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Losing Love, Finding Hope: Mattie's Story
Though many of you have followed NaSHEville and She’s in the City for a while now, for both our long-term friends and our new ones, we want to spend some time taking a deeper look at the missions closest to our heart: trafficking victims, widows, and orphans and vulnerable children. This week the host becomes the guest, and Mattie shares her story of growing up in the spotlight and how her family’s platform enabled her to speak publicly about the tragic loss of her husband, Ben.
From the first days of building NaSHEville, widows have been on our hearts, because Scriptures reveals over and over again how close they are to God’s hearts:
- “Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17
- “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27
What many don’t know is that Mattie’s husband accident happened after NaSHEville was already in the works. All of the sudden she found herself widowed at 28 with an organization already committed to serving women across the country who were now just like her.
Mattie shares about the twelve day battle of praying and hoping for her husband’s healing, and how ultimately, she didn’t get the miracle from God she and countless others had been praying for. Since then she has walked out nearly three years of grieving for the world to witness, hoping above all else to point anyone suffering back to Jesus, the only One able to heal our deepest wounds.
“Ben was the love of my life. I lost my best friend, my marriage, and a lot of myself on the day he died. And while I’ve since questioned and bargained with and gotten angry at God for letting Ben go, I have also never known him or trusted him or relied on him more deeply than I do today. The valley of the shadow of death is a real place we will all face if not once, many times, in our lives. But God is just as gracious in the valley as he is on mountaintops, if not more! And hear me: Christ is more than enough to endure anything you may face.”
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Though many of you have followed NaSHEville and She’s in the City for a while now, for both our long-term friends and our new ones, we want to spend some time taking a deeper look at the missions closest to our heart: trafficking victims, widows, and orphans and vulnerable children. This week the host becomes the guest, and Mattie shares her story of growing up in the spotlight and how her family’s platform enabled her to speak publicly about the tragic loss of her husband, Ben.
From the first days of building NaSHEville, widows have been on our hearts, because Scriptures reveals over and over again how close they are to God’s hearts:
- “Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17
- “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27
What many don’t know is that Mattie’s husband accident happened after NaSHEville was already in the works. All of the sudden she found herself widowed at 28 with an organization already committed to serving women across the country who were now just like her.
Mattie shares about the twelve day battle of praying and hoping for her husband’s healing, and how ultimately, she didn’t get the miracle from God she and countless others had been praying for. Since then she has walked out nearly three years of grieving for the world to witness, hoping above all else to point anyone suffering back to Jesus, the only One able to heal our deepest wounds.
“Ben was the love of my life. I lost my best friend, my marriage, and a lot of myself on the day he died. And while I’ve since questioned and bargained with and gotten angry at God for letting Ben go, I have also never known him or trusted him or relied on him more deeply than I do today. The valley of the shadow of death is a real place we will all face if not once, many times, in our lives. But God is just as gracious in the valley as he is on mountaintops, if not more! And hear me: Christ is more than enough to endure anything you may face.”