by Donna Berger | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured Grief, Uncategorized
This week, my husband John and I were remembering back on the time after my first husband, Gerry, and our children, Dawn, Stephen, and Michael lost their lives in a fiery car crash. John related how my therapist asked him, “how does she not hate God?” When tragedies... by Donna Berger | May 8, 2021 | Featured Grief, Uncategorized
It’s hard to hear the answer to prayer through the background noise of our tears and the desperation of loss. But it is not to say that God is absent in the tragedies of life. In my experience, He works faithfully and powerfully even when the heart cannot feel it... by Donna Berger | Aug 4, 2018 | Grief
by Donna Berger When Tia Coleman got on the Branson Duck Boat two weeks ago with her ten family members, she never dreamed she would be only one of two members of the Coleman family to survive the trip. It was a heart-breaking tragedy for everyone involved, but I... by Donna Berger | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Where was God?” In the aftermath of the Parkland school tragedy, this question has been asked over and over in print, on television and on the internet. There have even been t-shirts printed up with a “Where was God?” logo. Our culture increasingly subjects God to... by Donna Berger | Nov 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Psalm 55:17 says, “Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress, and the LORD hears my voice.” And, 1 Thessalonians 5:17 reminds us to, “Never stop praying.” So, when I read comments after the Texas Church tragedy that said, “Enough with the ‘thoughts and prayers...