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Ep 7 - Reimagine After Loss

Ep 7 - Reimagine After Loss

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Have you ever had one of those quiet moments… Not a dramatic, crying-on-the-floor moment… Just a quiet afternoon, in the middle of doing absolutely nothing, And this little thought floats through your mind… "what's ahead for me?" Not said out loud. Not even fully formed. Just… there. Like a question you're almost afraid to ask because you're not sure you're ready for the answer. Well — if that's ever been you… You are exactly where you need to be today. Because that quiet question? It's not hopelessness. That's the beginning of reimagining. 💛 INTRO Hi y'all, welcome back to Grief Relief for Christian Women. I'm Patty — and if you're new here, welcome. I am so glad you found this little podcast. Pull up a chair. Grab your coffee. Or your tea. And you don't even have to take notes because you can come back and listen as often as you need! Today we are talking about the third R in our grief framework: Reimagine. And before we go one step further, I want to say something I need you to hear before your brain starts doing that thing where it talks you out of everything good: Reimagining does not mean forgetting. It does not mean you've moved on. It does not mean you love him less. It does not mean your grief wasn't real or deep or valid. (I read once that the deeper your love was- the harder the grief is.) Reimagining means you are slowly, gently, sometimes reluctantly… allowing yourself to believe that there is still more ahead. That God is not done with your story. That the last chapter has not been written. And that is not a betrayal of who you lost — it is an act of faith. Let's pray before we dive in. 🙏 PRAYER Father, thank You for every woman listening right now. You know exactly where she is. Lord, give us vision again today. Not all at once — Just enough. Just enough light to see that our lives still hold purpose. Just enough hope to believe that You are not finished with us. Help every woman here trust that the story you started in her is still being written — and that the pages ahead are filled with more than she can currently imagine. We trust You with what we cannot yet see. In Jesus' name — Amen. 🧠 MAIN TEACHING Okay, let's talk about reimagining — because I want to be real with you about how this actually happened for me. It did not look like some beautiful sunrise moment where I stood on a hilltop and felt the wind in my hair and suddenly knew my purpose. (That is not grief. That is a movie trailer.) Reimagining, for me, was small. Very small. It was tiny little thoughts that I almost dismissed because they felt so strange, but hopeful at the same time. Not one or the other, but both. Because that's exactly what reimagining is in the early stages. It's not a clean, confident, kind of hope. It's a quiet, "I'm not sure I believe this yet, but I'm not shutting the door" kind of hope. And hey, that is enough. That is more than enough. Let me tell you how my very first “reimagining my future” went. Remember back in Episode 6 when I told you I discovered I didn’t actually want the barn house and land Ralph and I bought together… so I sold it? Well, the next step in that journey was trying to reimagine where I wanted to live next. I was still working at the time, and I loved my job, so I needed to stay in the area, but where and in what? Rent or buy? House or condo? I couldn't make up my mind, nor was I in the mood to figure it out. Oh, btw, the ability to make any decisions at all, let alone life-changing decisions, at this point in my grief, was gone. I couldn't make a decision for my life! But here’s the thing: by the time the house closed and the new owners moved in, I had absolutely zero idea what came next. So I sat down with my son — Ryan — and shared this wild little idea I had: “What if I used the money from selling the house to buy a run-down place… and flip it?” Now, Ryan had to be involved because he has a degree in architecture, works with contractors every day, and has basically been in the building industry since birth — his dad was a licensed plumber, so that boy grew up with blueprints in one hand and tools in the other. I imagined we’d find a cute little fixer-upper that just needed some cosmetic updates… paint, floors, maybe a new kitchen faucet — you know, EASY stuff. We’d flip it, make a little money, and move on. Well… I didn’t imagine big enough. But God did. He already knew the plan. Ryan ended up becoming the general contractor for our first flip. And let me just say — the house we bought wasn’t just “run-down.” It was unlivable. He had to level the foundation — and if you know anything about remodeling, you KNOW you pray there are no foundation issues. Well… this house missed that memo. Then he tore it down to the studs, added on another 1,200 square feet, and between the permit delays, scheduling issues, and then COVID hitting… what should’ve taken six months turned into a year and a ...
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