My guest today on The Full Life Podcast is Marieka Hazzard. Marieka is a young woman in her 30’s, a teacher, painter, musician, and she has a beautiful little girl named Evie. Four years ago her husband Tim passed away from a brain tumour. Marieka takes us through that journey and shows us how to hold onto hope and keep it as your anchor, no matter what life deals at you. She helps us to see that amidst the pain, God was there with them. I left this conversation feeling so honoured to have had Marieka share her story with me and I know that you’ll feel the same way. Marieka has written this beautiful song about her journey over the last four years since Tim passed away and today at the end of this conversation, I am going to play it for you. *Disclaimer: Please do not interpret Marieka’s experience in her pregnancy to be her advice to you. Please listen to your health care professionals and consider your own unique situation. “We had all of these beautiful little miracles along the way.” “Holding onto hope is the biggest thing.” “We need to have hope and hope is Jesus.”“We both coped because we had hope.” Marieka talks about how she commanded her emotions to be even and took authority over them, on her way to the hospital, enabling her to communicate and support in the way that she felt she needed to. After receiving news that Tim had passed away - “I knew God had this. And it’s crazy because even though things hadn’t worked out the way I expected it to and often things don’t work out the way we expect it to, I STILL know God has got this and I still have this confidence in that.”Talking about the moment that Marieka was in the Palliative Care room with her husband in a coma and trying to hold his unconscious body up as he vomited; “I have always had this question for God over the last four years since that moment,…I was feeling forsaken. I was feeling like he (God) wasn’t there when he was meant to be there and He showed me that he didn’t forsake me in that moment, He actually chose me for that moment and a lot of the time, we can’t see everything but God does and He never leaves us and He doesn’t forsake us because…everything Jesus went through was for us…He has never left me and I know that. It was just that He chose me for that moment. And that’s given me so much peace.”Raising Evie on her own. Her prayer is that Evie can know God as her Heavenly Father. The most powerful thing that we can do is to pray for our children. What we can do to comfort a friend or family member who has lost someone close to them: Pray for them for sleep and for peace and protection from the enemy’s schemes. Don’t avoid mentioning their loved one’s name. “The person that’s passed has been so much a part of their life. It’s hard enough to come to terms with the reality that they’re not here anymore. It’s actually better for us to talk about that person, to mention their name and to include them in the day to day conversations because they always were included before.” It’s better that they cry than you avoid anything to do with that person (who has passed)  Marieka now feels reestablished in her faith. She has learned how to bring a sacrifice of worship. “To worship when it’s easy is one thing but to choose to worship him when it’s really difficult, when you don’t feel like it, when you physically can’t do it. To choose to do it in those moments you are bringing him this greater sacrifice.” “These hard trials in life are opportunities to bring him a greater sacrifice of worship. “As soon as you do that, of course you step into his presence and all of a sudden the burden of all the trials and the hardship that’s surrounding you…it all just falls away.”Marieka’s advice to someone grieving a loved one right now is “As much as you can, comeSupport the show (http://paypal.me/thefulllifepodcast)

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