Personal loss: a father's death, lost babies, and Gethsemane
The grief discussion turns personal. A host addressed on-air as Dan (speaker-1) recounts praying for his father dying of cancer and asking 'Where was God in that?'; another host tells of his own father's death four-plus years ago shattering his 'fake faith' built on sand; the hosts share the devastation of losing two babies and the clumsy comfort of 'Job style Christians.' They land on Jesus in Gethsemane - 'not as I will, but as you will' - and this life as a mist and vapor against eternity, with the streets of gold waiting.
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