Trusting God with a Life You Didn’t Choose

by Janet Miller | Oct 12, 2026 | Daily Strength, Faith Struggles, God’s Comfort, Honest Emotions, Podcast Episode, Scripture Promises

Nobody chooses this. If you’d been handed a menu of lives, “lose my child to suicide” would never have been on it. And yet here we are — living a life we didn’t choose, serving a God we still believe is good. Trusting God after loss isn’t...

Learning to Hear God Again After Silence

by Janet Miller | Oct 12, 2026 | Faith Struggles, Honest Emotions, Podcast Episode, Prayer & Lament

Have you ever prayed and heard… nothing? Not a whisper, not a nudge, just silence so loud it hurts your ears? After loss, a lot of moms tell me they feel like God went quiet. The prayers that used to feel like conversation now feel like talking to an empty room....

When the Shock Is Gone, But the Questions Remain

by Janet Miller | Oct 12, 2026 | Faith Struggles, Honest Emotions, Podcast Episode

This is where it all started — the very first episode of Testimony Through Tears. When you lose a child to suicide, the first days and weeks are a blur of shock. People are around, meals show up, and your heart is just trying to survive the next hour. But then the...

Faithful and Still Wounded

by Janet Miller | Oct 12, 2026 | Daily Strength, Faith Struggles, Honest Emotions, Podcast Episode, Prayer & Lament

Can I tell you something nobody says out loud in church? You can be faithful… and still be wounded. Somewhere along the way, a lot of us picked up the idea that strong faith means you’re fine. That if you really trusted God, the grief wouldn’t still...

Grief Is Not a Lack of Faith: Debunking the Myth

by Janet Miller | Oct 6, 2026 | Faith Struggles, Honest Emotions, Podcast Episode, Prayer & Lament, Raw Grief, Scripture Promises

Let’s bust a myth that’s hurt more grieving moms than I can count: the idea that if your faith were stronger, your grief would be smaller. Somebody, somewhere, decided that tears mean doubt and sorrow means spiritual weakness. So moms sit in church feeling like...

What Moms Wish the Church Knew About Suicide Loss

by Janet Miller | Oct 6, 2026 | Community Support, Faith Struggles, Podcast Episode, Serving Others

This one’s for the church folks — pastors, women’s ministry leaders, Sunday school teachers, and every well-meaning believer who’s ever thought, “I want to help, but I have no idea what to do.” Here’s what grieving moms wish you knew: we don’t need you to have...