Forgiveness! A Story of Murder with Joanne Carey Haid
Forgiveness! A Story of Murder with Joanne Carey Haid
It has been said that the loss of a child is the most difficult trauma that a parent can endure; a loss like no other. How can one find forgiveness in such tragedy?
As parents, we expect that our children will outlive us. We dream of the day they begin their careers, get married, and have children of their own. So when a child’s life is ended prematurely, you not only lose the child, but your entire worldview becomes shattered.
Kristine Carlson sits down with Joanne Carey Haid (author of The Other End of the Barrel) who shares her devastating experience of losing her stepson to a tragic murder.
Listen in and learn how her and her husband moved through grief together, found forgiveness and adapted to their new reality of life without their child.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
- how to adapt to life following the loss of a child
- ways to grieve as a family or with a spouse
- how to keep the memories of a lost child alive
- the spiritual gifts that grief provides