🎧 Listen to Episode 6: When God Feels Distant in Grief | Trusting His Goodness in the Valley (Christian Hope After Loss) — a Christian grief podcast episode for women navigating loss, trauma, and seasons where God feels distant.

In this episode of Wildflower Hope, Johanna shares a deeply personal and faith-rooted reflection on what it looks like to stay open to the goodness of God in the middle of grief and loss.

Not when hope feels easy.

Not when the story is resolved.

But right in the middle…

where faith feels stretched…

where loss feels heavy…

and where God can sometimes feel distant.

Through personal story, Scripture, and the imagery of the garden, this episode explores the tension of holding grief and hope together… and the quiet truth that God’s goodness has not stopped pursuing us.

From Psalm 27:13 to Psalm 23, we are reminded that even when we cannot see it, God is still at work… still near… still bringing life in places that feel barren.

This episode also reflects on the story of Ruth and Naomi — a story of deep loss, honest grief, and unexpected redemption — reminding us that what feels like emptiness is not the end of the story.

If you are navigating grief, child loss, trauma, or a season where God feels distant… this episode offers a gentle place to land.

Not to fix the pain.

Not to rush healing.

But to sit in the middle…

and remember that His goodness is still pursuing you.

🌿 In this episode we explore:

• what it means to trust God when He feels distant

• Christian grief and loss after child loss

• how to stay open to God’s goodness in the valley

• the tension of grief and hope coexisting

• Psalm 27:13 and believing in God’s goodness again

• Psalm 23 and the truth that His goodness pursues us

• the story of Ruth and Naomi — from emptiness to redemption

• how God brings life in barren and broken places

🌿 About the Podcast

Wildflower Hope is a Christian grief podcast for women walking through loss, trauma, heartbreak, and wilderness seasons of faith.

Here we make space for honest lament, compassionate grief support, and the slow rediscovery of hope with God.

Because even in the wilderness of sorrow… God is still near.

🌿 Resources & Community

Wildflower Hope on Substack

https://wildflowerhope.substack.com

Wildflower Hope Soul Care

https://wildflowerhopesoulcare.com

Inside Wildflower Hope Soul Care, Johanna offers a gentle pathway for tending grief, caring for the nervous system, and learning to notice where God is present… even in the hardest places.

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