Jane’s Story: Steadfast Love in Tragedy

This is Jane’s story. And this is a story about love.

You see, even in the midst of tragic events and dark moments, some things will never happen in this life.

Never.

“You’re going to have to explain this to me. I don’t understand why this happened.”

One of the many pleas spoken to me following the death of a young woman in our church.

Jane’s Story

Jane was only twenty-eight, leaving behind a husband and three small children including an infant boy born only days before.

Explain it? How? I mourned and grieved myself. And I struggled to make sense of it. So many people loved Jane.

Earlier that day my husband, Mike, pastor of our church, sent a troubling text to my phone. “Pray! Doing chest compressions on Jane.” I went numb.

In ICU and on a ventilator, Jane’s Bilateral Pneumonia and weak heart made her critical.

A sick feeling came over me. And I paced in my home office, praying out loud. Tearful. Calling out again to the Lord to spare Jane’s life.

Also, I quickly forwarded the text to many friends and people in our church family who had been praying, visiting the hospital, and sitting with Jane’s husband, Trey.

The News Came

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