Episode 65: Living in Holy Saturday: Grief, Faith, and Waiting on God After Loss with Kristin Hernandez and Jennie Parks
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Kristin Hernandez and Jennie Parks discuss the experience of grief and faith during Holy Saturday, emphasizing the importance of waiting and trusting God after loss.
In this episode, Kristin Hernandez and Jennie Parks come together for a tender conversation about Holy Saturday, the often overlooked day between the cross and the resurrection. They explore what it means to live in the in between, where prayers feel unanswered, hope feels distant, and God seems quiet. Drawing from Scripture and their own stories of pregnancy and infant loss, Jennie and Kristin speak honestly about the tension of trusting a faithful God while carrying deep sorrow. They reflect on how Holy Saturday mirrors the experience of so many grieving mothers and how to hold onto God's promises in a story that feels unbearably broken. When our babies die, we are living in the waiting. We know what is coming, but we have not yet seen it. In that tension, faith is not the absence of grief. It is trusting God in the middle of what has not yet been made new. This episode gently reminds Hope Moms that waiting is not wasted, silence is not abandonment, and faith does not require rushing toward joy. For the mom who feels stuck in the middle of the story, this conversation offers permission to stay, to breathe, and to trust that God is still at work, even when nothing seems to be…
More episodes of Hope Mommies Podcast - Gospel Hope for Grieving Moms
- Episode 67: Mother's Day After Loss: A conversation for the grieving mom whose baby is in heaven with Kelly Ransdell, Brooke Schuelke, and Jennie Parks
- Episode 66: When God Writes a Different Story Trusting God Through Infertility, Recurrent Loss, and Unmet Expectations with Julie Fowler
- Episode 64: How Can I Trust God Again After My Baby Died? with Kristin Hernandez and Jennie Parks
- Episode 63: By His Wounds, We Are Healed: Trauma, Loss, and Healing in Christ with Kelly Ransdell
- Episode 62: From Isolation to Intimacy: Experiencing Christ's nearness in grief, walking through a life-limiting diagnosis, and holding fast to eternal hope with Sam Fischer of Mother of Wilde
- Episode 61: Fighting Grief's Lies with God's Truth with Brooke Schuelke, Kelly Ransdell, and Kristin Hernandez
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