231: You Can’t Compare When It Comes to Child Loss

We can get very frustrated (even angry) when someone tries to compare their loss to our loss of the death of our child. No one can possibly know the suffocating pit it hurls you into, unless you have found yourself in that same pit of child loss. There is another comparison that can frustrate us, and it is one we can make among each other – if not out loud, then sometimes silently. In today’s episode, Laura focuses on us as pareavors, and how our comparisons cannot only hurt others, but keep us in our own cycle of grief.   Links Mentioned in this episode: Click here to go to the GPS Hope store and look at the various Hold On Pain Eases shirts. Find out more about Umbrella Ministries.   Birthdays: Aaliyah Henderson was born on October 1 and she is forever 4. Joshua Konaszewski was born on October 2 and is forever 24. Paul Meyer was born on October 4 and is forever 29.   If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information. The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here. Remember to Hold On Pain Eases; there is HOPE! www.gpshope.org   To have Laura come and minister at your event, contact us at [email protected]. Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose. It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgment in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.