is forever 28.

Michael Slater was born on May 8 and is forever 26.

Sarah Wilber was born on May 10 and is forever 34.

Justis Bjergo was born on May 10 and is forever 26.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

Mother’s Day can be one of the most difficult days of the year for a mom after child loss. In this episode, Laura will be talking about both Mother’s Day, and a special day the week before, which is International Bereaved Mother’s Day, which is the first Sunday in May.

Laura is  very real and honest about her thoughts and feelings about all of this, in a way that isn’t normally like her.  But Mother’s Day is one of the hardest days we have to face each year, and there is no reason to not admit it or try to sugar coat it.

She closes by praying over each mom who is listening. We need extra strength, and God is the only one who can give that to us.

Note: The main content of this episode is pulled from the archives of episode 106.

Blog about International Bereaved Mother’s Day

A Letter to My Child on Bereaved Mother’s Day 

GPS Hope Facebook Page

Information about joining GPS Hope on a cruise.

Christi Gayheart was born on April 29 and is forever 49.

Eric Merciers was born on May 1 and is forever 38.

Milo Kostrna bloomed on earth to blossom in heaven on May 3.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

So much horrific pain and darkness comes with child loss. It doesn’t matter how young or how old your child was when they left this earth. It doesn’t matter if it was sudden or if it was long and drawn out.

As pareavors (bereaved parents), we can bristle when others say they know how we feel, because of a different loss. We know what that feels like. But what about when we compare our child’s loss to another parent’s loss? What about when we compare where we are in our grief with where another parent is (or was) in some sort of timeline?

We rarely make those comparisons out loud, but we can have these thoughts, which is what Laura talks about in today’s episode.

Note: Today’s episode is being sponsored by Jeff and Mary Beth Patnaude, in honor of their son, Michael Patnaude.

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Listen to podcast episode 174: Our Dreams About Our Children After Child Loss

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Christopher Schofer was born on April 21 and is forever 25.

Shannon Chevalier was born on April 21 and is forever 27.

Stephen Francis Reeve was born on April 25 and is forever 25.

Bradley Brown was born on April 27 and is forever 17.

Michael Patnaude was born on April 27 and is forever 21.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

After the loss of a child, there are scriptures that used to get us excited that don’t make any sense now.  They seem untrue and maybe even cruel.

In today’s episode, Laura talks about one of those verses, Jeremiah 29:11, where God tells us He has good plans for us, to give us hope and a future.

Click here for all the info and to register for the Ohio GPS Hope & Healing Retreat, May 24-26.

COME JOIN US for our Weekend of Hope in Wisconsin this August!!! Find out more  here.

To find out more about joining Dave and Laura next year (February of 2025) on The Grief Cruise, click here.

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Sponsor a podcast episode in honor of your child. Go here to choose the week and make your $50 donation.

Brandon Matos was born on April 14 and is forever 23.

Mylei Birdinground was born on April 16 and is forever 15.

Briana Martinez was born on April 17 and is forever 17.

Cayman Ben Jardell was born on April 19 and is forever 17.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

Today’s topic is one Laura gets asked about in emails, which is addressing the issue of losing friends we thought would be there for us in our time of grief.

Laura and her guest, June Collins, talk about this from June’s experience of losing her 2-year-old son 12 years ago. Their conversation has a lot of nuggets that go beyond what or who we may lose, but also what and who we can gain.

Note: Today’s podcast episode is sponsored by Dave and Laura Diehl, in honor of their daughter, Becca.

June K. Collins is a Master NLP Practitioner and Coach. In 2012, she lost her son, Kaleb, and found herself hitting rock bottom and not understanding how to rebuild her life without Kaleb in it. During this time, she found a passion with the mind and how individuals react to trauma. Through her own experience and education, she now helps other women rebuild and find purpose in their life and is the author of the book Momma, You Don’t Heal.

Connect with June Collins on her website: theserenitydreamer.com

Click here for all the info and to register for the Ohio GPS Hope & Healing Retreat, May 24-26.

COME JOIN US for our Weekend of Hope in Wisconsin this August!!! Find out more  here.

To find out more about joining Dave and Laura next year (February of 2025) on The Grief Cruise, click here.

Sponsor a podcast episode in honor of your child. Go here to choose the week and make your $50 donation.

Greg London was born on April 8 and is forever 34.

Becca Diehl Howard was born on April 13 and is forever 29.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

If I am struggling with anger and confusion and my faith is rocky right now, shouldn’t I pass on taking the elements of communion?

In today’s episode, Laura digs into 1 Corinthians 11, talking about the purpose of communion and what makes us “unworthy”. Based on scripture, Laura believes that we are not disqualified. Not only that, but occasionally taking the elements is greatly needed and can be even more meaningful to us now, after the death of our child.

She also talks about how many pareavors just cannot drag themselves to church, and why it is not against any of God’s “rules” to serve yourself communion, having a very personal and private time with the Lord while taking the bread and the wine/juice in your home or wherever you are.

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Jonda Steinkamp was born on April 2 and is forever 4 ½ months old.

Amie Bichard was born on April 5 and is forever 45.

Danielle Smith was born on April 6 and is forever 36.

Travis Atkinson was born on April 6 and is forever 42.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

Easter Sunday can come with many different emotions for those of us who have lost a child.

On one hand, we are thankful and want to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, who made it possible for us to be reunited with our children, never to be separated again. On the other hand, many of us struggle with going to a church service for this purpose, for various reasons which can be absolutely valid.

In today’s episode, Laura talks about all of this, along with reminding us of the hope we all have within us. God’s resurrection power isn’t just for when we die, but for those of us who are still here, learning how to live with a part of us missing.

Click here to listen to Laura and Pastor Lynn Breeden talk about why you don’t need to be tormented with the fear that your child might not be in heaven.

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Jermaine Mitchell was born on March 26 and is forever 31.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

When we have a child who is no longer with us here on earth, we can feel like we have no more future – at least not a good one.

In today’s episode, Laura looks at Philippians 3:12-14 and other scriptures, sharing that even if our future here is not what we thought it would be, we do not have to live out the rest of our time here with a heaviness that outweighs the joy of the future we still have with our child.

Check out our Hold On Pain Eases there is HOPE shirts here!

To find out how to join Dave and Laura next year (February of 2025) on The Grief Cruise, click here.

COME JOIN US for our big GPS Hope 10-year-event (Weekend of Hope) in Wisconsin this August!!! Find out more  here.

Taraoluwa Chizoba was born on March 17 and is forever 7.

Adan William F. Tejada was born on March 17 and is forever 17.

Daniel Wilson was born on March 21 and is forever 30.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

When we lose a child from this earth, we want to be done here and go be with them. Even if our head knows we have reasons to stay, our heart struggles to accept it. The pain and darkness can be all-consuming, and we cannot believe life will ever be worth living without our child.

Podcast host, Laura Diehl, knows what that is like. In this episode, she will share some specific ways to help other parents, who find themselves on this same unwanted journey of child loss, change their perspective that life will never be good again. Your life can have meaning and purpose again, and this is not in spite of your child’s death, but because of his or her life.

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Click here for the song I Surrender All sung by Stephen McWhirter.

To find out how to join Dave and Laura next year (February of 2025) on The Grief Cruise, click here.

COME JOIN US for our big GPS Hope 10-year-event (Weekend of Hope) in Wisconsin this August!!! Find out more  here.

Steven Kowalewski was born on March 11 and is forever 28.

Quintin T. Flowers was born on March 12 and is forever 54.

Matthew Branca was born on March 15 and is forever 23.

Rohit Matthew was born on March 16 and is forever 23.

Adam Block was born on March 16 and is forever 34.

Zachary Sutton was born on March 16 and is forever 32.

Danielle Jerome was born on March 16 and is forever 32.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

www.gpshope.org

To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected].

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.