The Death & Resurrection Doula Podcast

Love Beyond the Grave: A Widow's Story


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Meet Gloria Massingill, a widow and hospice bereavement group speaker, sharing her inspiring journey through grief, faith, and service. Discover how faith transforms pain into purpose, the importance of hospice care, and the power of community in healing.

Gloria joins the Death & Resurrection Doula podcast from Mobile, AL. She is a faithful Christian woman with a heart for ministry! She loves to serve God in helping shape the hearts and minds of the young and old. She is a retired preschool and kindergarten teacher, a mother and grandmother, and the widow of the love of her life, Kenny. The early education classroom gave her an opportunity to witness to young families and now, after one year of widowhood, Gloria spends her time witnessing to new widows through a hospice bereavement group. In this episode, Gloria shares about human weakness and God's transforming power to save and renew love. Her love story with Kenny will leave you longing to love like Christ more and more each day.

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(00:00) Introducing Gloria and the Saad Hospice Retreat Center
(01:46) Meeting Ken as a High School Sweetheart
(03:37) A Teaching Career That Became a Ministry
(06:12) Marriage Transformed Through Christ
(07:13) Walking Through the Deaths of Their Parents Together
(11:20) Grieving Ken’s Absence, Not His Healing
(15:07) Bereavement, Brokenness, and a New Ministry
(19:00) Learning to Live as a Widow
(22:18) Carrying Ken’s Legacy Forward
(26:20) Ministering From the Place of Brokenness
(30:30) A Marriage That Reflected God’s Love
(31:35) The Last Dance to “The Goodness of God”
(34:14) The Final Ambulance Ride and Sacred Goodbye

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