Most people don’t realize they’ve said the wrong thing to someone who’s grieving until it’s far too late.
Dr. Dave Keehn spent more than thirty years helping others through tragedy as a pastor, professor, chaplain, and counselor. Then the sudden death of his 24-year-old son, Adam, forced him to experience grief from the other side. What he learned challenged many of the assumptions he once held about loss, healing, faith, and the way we care for those whose lives have been forever changed.
In this deeply personal conversation with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who also shares her own experience of losing her husband and recently walking alongside a close friend after the death of his son, Dr. Keehn explains why grief has no timetable, why two people can experience the same loss in completely different ways, why marriages often struggle after losing a child, and why some of the most well-intentioned words can leave the deepest wounds.
Drawing from his book, Living in the Shadow of Grief: Enlarging Your Capacity to Grieve with Hope, Dr. Keehn also explores the difficult questions many people quietly wrestle with after tragedy. Why do friends disappear after the funeral? Why does searching for “why” rarely bring peace? What does the Bible really teach about grief, suffering, and hope? And how do you become the kind of person who truly helps instead of unintentionally adding to someone’s pain?
Grief eventually touches every family. Before it touches yours again, this conversation may change the way you comfort someone you love, the way you understand your own loss, and the hope you carry through both.
Links:
Website: D6 Family Ministry
Book: Living in the Shadow of Grief: Enlarging Your Capacity to Grieve With Hope
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