I Love My Shepherd 16 – Written in Iron Ink: Infant Loss

Special Guests – Rev. Geoffrey and Genevieve Wagner

In Memory of Sebastian

 

2 Samuel 12:15-23

 

Who pastors the pastor and his family when they are in need?

• find a Father Confessor to be able to receive Christ's words of forgiveness from

• also find fellow pastors and people who will share the Word of Hope with you in trial

• pastor's wives and children also need people in the Body of Christ to support them

 

Helping your children process -

Older children giving space to be verbal and share

Younger children process through play

 

Grief and loss in your marriage -

• spouses will process differently

• people usually process in relation to their personality – internally process v externally process

• being tender toward the way your spouse processes grief differently than you

 

Treasuring things in our hearts -

Luke 2:19

• let your family know you are collecting up and valuing what they are saying and sharing as part of this experience

 

Impact of experience on others

• the loss of broken expectations

• the value of the support of the Body of Christ, the congregation and those in ministry around you

• know that everyone around you has their own story of loss and we all process differently

 

Impact on the ministry

• Satan likes darkness, so he likes struggle hidden

• when we reveal our struggle to others, people come out of the woodwork with their own

• death is real and imminent, but eternity is for us as believers also

• the Gospel promise is heard in the womb

• Don't hide your joy from those struggling or from those experiencing loss

• Grief is an individual process, no judgement please!

 

Romans 10:17 – faith comes by hearing

Isaiah 55:10

Psalm 130

Psalm 139

1 Thessalonians 4:13

 

 

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