New Mercy Moms - Hope and Grief Podcast

Some losses do not come one at a time.

For many grieving parents, pain layers. One loss follows another. Hope feels interrupted. And you may quietly wonder how much more your heart can carry.

In this episode, we talk honestly about layers of pain and loss and what it looks like to keep going when grief feels relentless. This conversation is for the parent who feels worn down by repeated sorrow and is searching for something steady to hold onto.

This is not about pushing through or being strong.
It is about learning where to place your weight when grief keeps coming.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• Why repeated loss can feel especially heavy and disorienting (00:47)
• How Scripture anchors us when grief keeps coming (04:26)
• Why God’s strength matters more than our own endurance (05:36)
• How the stories of suffering believers can deepen faith
• Where lasting hope is found when circumstances do not improve (08:07)

This episode does not minimize suffering or offer easy conclusions. It offers Jesus-centered hope for parents learning how to live faithfully when grief comes in waves.

Resources and Stories Mentioned

We reference ministries, teachings, and music that point to God’s faithfulness in the midst of suffering

• The Voice of the Martyrs
  Stories of believers who remain faithful through extreme suffering
• Hearts of Fire
  Testimonies of enduring faith in persecution
• Is God a Megalomaniac? (Desiring God)
  A reflection by John Piper on God’s glory and goodness
• Music Referenced
  • He Will Hold Me Fast - Keith and Kristyn Getty
  • Homesick for Heaven - Phil Wickham
  • Where I'm Standing Now - Phil Wickham (feat. Brandon Lake)
• Heaven by Randy Alcorn
  A biblical look at eternity and future hope

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care.

A Gentle Next Step 

If grief feels layered and heavy and you do not know how to keep going, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, to help you come to God honestly when strength feels gone.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

After child loss, something unexpected can happen: you start noticing other hurting people everywhere.

A friend loses a baby.
A neighbor gets a hard diagnosis.
Someone shares a quiet story of heartbreak.

And you may wonder, How do I show up for them when I’m still grieving too?
Or, How do I share my faith without sounding shallow or forced?

In this episode, we talk about comforting others through grief, with honesty, gentleness, and a Jesus-centered approach that makes room for real pain.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• What to say (and what not to say) when someone is grieving 
• Why your presence can matter more than your advice (00:47)
• How to share Jesus gently without minimizing someone’s pain (06:15)
• Why honesty is often the most loving thing you can offer (11:40)
• Simple ways to pray for others when you do not have the right words

This episode is not about becoming an expert in grief. It is about learning how to love people well while staying rooted in truth and tenderness.

Resources and Scripture Mentioned

• Grieve Well Resource
  A practical tool created to help grieving parents process loss with intention and biblical grounding.
• Psalm 88 (ESV)
  A grief-heavy Psalm that validates what it feels like to be in darkness, and reminds us the Bible makes room for honest sorrow.
• How Jesus Helps Us
  A companion blog post on how Jesus meets us personally after deep tragedy. This is a great resource as to how we can share God meeting us in our grief.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care for grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step 

If you want to support others but feel like you barely have strength for your own grief, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and designed to help you come to God honestly when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

After the loss of a child, life can feel deeply unfair.

You did not choose this pain.
You did not ask for this story.
And it can be hard to reconcile such deep loss with a God who is said to be good.

In this episode, we talk honestly about what it looks like to trust God when life feels unfair, especially in the wake of child loss. This conversation is for the grieving parent who is wrestling with jealousy, anger, comparison, or quiet questions about God’s goodness.

This is not a call to pretend things are okay.
It is an invitation to bring your real questions into God’s presence.

• Why feelings of unfairness are common and valid after child loss (00:47)
• How comparison and jealousy can quietly grow in grief
• What Scripture shows us about suffering and God’s purposes
• Why questioning God’s goodness is not a failure of faith (08:17)
• How Jesus meets us when life does not make sense

This episode does not rush resolution or demand trust you are not ready to give. It offers space, truth, and Jesus-centered hope for parents learning how to hold faith and grief at the same time.

Referenced in This Episode

• Psalm 17

A prayer of honesty and dependence, where David cries out to God in the midst of injustice and asks God to see, hear, and act.

• John 9:2-3

This passage reminds us that suffering is not always something to explain, but a place where God’s presence and power are revealed.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care for grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step 

If trusting God feels hard right now and you do not know how to pray through the unfairness you are carrying, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and designed to help you come to God honestly when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

After child loss, survival often becomes the goal.

Not healing.
Not clarity.
Just getting through the day without falling apart.

In this episode, we talk honestly about what helps when nothing helps. This conversation is for the grieving parent who feels worn down by the daily weight of loss and is looking for something steady to hold onto when grief feels relentless.

This episode does not promise relief or resolution. It acknowledges that survival itself is sacred work in grief, and that God meets us even in the smallest steps forward.

• Why survival is sometimes the bravest form of faith
• How practical tools can support grieving parents day by day (00:02:27)
• Why reminders of loss are unavoidable and how to navigate them gently (00:06:27)
• What it looks like to rely on God when emotional strength is depleted
• How faith and grief can coexist without pressure to feel better (00:11:35)

This episode offers companionship, honesty, and Jesus-centered support for parents learning how to live inside loss one day at a time.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

We reference a few practical supports created to walk alongside grieving parents

• Marriage 365
  A daily tool designed to help couples stay connected, especially during seasons of stress and grief.
• Grieve Well
  A printable resource sent right to our inbox created to help grieving parents process loss with intention, compassion, and biblical grounding.
• Surviving the Loss of a Child
  A blog post offering gentle, practical encouragement for parents who are simply trying to get through each day after loss.

These tools are meant to support you, not overwhelm you. Use what helps and set aside what does not.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care for grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step 

If grief has left you exhausted and unsure how to pray, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and meant to meet you honestly when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

Grief does not just live inside one person.
It enters a marriage and settles differently in each heart.

After the loss of a child, many couples find themselves asking hard questions they never expected to face. Why do we grieve so differently? Why does it feel harder to connect? Why do we love each other deeply and still feel so alone?

In this episode, we talk honestly about how child loss affects marriage and what it can look like to grieve together when pain, communication, and emotional capacity feel fragile.

This conversation is for grieving parents who love each other but feel unsure how to walk through loss side by side.

• Why child loss can strain even strong marriages (00:47)
• How differing grief responses can lead to misunderstanding
• Why creating emotional space matters for healing (04:44)
• How love and grief coexist inside a marriage (08:26)
• What it looks like to walk together without forcing sameness

This episode does not offer marriage formulas or quick fixes. It offers understanding, grace, and Jesus-centered compassion for couples learning how to survive loss together.

Marriage After Losing a Child

A compassionate look at how grief impacts marriage, communication, and connection, with encouragement for couples learning how to carry loss together.

You can read this slowly, return to it later, or share it with your spouse if that feels helpful.

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care for grieving hearts.

If grief has made it hard to pray, communicate, or even know what you need right now, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for those walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and designed to meet you honestly in seasons when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

When you are years into grief, hope can feel confusing.

You may wonder why the pain still shows up.
Why certain days still undo you.
Why healing does not look the way you thought it would.

In this episode, we talk honestly about what hope looks like one year, five years, or even ten years after losing a child. This conversation is for the grieving parent who is no longer in the earliest days of loss, yet still feels the ache deeply and wonders what the future can hold.

This is not about “moving on.”
It is about learning how to keep living while carrying love and loss together.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• Why hope changes shape over time after child loss (00:00:47)
• What healing can look like years into grief (00:04:58)
• How to live with ongoing longing without shame (00:06:29)
• Why still hurting does not mean you are doing grief wrong (00:10:56)
• How God meets us in long-term sorrow, not just the early days (00:16:12)

This episode does not promise resolution. It offers companionship, honesty, and Jesus-centered hope for the long road of grief.

Mentioned in This Episode

• Hope After Loss

  This blog post is a reflection on what hope can look like after the death of a child, especially when grief lasts longer than expected. This post offers the same information presented in this episode, just in an easy to read format. If reading feels more accessible than listening right now, start here.

• Resonating Resilience Playlist

  Music can reach places words cannot, especially on days when grief feels heavy. This is a resource many parents use during prayer, rest, or moments when emotions feel overwhelming.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care to grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step 

If you are years into grief and find it hard to pray or don’t even know what to say to God anymore, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and meant to meet you honestly in every season of grief.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

Where was God when my child died?

This is one of the most painful and honest questions a grieving parent can ask.

When your child dies, it can feel impossible to reconcile that loss with a God who is supposed to be loving, present, and good. The silence, the shock, and the unanswered prayers can leave you wondering where God was when everything fell apart.

My husband Josh and I answer your honest, raw questions and what it looks like a decade after loss. 

• Confronting our anger with God (00:04:26)
• How Scripture speaks to moments of devastating loss
• Learning how to trust God again (00:10:28)
• How Jesus meets us in suffering, not after it’s cleaned up (00:12:33)
• Why God’s presence does not always look the way we expect
• How to keep our faith through disappointment and struggles (00:17:45)

This episode does not rush answers or attempt to explain away your pain. It creates space for honesty and gently points grieving hearts toward a God who is near to the brokenhearted, even when the pain feels unbearable.

You are allowed to wrestle.
You are allowed to question.
And you are not alone in your grief.

• Where Was God When My Son Died?

  This episode pairs with our blog post. If listening feels too heavy right now, the blog offers the same encouragement in written form. You can read it slowly, pause often, and return to it when you have the strength.

• Infant Loss and Jesus’ Story

  In this post I talk about the story of losing my son, Jack. It offers a reflection on how Jesus understands deep loss personally, and how His love speaks to parents grieving the death of a baby or young child.

• Mad at God After the Loss of a Child

  An honest look at anger toward God after child loss, and why bringing that anger to Him is not a rejection of faith, but an act of trust.

• This Illness is for the Glory of God

  John Piper's sermon on John 11 reminds us that even suffering we would never choose is not meaningless, and that God’s glory is revealed not through avoiding death, but through His presence and power within it.

You don’t need to read all of these at once. They are here for you to return to when the questions resurface.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care for grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step

If your questions feel louder than your prayers right now, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and meant to help you come to God honestly, even when faith feels fragile.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

Mother’s Day can be incredibly painful when your child is missing.

For bereaved mothers, this day often brings a mix of sorrow, love, longing, and isolation. While others celebrate loudly, many grieving moms are quietly carrying the weight of children they still mother in their hearts.

In this episode, we talk honestly about Bereaved Mother’s Day and why it matters to acknowledge and honor mothers whose children are no longer here. This conversation is for the mom who feels unseen, unsure how to navigate Mother’s Day, or wonders if her motherhood still counts.

• Why Mother’s Day can be especially painful after child loss
• What it means to still be a mother when your child is not physically present
• How grief and love continue side by side for bereaved moms
• Why God sees and honors your motherhood, even when others do not
• How Jesus meets grieving mothers with compassion, not expectations

This episode does not try to soften the ache of Mother’s Day or rush you toward gratitude. It creates space to acknowledge the reality that Bereaved Mother’s Day exists because love does not end with death.

You are still a mother.
Your child still matters.
And your grief is not invisible to God.

This episode pairs with our blog post, Bereaved Mother’s Day, which offers written encouragement and validation for mothers grieving the loss of a child. If listening feels heavy, the blog provides a gentle place to sit with these truths and feel seen.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care for grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step

If Mother’s Day brings up more pain than you expected and you do not know how to pray through it, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and designed to help you come to God honestly when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

After deep loss, the words God is love can feel hard to hold.

You may still believe it is true, yet wonder how love fits with the pain you are carrying. Grief has a way of pressing against everything we thought we knew about God, especially when the ache does not let up.

In this episode, we talk honestly about what it means to believe God is love after the death of a child. Not as a cliché. Not as something to say quickly. But as a truth we wrestle with while living inside real heartbreak.

• What Scripture really means when it says God is love
• Why grief can make God’s love feel hard to trust
• How love and suffering coexist in the Christian faith
• Why questioning God’s love is not a failure of faith
• How Jesus reveals God’s love to us in the middle of pain

This episode does not rush healing or offer easy answers. It gently invites grieving hearts to look again at who God is, even when emotions and circumstances make that feel difficult.

This episode pairs with our blog post, God Is Love: Bible Verses for When Grief Makes It Hard to Believe, which shares Scripture to help anchor grieving parents in the unchanging love of God. If listening feels heavy, the written verses offer a quiet place to return to truth at your own pace.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblically grounded hope, emotional honesty, and compassionate care to grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step

If believing God is love feels hard right now, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and designed to help you come to God honestly when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.

After child loss, phrases like “God is able” can feel complicated.

You may believe God can do anything, yet your heart still aches with what He did not prevent, fix, or change. That tension can feel confusing, heavy, and isolating.

In this episode, we talk honestly about what it means to say “My God is able” when you are walking through deep grief. This conversation is for the grieving mother who believes in God’s power, but is struggling to reconcile that truth with her pain.

• What Scripture really means when it says God is able
• Why grief can make God’s power feel distant or hard to trust
• The difference between believing God can act and trusting Him with your heart
• How Jesus meets us when outcomes do not look the way we prayed
• Why God’s ability does not disappear in suffering, even when answers do

This episode does not dismiss disappointment or rush you toward faith statements that feel too heavy to carry. Instead, it gently invites grieving mothers to wrestle honestly with God’s power, goodness, and presence in the middle of loss.

If you are holding belief and heartbreak at the same time, this episode is for you.

This episode is paired with our blog post, God Is Able: Bible Verses for When Faith Feels Weak, which shares Scripture to anchor grieving hearts in God’s strength and character. If listening feels heavy, the written verses offer a gentle way to return to truth one moment at a time.

About New Mercy Moms

This podcast is part of the ministry of New Mercy Moms, a Jesus-centered nonprofit serving mothers who have experienced the death of a child. We exist to offer biblical truth, emotional honesty, and compassionate support to grieving hearts.

A Gentle Next Step

If trusting God feels complicated right now, especially when prayer feels heavy, you are not alone.

We’ve created Bible prayers for bereaved parents, written specifically for mothers walking through child loss. These prayers are rooted in Scripture and designed to help you come to God honestly when words feel hard to find.

Your pain will push you somewhere. Your pain needs to push you to God.