04/23/2026
A widow asked me something that stopped me in my tracks…
“How does the joy of the Lord replace the joy I had with my husband?”
And the truth is… it doesn’t.
It can’t.
What you had with him was real, sacred, and irreplaceable. There will always be a space in your heart that belongs only to him. That kind of love doesn’t get swapped out or rewritten.
But here’s what I’ve come to understand in my own journey…
God doesn’t ask you to replace that joy—
He meets you in the middle of your loss and begins to grow something new around it.
The grief may still be there.
The missing doesn’t just disappear.
But slowly… gently…
He starts leading you into a life where joy can exist again—alongside the sorrow.
Not instead of it.
But with it.
And if you’ve been feeling stuck in that place where it seems like joy is gone for good…
There is a way forward.
Comment REDEEMED or visit my website to learn more about the Redeemed Widow Roadmap—and how you can begin finding your way back to joy again.