Joe Robison (1)
“My father died at the age of 32, with cirrhosis of the liver, from a life of acute alcoholism. I was ten years old. Then my mother, who had been a pharmaceutical drug addict most of her life (and in and out of Milledgeville State Hospital), died less than two years later, at 33; I was 12.”
Dot McGinnis
“My hell began in 1971, when my father died. I was nineteen years old at the time. It was the first time death had ever touched our family, and we were all devastated. I didn't realize then exactly how devastated I really was; or that this was to be just the beginning of what was to become a horrible nightmare for me.”
Debra McFarland
“When I was in the 11th grade of school, my fragile world became even more shattered. My father had been in the hospital for some time… ‘Your father is dead’.… I fell over on the floor. The pain was just too much for me to bear. All I could do was ask, ‘Why Jesus, why?’ I loved my dad so much.”
Caspar McCloud
“With my career going the way it was, a lot of people would think I was in the midst of fulfilling the American dream, but in actuality, it was a very stressful time in my life. My mother had died from cancer and then my father was murdered shortly thereafter. Little did I know that it would all take its toll on me some years later.”
Chris Hansen (1)
“My experience told me that the dead stayed that way. I had vivid memories of standing at my mother’s graveside as clods of dirt fell heavily and finally on the top of her casket! Wasn’t that my final destination?”
Michael Main
“A few days earlier my mother had been in a car wreck, a month before my father had died of a heart attack. My mother spent several days in that medical limbo between life and death and I spent every hour of every one of those days in Hell.”
Kader
“Later I learned that my mother died. I was very close to her and could not accept her sudden departure from my life. Having lost my mother and having failed in other areas of my life, I was hurting, miserable, tired and fed up. I wanted to end my life.”
Christine Uwizera Coleman
“…what I feared most came upon me and what I dreaded befell on me. Both parents died of sickness, first my father, then my mother (in 1984 and in 1985).”
Graham Lucas
“I blamed God for everything that had gone wrong in my life. This included blaming Him for taking my father away from me when I was two years old. I also blamed God for my mother being killed by a train accident in 1986. This was just the start of telling God what I thought of Him.”
Shanon Elisha
“Seeing the emotional state my parents were in (due to burying their problems with each other) caused me to withdraw from them and escape into a pretend world in my mind. I was running and escaping from the reality of life just as they were. I was so tormented…”
Abdelrahman
“…my father (a high-ranking officer) died in a car accident, which we assumed was a natural accident. So, I kept carrying on with my life, and because I had inherited from my father a good fortune, I was able to do a lot of wicked things…”
Stan Borley
“Although both my parents and several others I had been close to had died, I had never allowed myself to experience grief. But now, in sobriety without any anesthetic, my heart was finally broken and I felt the full impact of my losses.”
Darrell Anderson
“My father was shot and killed when my mother was two months pregnant with me... Even though God is powerful enough to save anyone in an instant, it usually does not happen that way.”
Mike Ramirez
“When I was eight years old, my dad died as a result of leukemia. I remember as I cried in the hospital room that a comforting thought came to me with an assurance that although my dad had just died, ‘God would be my Father.’”
Randall Berens
“Six years later my marriage and my career were both headed south. My mother was dying and I was depressed. Chasing after happiness and success was not working.”
Lesley Pyle (1)
“Growing up, I had lost my father to suicide when I was 13. My mom raised three kids on a modest income… The other powerful lesson I learned during this time in my life is that God wants to be more in my life than just a couple of hours on Sunday morning… My life has been forever changed by His love, guidance, comfort, peace and presence.”
Tim Greenwood/Peter Masonis
“Following the death of my father from cancer, I discovered the growth of cancer on my scalp just above my hairline… Have you ever been head over heels in love and did something silly. This is how I felt. I am head over heels in love with my savior and HEALER—The Lord Jesus Christ.”
Paul Nzau
“I was one and a half years old when my mum passed away due to witchcraft at home… We serve a wonderful God and I lack words to express my thanks for his love towards me.”
AJ Johnson
“When I was about ten, my father had a heart-attack… It turns out, he didn't make it.”