Life & Faith

A conversation about death, loss, and what you can really say and do to help grieving people. --- “Hope was with us for 199 days and then she was gone.” Nancy Guthrie has had to live through what many dread as the worst of all experiences of death – the death of her child. And she had to go through it twice. “I had lots of questions. There were things I thought I understood about God that this brought to the surface – maybe I didn’t understand as much as I thought I did.” As a Christian, Nancy turned to the Bible for answers. It wasn’t easy, but she eventually found herself in a place where she could believe that “somehow, [this experience] is going to accomplish God’s loving purposes for my life, and for my family”. Then she fell pregnant again, unexpectedly. “It felt like there were grey clouds gathering in the distant horizon that were getting ready to sweep through my life again,” she says. Her son was diagnosed with Zellweger Syndrome, the same rare genetic disorder that had taken the life of her daughte