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Do you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; for sure, January 9, 2020\u2014I\u2019m already going to cry\u2014I lost my mom. [Emotion in voice] She\u2019s my best friend; and it was really hard to lose her, even though she was 90 years old. It leaves such a hole and a gap. Then COVID hit. My mom and dad had been married 70 years; so to watch my dad be without her, and none of us could be with him, because he was in assisted living, that felt like <em>torture<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Ann Wilson.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> app.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> We\u2019re going to talk about tough things today. We\u2019ve got the <em>perfect<\/em> guy in the studio with us to talk about\u2014I love your book\u2014Ron Hutchcraft is with us. He\u2019s the president\/founder of Ron Hutchcraft Ministries. I\u2019m guessing you founded that with your wife Karen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Absolutely. Wait a minute\u2014this show\u2014could we just stop now? [Laughter] I haven\u2019t been called perfect ever before. You said \u201cthe perfect guy,\u201d man, let\u2019s just go with that. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Welcome to FamilyLife. This is going to be a treat to have you; we\u2019re so glad you\u2019re here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Thank you; thank you. And everything important I\u2019ve ever done in my life I did with Karen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You\u2019d already told us that, so I knew it wasn\u2019t you alone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour most recent book, <em>Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking,<\/em> is what Ann just talked about\u2014her moment\u2014and we all have moments in our life, where our heart is breaking. This book, <em>Finding God\u2019s Presence in Your Pain<\/em>, is <em>perfect<\/em>. Again, I\u2019m using the word, \u201cperfect,\u201d a lot; but it is so what we\u2019re asking right now: \u201cHow do I find hope when my heart is breaking?\u2014when life is really, really difficult.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And especially in [this] season\u2014I would call it a season of grief\u2014because people have lost loved ones; people have been suffering with depression and anxiety; or just the tragedy of losing 500,000 lives in our country. Those are some really hard things to face.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> I think everybody\u2019s lost something in this past year. You\u2019ve lost certainty; you can\u2019t plan anything. Of course, all the people, [who] have lost a loved one; but people have lost businesses; they\u2019ve lost jobs; they\u2019ve lost a dream that they\u2019ve had for a long time that just got lost in the pandemic; they\u2019ve lost connection with other people. Whatever normalcy is, they\u2019ve lost it; we just feel like: \u201cIs it ever going to be the same again?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Trying to plan something right now you\u2019re like: \u201cWell, if\u2026\u201d \u201cWell, hopefully, we\u2026\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> And I have to tell you\u2014of course, I had no idea as I\u2019m writing this book\u2014that\u2019s all pre-pandemic; and suddenly, everybody\u2019s dealing with loss of some kind. Whenever you have a major loss in your life\u2014when something is dying that you care about or has died; or <em>someone<\/em>, even worse\u2014you do grieve. You may not even call it that; so it\u2019s: \u201cLoss equals grief.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe grieve throughout our life, not just when we lose the one we love\u2014that\u2019s by far on the stress chart\u2014you know, they give 100 points; and 100 points is: \u201cYou lost the love of your life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Well, let\u2019s go there; let\u2019s talk about that. One of the reasons I said you\u2019re the perfect guy to talk about this is\u2014not only did you write a book about it\u2014but when I watch you, when I listen to you, and now meeting you, you\u2019re full of <em>joy<\/em>. There\u2019s a <em>joy<\/em> that comes out of Ron Hutchcraft.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014and life and energy. Okay; can we ask you how old you are?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> No. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> He told us he\u2019s over 40; and you\u2019ve got the coolest, hippest tennis shoes on ever. [Laughter] You walk in here\u2014it\u2019s like this guy\u2019s wearing Jordans\u2014but anyway, enough of that\/enough of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Let\u2019s ask this: \u201cHow long were you married to the love of your life?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Well, that will help you answer the other question: 50 years. This is the love of my life since I\u2019m 19; the only person I\u2019ve shared my adult life with every day. You guys understand. There\u2019s only one person\u2014literally, irreplaceable\u2014that you have the same battles, you\u2019ve prayed for the same things, you knew the same people, you\u2019ve laughed at the same things, cried over the same things. All of a sudden, I turn to tell her\u2014because that was life we <em>shared<\/em>\u2014there\u2019s nobody there to tell. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what happened. We had a <em>wonderful<\/em> May 15, 2016. We went to the graduation of our first grandchild; he\u2019s valedictorian of the class. He\u2019s giving a wonderful Christ- honoring speech to a stadium full of people. Ron, as usual, has to leave to speak; I\u2019ve got to be driven by some guys through the night to get to where I\u2019m going to go speak. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re sitting in the bleachers; and I said, \u201cI love you, honey\u201d; and she said, \u201cI love you.\u201d Then she teared up, which was not usual; because we\u2019ve had a lot of goodbyes. I said, \u201cHoney, what\u2019s going on?\u201d She said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m really going to miss you.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, don\u2019t worry; it won\u2019t be long.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, I was wrong. How could you know when your last \u201cI love you\u201d is? The next day, in another state, I got called by our youngest son, who said, \u201cMom\u2019s gone.\u201d I felt like a lost little boy. I knew how to do life with Karen. Life without her had no map whatsoever\u2014was unimaginable\u2014she was my mirror; she was my compass\/help me know when I was getting lost; she was my best friend; she was a lot of fun; she was always interesting\/I never got bored with her; she was a tremendous ministry partner\/tremendous leader in her own right; most of all, mother of my kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo here\u2019s the reality: it was the best day of Karen\u2019s life: she got to see Jesus; she got to see heaven. It was the worst day of my life; it was the worst day of her kids\u2019 life; it was the worst day of her grandkids\u2019 life. I wrote a blog, not too long after that; and it pretty well summed it up: \u201cMy shattered heart\/my certain hope, and they strangely coexisted.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Tell us about that: \u201cHow do they coexist?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Well, first of all, you have someone to cry out to, who gets it; His name is Jesus. Hope is not a concept; hope is not a religion; hope is not positive vibes; hope is Jesus. He\u2019s called a living hope in the Bible because of the resurrection\/His resurrection from the dead. The Apostle Paul wrote in the Bible these words to people, who had lost loved ones; he said, \u201cWe do not grieve\u201d\u2014now if it stopped there, I\u2019d put a Bible away and never pick it up, and say, \u201cThat\u2019s a lie! This hurts like <em>nothing<\/em> has ever hurt in my life,\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cWe do not grieve as others who have no hope.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you imagine a scale:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNo Jesus\u2014the scale is all down on one side\/the grief side is just\u2014there\u2019s nothing on the other side [of grief]. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWith Jesus, this living hope is on the other side of this [grief side]. He\u2019s a death crusher; He\u2019s a death conqueror. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron: <\/strong>I was the last one to leave her graveside, and because of Jesus\/because of what happened on that first Easter morning, I could say with full assurance, \u201cSee you soon.\u201d But in the meantime, she\u2019s in heaven; we are not. Not only are we not, but we\u2019re here without her, and all that she has been for us. I literally didn\u2019t know what to do\u2014get up off the couch\u2014\u201cWhat do I do next?\u201d I <em>really<\/em> was lost. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI started a grief journal; I have it right here. A few pages in, you would see these words written in big letters at the top. It simply says\u2014and I don\u2019t know if I\u2014there you go; you can see it right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Oh, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Can you see it, Dave? What does it say up there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF.\u201d Is that the start of the journal?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> That\u2019s a few days in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> I will tell you\u2014I was not coherent enough to even come up with that thought\u2014literally, that had to be God speaking it to me; because I cried out in desperation. You see a broken heart is an open heart\u2014it is wide open; it\u2019s ripped open\u2014I mean, it\u2019s open in places where you didn\u2019t even know you had places.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It\u2019s interesting; when I read that, I recalled reading about a rabbi, who used to say, \u201cI pray that God will use the seeds that I plant <em>onto<\/em> people\u2019s hearts,\u201d\u2014I thought that was such a weird saying; and then later, he said\u2014\u201cso that, when their hearts are broken open, God\u2019s Word will fall <em>into<\/em> their hearts.\u201d I thought, \u201cOh, that\u2019s exactly what you are saying, Ron.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> If, at that moment, you cry out to Jesus\u2014whatever your relationship with Him; or maybe, you don\u2019t have one\u2014but if you simply say, \u201cJesus, whatever You do, do for me,\u201d\u2014and you have no defenses; you\u2019re vulnerable\u2014that\u2019s why, if you don\u2019t make the right choices at this point, that vulnerability is going to turn into more hurt by your choices, not by the loss, by your choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, if at that point, if you open that up to Him, He goes where He\u2019s invited. He will bring His comfort, and His meaning even to it, and His love, and His hope\u2014and it goes into the deepest parts of you\u2014and suddenly, if He is your personal Savior, He becomes a more personal Savior. I\u2019ve served Him for all these decades but <em>never<\/em> has He been this personal; He\u2019s been personal, but He\u2019s personal, personal now. And those words\u2014\u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF\u201d\u2014then I prayed a prayer after that; I said, \u201cDear Jesus, if this is going to hurt this bad, would You please somehow use it to make me more useful to You and of more help to other people?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll I can tell you is, in the five years since then, He has been answering that prayer in ways I never, never could have dreamed. Does it take the grief away?\u2014no! The hope doesn\u2019t cancel the grief; it\u2019s just <em>stronger<\/em> than the grief. You still have it, and there is still this hole left by this person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA friend of mine, who had lost his wife five years before to cancer, called me right away. We had been to her funeral\u2014Karen and I had been\u2014and he gave me a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It says something like this: \u201cDon\u2019t ask God to take the hole away left by that person. He won\u2019t, because that is your connection to that person; you don\u2019t want that to go away. What I found in Jesus is the strength, and the leading, the guiding\/explicit guidance from Him\u2014constant, like never before\u2014that helps you know\/to find the meaning and the purpose in it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You\u2019ve already commented on this\u2014and this is what I think we don\u2019t understand about grief, and hope and grief\u2014and I\u2019ll just throw it out to you, and I want to hear your well of experience explain this\u2014but: \u201cLosing means grieving. Grieving means choices,\u201d\u2014you already said that\u2014\u201cChoices mean hurt or healing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> One of your quotes was: \u201cIn crisis, we make choices that will either bring hurt or hope.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Yes; if I could say anything to someone who\u2019s gone through a major life loss: \u201cYou won\u2019t be the same. The only question is: \u2018What kind of different will you be?\u2019 You <em>will<\/em> be different because of this\u2014but it\u2019s not up to the loss\u2014it\u2019s up to the choices you make.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, if I have a hammer in my hand, it could tear down a wall; it could build a wall. It isn\u2019t the hammer that decides; it\u2019s what you <em>do<\/em> with the hammer that decides what it does. We don\u2019t get a choice about life\u2019s hammers\u2014I got hit with a sledgehammer that May 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u2014but we do get to decide what we do with it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave, my experience: I\u2019ve walked through the valley of the shadow of death with a lot of people over the years. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron: <\/strong>The easiest way to go is to go the route of more hurt; it actually is a little <em>harder<\/em> to make the other choices. So probably more people ended up with compounded grief, compounded pain, compounded hurt\u2014because for one\u2014you say the road to hurt starts with stuffing your grief\/pushing it in instead of letting it out. [It] seems like a lot of people choose that because, either they\u2019ve been raised to be strong, or it hurts too bad to face into this and let myself feel how I\u2019m feeling; so we internalize it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut grief is like a beach ball that you push under the water. You can only push it down so far before it goes up; and the farther down you push it, the higher it\u2019s going to go when it goes. Grief doesn\u2019t go away because you deny it; it just morphs into ugly stuff: it becomes anger; it becomes bitterness; it becomes a hard heart; it becomes escape choices to <em>run<\/em> from the grief\u2014and I run into a bottle, or a drug, or a relationship, or busyness, but something\/it will only give me more problems\u2014now, I\u2019ve got the grief-<em>plus<\/em>, <em>not<\/em> the grief-minus. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShakespeare said, \u201cGive sorrow words\u201d; that\u2019s so important. I started by writing it in a journal. When you don\u2019t grieve your grief, your grief will own you. It will own you, emotionally, and for years, and years, and years. One of the things we deal with in the book is the grief of your broken past\u2014the abuse; the neglect; the abandonment; the mistreatment you had, years ago, maybe as a kid, never dealt with\/never grieved\u2014it\u2019s <em>pursuing<\/em> you, and you\u2019re making choices now that affect your other relationships and everything. So if you can find other people to do the journey with\u2014my daughter has been so helped by one of these grief share groups\u2014and there\u2019s probably one in your area, wherever you are. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I learned there\u2019s a wrong question and a right question to ask. The wrong question\u2014it\u2019s not morally wrong; it\u2019s that you\u2019re probably not going to get an answer\u2014is the one we always ask: \u201cWhy?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cWhy?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> \u201cWhy?\u201d\u2014it\u2019s probably going to take being in eternity to see it from <em>that<\/em> viewpoint to really get that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe question you <em>can<\/em> get an answer to is\u2014and I think I was asking that the day I wrote that \u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF\u201d\u2014\u201cHow can God use this?\u201d \u201cWhat can You do with this?\u201d There\u2019s this thing\u2014I came to put two words together that seem odd together: \u201cdefiant hope\u201d; and I talk about that in the book. Defiant hope\u2014now I\u2019ve never heard those words together\u2014they\u2019re like: \u201cThat\u2019s weird.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut defiant hope says this: \u201cI will not deny my grief: I\u2019m going to face it; I\u2019m going to feel it; I\u2019m going to talk about it; I will <em>not<\/em> deny it. But the second part of defiant hope is: \u201cI will not be defined by it\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Oh, that\u2019s so good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cthe rest of my life,\u201d\u2014that I don\u2019t have to be the guy, who lost his wife\u2014that\u2019s who I am from now on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It becomes your identity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> It\u2019s your identity. You evolve your life around it and that hole that we talked about\/that Bonhoeffer talked about\u2014that what I realize is the hole will not go away; it should not go away: Karen lives in that hole in my heart, and I want her to\u2014but you can rebuild your life around the hole\u2014it <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> have to be: \u201cThe hole is your life,\u201d\u2014seeking the meaning\/the purpose in it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are other things, too, that lead to more hurt; and there are things that lead to hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You know, as a preacher for 30 years at our church, if there was a message that\u2014if you went up to somebody and said, \u201cWhat is one of Dave\u2019s messages that comes around?\u201d\u2014that I\u2019ll preach once or twice a year for 30 years, it\u2019s this message. My phrase was not as good as yours\u2014mine was: trials, or pain, or hurt, or adversity\/whatever you want to call it\u2014\u201cTrials will make you better or bitter.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>And I always added: \u201cThe choice is yours.\u201d That\u2019s what <em>you<\/em> were getting at. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhenever I preached that\u2014whether it\u2019s at my church, or on the road, or whatever\u2014when I look out at the congregation, and say: \u201cHow many of you know bitter people?\u201d \u201cHow many of you know better people?\u2014show of hands.\u201d It\u2019s <em>always<\/em> 8 to 1; 10 to 1 <em>bitter<\/em>. Most of us know somebody, who went through something; and they\u2019re bitter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> They\u2019re defined by it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes; they made the <em>wrong<\/em> choice; and they are mad, and bitter, and hurt; and they are <em>defined<\/em> by it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen you say: \u201cHow many of you know people, who went through the <em>exact<\/em> same trial\u2014they lost a spouse, or they lost a job\u2014are they better?\u201d And there\u2019s a few hands, but it\u2019s never as high as bitter. That\u2019s what you\u2019re all about. It\u2019s like, \u201cMan, defiant hope is a <em>choice<\/em> you have to make.\u201d I get it; it\u2019s a <em>hard<\/em> choice; it\u2019s <em>easier<\/em> to be bitter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> It\u2019s a default choice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And you can get a whole crowd around you to go, \u201cYes, I\u2019d be bitter too.\u201d But man, to make the choice\u2014and to speak out, like you said, to somebody to get help to become better\u2014to become defiant in your hope, where it\u2019s like a visceral hope that I\u2019m going to hang onto, is the choice you\u2019ve got to make. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m thinking there is a listener, right now, that is stuck. Ron is saying, and we\u2019re saying, \u201cYou have a choice right here,\u201d\u2014right?\u2014\u201cRight now, I\u2019m going to dig out of this hole. I can do it, but I can\u2019t do it alone. I need God\u2019s help, and I need people to get me out of that hole.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>And<\/em> here\u2019s what I would say: \u201cGet your [Ron\u2019s] book!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Well, that\u2019s where that broken heart\u2014that is now wide open, because it\u2019s broken\u2014again, if you will say, \u201cJesus, whatever You do, do that in this broken heart of mine.\u201d The Bible says He was a man of sorrows. He\u2019s acquainted with grief; He suffered pain, loss, grief at a level none of us will ever understand; but He understands <em>us<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt that point, you\u2019re receiving super natural strength; because somebody goes: \u201cI can\u2019t get up; I can\u2019t. Thank you; it sounds good; I can\u2019t.\u201d You can\u2019t\u2014good\u2014that\u2019s the starting point to say, \u201cI\u2019m all Yours, Jesus. Whatever You do\u2014You\u2019re the living hope; You\u2019re the death conqueror; You\u2019re the resurrected; You\u2019re the Easter Jesus\u2014I need some Easter in <em>me<\/em>. I need to be resurrected; I\u2019m <em>dying<\/em> inside.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it could be from a lost loved one; a lost\/a marriage that\u2019s in trouble; it could be a dream that has died; it could be bad news from the doctor; whatever\u2014this is a moment of danger, and it\u2019s a moment of opportunity\u2014and which one wins. Don\u2019t say, \u201cWell, you know, I\u2019ve never been the same since,\u201d\u2014well, that\u2019s probably true\u2014but what kind of different are you?\u2014it\u2019s not because of what you lost; it\u2019s because of what you chose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I just heard you say\u2014and I\u2019m going to say it to the listener\u2014\u201cIf you want to get up, get down\u2014down on your knees and surrender\u2014and say \u201cGod, I can\u2019t get up; I just can\u2019t. I\u2019ve tried, and You know I\u2019ve tried. I need You to lift me up.\u201d Let me tell you: He will.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> When I was a little boy, I learned a chorus. You know it, too: \u201cJesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so,\u201d\u2014good so far\u2014\u201cLittle ones to Him belong; they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me!\u201d It took me a lot more years to learn <em>that<\/em> part and what that meant. Losing my anchor love in my life\u2014but realizing I had one love I would never lose and one unlosable hope\u2014name anything you put your hope in, my friend, other than Jesus, and you could lose it any day. Boy, if the pandemic, and all of that, and all that came out of that\u2014if that hasn\u2019t demonstrated that we could lose anything anytime unexpectedly\u2014but you\u2019ve got, in Jesus, a living hope, who is unlosable. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Bible says nothing\/nothing can ever separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I can say, if I gave a three-word testimony, it would be: \u201cThe anchor holds.\u201d And that anchor is identified in Hebrews 6:19; it says about Jesus: \u201cWe have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s a good word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Thank you, Ron; so good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I have to think that some of you have been profoundly touched by what Ron Hutchcraft has shared with Dave and Ann Wilson today, talking about loss, and grief, and about hope\/our need for hope. In fact, Ron has written a book called <em>Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking: Finding God\u2019s Presence in Your Pain<\/em>. It comes out of his personal story that he shared with us but, also, his faithful walk with Christ for decades. Many of you can quickly identify someone you know, who has been through a profound season of grief. Maybe you\u2019d like to give them a copy of this book as a gift. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re making Ron\u2019s book available this week to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners who can support this ministry with a donation of any amount. Your financial support helps us advance the work of FamilyLife to reach more people, more often, with practical biblical help and hope for their marriages and for their families. When you make a donation to support that ongoing work today, you can request your copy of Ron Hutchcraft\u2019s book, <em>Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking<\/em>. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to make a donation; or you can call to donate at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-358-6329; that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about how you cling to Christ when the cause of your heartache is something in your marriage. When you\u2019ve lost hope for your marriage, how do you hang onto Jesus in the midst of that? Dave and Ann Wilson will have that conversation with Ron Hutchcraft tomorrow. I hope you can be with us for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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pain of loss can rip our hearts open and leave us feeling hopeless, but Ron Hutchcraft points us to our Living Hope, Who provides purpose in the midst of great loss, and hope for a better tomorrow.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/fl2021-07-05.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Alright; 2020 was a\/I guess you could call it a pretty tough year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think it was our hardest year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes; what was your hardest <em>moment<\/em> in 2020? Do you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; for sure, January 9, 2020\u2014I\u2019m already going to cry\u2014I lost my mom. [Emotion in voice] She\u2019s my best friend; and it was really hard to lose her, even though she was 90 years old. It leaves such a hole and a gap. Then COVID hit. My mom and dad had been married 70 years; so to watch my dad be without her, and none of us could be with him, because he was in assisted living, that felt like <em>torture<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Ann Wilson.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> app.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> We\u2019re going to talk about tough things today. We\u2019ve got the <em>perfect<\/em> guy in the studio with us to talk about\u2014I love your book\u2014Ron Hutchcraft is with us. He\u2019s the president\/founder of Ron Hutchcraft Ministries. I\u2019m guessing you founded that with your wife Karen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Absolutely. Wait a minute\u2014this show\u2014could we just stop now? [Laughter] I haven\u2019t been called perfect ever before. You said \u201cthe perfect guy,\u201d man, let\u2019s just go with that. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Welcome to FamilyLife. This is going to be a treat to have you; we\u2019re so glad you\u2019re here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Thank you; thank you. And everything important I\u2019ve ever done in my life I did with Karen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You\u2019d already told us that, so I knew it wasn\u2019t you alone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour most recent book, <em>Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking,<\/em> is what Ann just talked about\u2014her moment\u2014and we all have moments in our life, where our heart is breaking. This book, <em>Finding God\u2019s Presence in Your Pain<\/em>, is <em>perfect<\/em>. Again, I\u2019m using the word, \u201cperfect,\u201d a lot; but it is so what we\u2019re asking right now: \u201cHow do I find hope when my heart is breaking?\u2014when life is really, really difficult.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And especially in [this] season\u2014I would call it a season of grief\u2014because people have lost loved ones; people have been suffering with depression and anxiety; or just the tragedy of losing 500,000 lives in our country. Those are some really hard things to face.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> I think everybody\u2019s lost something in this past year. You\u2019ve lost certainty; you can\u2019t plan anything. Of course, all the people, [who] have lost a loved one; but people have lost businesses; they\u2019ve lost jobs; they\u2019ve lost a dream that they\u2019ve had for a long time that just got lost in the pandemic; they\u2019ve lost connection with other people. Whatever normalcy is, they\u2019ve lost it; we just feel like: \u201cIs it ever going to be the same again?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Trying to plan something right now you\u2019re like: \u201cWell, if\u2026\u201d \u201cWell, hopefully, we\u2026\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> And I have to tell you\u2014of course, I had no idea as I\u2019m writing this book\u2014that\u2019s all pre-pandemic; and suddenly, everybody\u2019s dealing with loss of some kind. Whenever you have a major loss in your life\u2014when something is dying that you care about or has died; or <em>someone<\/em>, even worse\u2014you do grieve. You may not even call it that; so it\u2019s: \u201cLoss equals grief.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe grieve throughout our life, not just when we lose the one we love\u2014that\u2019s by far on the stress chart\u2014you know, they give 100 points; and 100 points is: \u201cYou lost the love of your life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Well, let\u2019s go there; let\u2019s talk about that. One of the reasons I said you\u2019re the perfect guy to talk about this is\u2014not only did you write a book about it\u2014but when I watch you, when I listen to you, and now meeting you, you\u2019re full of <em>joy<\/em>. There\u2019s a <em>joy<\/em> that comes out of Ron Hutchcraft.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014and life and energy. Okay; can we ask you how old you are?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> No. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> He told us he\u2019s over 40; and you\u2019ve got the coolest, hippest tennis shoes on ever. [Laughter] You walk in here\u2014it\u2019s like this guy\u2019s wearing Jordans\u2014but anyway, enough of that\/enough of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Let\u2019s ask this: \u201cHow long were you married to the love of your life?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Well, that will help you answer the other question: 50 years. This is the love of my life since I\u2019m 19; the only person I\u2019ve shared my adult life with every day. You guys understand. There\u2019s only one person\u2014literally, irreplaceable\u2014that you have the same battles, you\u2019ve prayed for the same things, you knew the same people, you\u2019ve laughed at the same things, cried over the same things. All of a sudden, I turn to tell her\u2014because that was life we <em>shared<\/em>\u2014there\u2019s nobody there to tell. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what happened. We had a <em>wonderful<\/em> May 15, 2016. We went to the graduation of our first grandchild; he\u2019s valedictorian of the class. He\u2019s giving a wonderful Christ- honoring speech to a stadium full of people. Ron, as usual, has to leave to speak; I\u2019ve got to be driven by some guys through the night to get to where I\u2019m going to go speak. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re sitting in the bleachers; and I said, \u201cI love you, honey\u201d; and she said, \u201cI love you.\u201d Then she teared up, which was not usual; because we\u2019ve had a lot of goodbyes. I said, \u201cHoney, what\u2019s going on?\u201d She said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m really going to miss you.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, don\u2019t worry; it won\u2019t be long.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, I was wrong. How could you know when your last \u201cI love you\u201d is? The next day, in another state, I got called by our youngest son, who said, \u201cMom\u2019s gone.\u201d I felt like a lost little boy. I knew how to do life with Karen. Life without her had no map whatsoever\u2014was unimaginable\u2014she was my mirror; she was my compass\/help me know when I was getting lost; she was my best friend; she was a lot of fun; she was always interesting\/I never got bored with her; she was a tremendous ministry partner\/tremendous leader in her own right; most of all, mother of my kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo here\u2019s the reality: it was the best day of Karen\u2019s life: she got to see Jesus; she got to see heaven. It was the worst day of my life; it was the worst day of her kids\u2019 life; it was the worst day of her grandkids\u2019 life. I wrote a blog, not too long after that; and it pretty well summed it up: \u201cMy shattered heart\/my certain hope, and they strangely coexisted.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Tell us about that: \u201cHow do they coexist?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Well, first of all, you have someone to cry out to, who gets it; His name is Jesus. Hope is not a concept; hope is not a religion; hope is not positive vibes; hope is Jesus. He\u2019s called a living hope in the Bible because of the resurrection\/His resurrection from the dead. The Apostle Paul wrote in the Bible these words to people, who had lost loved ones; he said, \u201cWe do not grieve\u201d\u2014now if it stopped there, I\u2019d put a Bible away and never pick it up, and say, \u201cThat\u2019s a lie! This hurts like <em>nothing<\/em> has ever hurt in my life,\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cWe do not grieve as others who have no hope.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you imagine a scale:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNo Jesus\u2014the scale is all down on one side\/the grief side is just\u2014there\u2019s nothing on the other side [of grief]. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWith Jesus, this living hope is on the other side of this [grief side]. He\u2019s a death crusher; He\u2019s a death conqueror. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron: <\/strong>I was the last one to leave her graveside, and because of Jesus\/because of what happened on that first Easter morning, I could say with full assurance, \u201cSee you soon.\u201d But in the meantime, she\u2019s in heaven; we are not. Not only are we not, but we\u2019re here without her, and all that she has been for us. I literally didn\u2019t know what to do\u2014get up off the couch\u2014\u201cWhat do I do next?\u201d I <em>really<\/em> was lost. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI started a grief journal; I have it right here. A few pages in, you would see these words written in big letters at the top. It simply says\u2014and I don\u2019t know if I\u2014there you go; you can see it right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Oh, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Can you see it, Dave? What does it say up there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF.\u201d Is that the start of the journal?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> That\u2019s a few days in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> I will tell you\u2014I was not coherent enough to even come up with that thought\u2014literally, that had to be God speaking it to me; because I cried out in desperation. You see a broken heart is an open heart\u2014it is wide open; it\u2019s ripped open\u2014I mean, it\u2019s open in places where you didn\u2019t even know you had places.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It\u2019s interesting; when I read that, I recalled reading about a rabbi, who used to say, \u201cI pray that God will use the seeds that I plant <em>onto<\/em> people\u2019s hearts,\u201d\u2014I thought that was such a weird saying; and then later, he said\u2014\u201cso that, when their hearts are broken open, God\u2019s Word will fall <em>into<\/em> their hearts.\u201d I thought, \u201cOh, that\u2019s exactly what you are saying, Ron.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> If, at that moment, you cry out to Jesus\u2014whatever your relationship with Him; or maybe, you don\u2019t have one\u2014but if you simply say, \u201cJesus, whatever You do, do for me,\u201d\u2014and you have no defenses; you\u2019re vulnerable\u2014that\u2019s why, if you don\u2019t make the right choices at this point, that vulnerability is going to turn into more hurt by your choices, not by the loss, by your choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, if at that point, if you open that up to Him, He goes where He\u2019s invited. He will bring His comfort, and His meaning even to it, and His love, and His hope\u2014and it goes into the deepest parts of you\u2014and suddenly, if He is your personal Savior, He becomes a more personal Savior. I\u2019ve served Him for all these decades but <em>never<\/em> has He been this personal; He\u2019s been personal, but He\u2019s personal, personal now. And those words\u2014\u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF\u201d\u2014then I prayed a prayer after that; I said, \u201cDear Jesus, if this is going to hurt this bad, would You please somehow use it to make me more useful to You and of more help to other people?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll I can tell you is, in the five years since then, He has been answering that prayer in ways I never, never could have dreamed. Does it take the grief away?\u2014no! The hope doesn\u2019t cancel the grief; it\u2019s just <em>stronger<\/em> than the grief. You still have it, and there is still this hole left by this person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA friend of mine, who had lost his wife five years before to cancer, called me right away. We had been to her funeral\u2014Karen and I had been\u2014and he gave me a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It says something like this: \u201cDon\u2019t ask God to take the hole away left by that person. He won\u2019t, because that is your connection to that person; you don\u2019t want that to go away. What I found in Jesus is the strength, and the leading, the guiding\/explicit guidance from Him\u2014constant, like never before\u2014that helps you know\/to find the meaning and the purpose in it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You\u2019ve already commented on this\u2014and this is what I think we don\u2019t understand about grief, and hope and grief\u2014and I\u2019ll just throw it out to you, and I want to hear your well of experience explain this\u2014but: \u201cLosing means grieving. Grieving means choices,\u201d\u2014you already said that\u2014\u201cChoices mean hurt or healing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> One of your quotes was: \u201cIn crisis, we make choices that will either bring hurt or hope.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Yes; if I could say anything to someone who\u2019s gone through a major life loss: \u201cYou won\u2019t be the same. The only question is: \u2018What kind of different will you be?\u2019 You <em>will<\/em> be different because of this\u2014but it\u2019s not up to the loss\u2014it\u2019s up to the choices you make.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, if I have a hammer in my hand, it could tear down a wall; it could build a wall. It isn\u2019t the hammer that decides; it\u2019s what you <em>do<\/em> with the hammer that decides what it does. We don\u2019t get a choice about life\u2019s hammers\u2014I got hit with a sledgehammer that May 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u2014but we do get to decide what we do with it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave, my experience: I\u2019ve walked through the valley of the shadow of death with a lot of people over the years. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron: <\/strong>The easiest way to go is to go the route of more hurt; it actually is a little <em>harder<\/em> to make the other choices. So probably more people ended up with compounded grief, compounded pain, compounded hurt\u2014because for one\u2014you say the road to hurt starts with stuffing your grief\/pushing it in instead of letting it out. [It] seems like a lot of people choose that because, either they\u2019ve been raised to be strong, or it hurts too bad to face into this and let myself feel how I\u2019m feeling; so we internalize it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut grief is like a beach ball that you push under the water. You can only push it down so far before it goes up; and the farther down you push it, the higher it\u2019s going to go when it goes. Grief doesn\u2019t go away because you deny it; it just morphs into ugly stuff: it becomes anger; it becomes bitterness; it becomes a hard heart; it becomes escape choices to <em>run<\/em> from the grief\u2014and I run into a bottle, or a drug, or a relationship, or busyness, but something\/it will only give me more problems\u2014now, I\u2019ve got the grief-<em>plus<\/em>, <em>not<\/em> the grief-minus. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShakespeare said, \u201cGive sorrow words\u201d; that\u2019s so important. I started by writing it in a journal. When you don\u2019t grieve your grief, your grief will own you. It will own you, emotionally, and for years, and years, and years. One of the things we deal with in the book is the grief of your broken past\u2014the abuse; the neglect; the abandonment; the mistreatment you had, years ago, maybe as a kid, never dealt with\/never grieved\u2014it\u2019s <em>pursuing<\/em> you, and you\u2019re making choices now that affect your other relationships and everything. So if you can find other people to do the journey with\u2014my daughter has been so helped by one of these grief share groups\u2014and there\u2019s probably one in your area, wherever you are. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I learned there\u2019s a wrong question and a right question to ask. The wrong question\u2014it\u2019s not morally wrong; it\u2019s that you\u2019re probably not going to get an answer\u2014is the one we always ask: \u201cWhy?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cWhy?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> \u201cWhy?\u201d\u2014it\u2019s probably going to take being in eternity to see it from <em>that<\/em> viewpoint to really get that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe question you <em>can<\/em> get an answer to is\u2014and I think I was asking that the day I wrote that \u201cI WILL NOT WASTE THIS GRIEF\u201d\u2014\u201cHow can God use this?\u201d \u201cWhat can You do with this?\u201d There\u2019s this thing\u2014I came to put two words together that seem odd together: \u201cdefiant hope\u201d; and I talk about that in the book. Defiant hope\u2014now I\u2019ve never heard those words together\u2014they\u2019re like: \u201cThat\u2019s weird.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut defiant hope says this: \u201cI will not deny my grief: I\u2019m going to face it; I\u2019m going to feel it; I\u2019m going to talk about it; I will <em>not<\/em> deny it. But the second part of defiant hope is: \u201cI will not be defined by it\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Oh, that\u2019s so good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cthe rest of my life,\u201d\u2014that I don\u2019t have to be the guy, who lost his wife\u2014that\u2019s who I am from now on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It becomes your identity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> It\u2019s your identity. You evolve your life around it and that hole that we talked about\/that Bonhoeffer talked about\u2014that what I realize is the hole will not go away; it should not go away: Karen lives in that hole in my heart, and I want her to\u2014but you can rebuild your life around the hole\u2014it <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> have to be: \u201cThe hole is your life,\u201d\u2014seeking the meaning\/the purpose in it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are other things, too, that lead to more hurt; and there are things that lead to hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You know, as a preacher for 30 years at our church, if there was a message that\u2014if you went up to somebody and said, \u201cWhat is one of Dave\u2019s messages that comes around?\u201d\u2014that I\u2019ll preach once or twice a year for 30 years, it\u2019s this message. My phrase was not as good as yours\u2014mine was: trials, or pain, or hurt, or adversity\/whatever you want to call it\u2014\u201cTrials will make you better or bitter.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>And I always added: \u201cThe choice is yours.\u201d That\u2019s what <em>you<\/em> were getting at. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhenever I preached that\u2014whether it\u2019s at my church, or on the road, or whatever\u2014when I look out at the congregation, and say: \u201cHow many of you know bitter people?\u201d \u201cHow many of you know better people?\u2014show of hands.\u201d It\u2019s <em>always<\/em> 8 to 1; 10 to 1 <em>bitter<\/em>. Most of us know somebody, who went through something; and they\u2019re bitter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> They\u2019re defined by it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes; they made the <em>wrong<\/em> choice; and they are mad, and bitter, and hurt; and they are <em>defined<\/em> by it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen you say: \u201cHow many of you know people, who went through the <em>exact<\/em> same trial\u2014they lost a spouse, or they lost a job\u2014are they better?\u201d And there\u2019s a few hands, but it\u2019s never as high as bitter. That\u2019s what you\u2019re all about. It\u2019s like, \u201cMan, defiant hope is a <em>choice<\/em> you have to make.\u201d I get it; it\u2019s a <em>hard<\/em> choice; it\u2019s <em>easier<\/em> to be bitter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> It\u2019s a default choice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And you can get a whole crowd around you to go, \u201cYes, I\u2019d be bitter too.\u201d But man, to make the choice\u2014and to speak out, like you said, to somebody to get help to become better\u2014to become defiant in your hope, where it\u2019s like a visceral hope that I\u2019m going to hang onto, is the choice you\u2019ve got to make. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m thinking there is a listener, right now, that is stuck. Ron is saying, and we\u2019re saying, \u201cYou have a choice right here,\u201d\u2014right?\u2014\u201cRight now, I\u2019m going to dig out of this hole. I can do it, but I can\u2019t do it alone. I need God\u2019s help, and I need people to get me out of that hole.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>And<\/em> here\u2019s what I would say: \u201cGet your [Ron\u2019s] book!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> Well, that\u2019s where that broken heart\u2014that is now wide open, because it\u2019s broken\u2014again, if you will say, \u201cJesus, whatever You do, do that in this broken heart of mine.\u201d The Bible says He was a man of sorrows. He\u2019s acquainted with grief; He suffered pain, loss, grief at a level none of us will ever understand; but He understands <em>us<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt that point, you\u2019re receiving super natural strength; because somebody goes: \u201cI can\u2019t get up; I can\u2019t. Thank you; it sounds good; I can\u2019t.\u201d You can\u2019t\u2014good\u2014that\u2019s the starting point to say, \u201cI\u2019m all Yours, Jesus. Whatever You do\u2014You\u2019re the living hope; You\u2019re the death conqueror; You\u2019re the resurrected; You\u2019re the Easter Jesus\u2014I need some Easter in <em>me<\/em>. I need to be resurrected; I\u2019m <em>dying<\/em> inside.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it could be from a lost loved one; a lost\/a marriage that\u2019s in trouble; it could be a dream that has died; it could be bad news from the doctor; whatever\u2014this is a moment of danger, and it\u2019s a moment of opportunity\u2014and which one wins. Don\u2019t say, \u201cWell, you know, I\u2019ve never been the same since,\u201d\u2014well, that\u2019s probably true\u2014but what kind of different are you?\u2014it\u2019s not because of what you lost; it\u2019s because of what you chose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I just heard you say\u2014and I\u2019m going to say it to the listener\u2014\u201cIf you want to get up, get down\u2014down on your knees and surrender\u2014and say \u201cGod, I can\u2019t get up; I just can\u2019t. I\u2019ve tried, and You know I\u2019ve tried. I need You to lift me up.\u201d Let me tell you: He will.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ron:<\/strong> When I was a little boy, I learned a chorus. You know it, too: \u201cJesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so,\u201d\u2014good so far\u2014\u201cLittle ones to Him belong; they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me!\u201d It took me a lot more years to learn <em>that<\/em> part and what that meant. Losing my anchor love in my life\u2014but realizing I had one love I would never lose and one unlosable hope\u2014name anything you put your hope in, my friend, other than Jesus, and you could lose it any day. Boy, if the pandemic, and all of that, and all that came out of that\u2014if that hasn\u2019t demonstrated that we could lose anything anytime unexpectedly\u2014but you\u2019ve got, in Jesus, a living hope, who is unlosable. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Bible says nothing\/nothing can ever separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I can say, if I gave a three-word testimony, it would be: \u201cThe anchor holds.\u201d And that anchor is identified in Hebrews 6:19; it says about Jesus: \u201cWe have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s a good word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Thank you, Ron; so good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I have to think that some of you have been profoundly touched by what Ron Hutchcraft has shared with Dave and Ann Wilson today, talking about loss, and grief, and about hope\/our need for hope. In fact, Ron has written a book called <em>Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking: Finding God\u2019s Presence in Your Pain<\/em>. It comes out of his personal story that he shared with us but, also, his faithful walk with Christ for decades. Many of you can quickly identify someone you know, who has been through a profound season of grief. Maybe you\u2019d like to give them a copy of this book as a gift. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re making Ron\u2019s book available this week to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners who can support this ministry with a donation of any amount. Your financial support helps us advance the work of FamilyLife to reach more people, more often, with practical biblical help and hope for their marriages and for their families. When you make a donation to support that ongoing work today, you can request your copy of Ron Hutchcraft\u2019s book, <em>Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking<\/em>. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to make a donation; or you can call to donate at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-358-6329; that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about how you cling to Christ when the cause of your heartache is something in your marriage. When you\u2019ve lost hope for your marriage, how do you hang onto Jesus in the midst of that? Dave and Ann Wilson will have that conversation with Ron Hutchcraft tomorrow. I hope you can be with us for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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