The death of a young child is all but unthinkable for most parents today, but the Puritans of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England could expect to lose at least one child before the age of fifteen. Puritan preachers had to help parents make sense of their powerlessness in these circumstances, so they preached three specific truths. “Children are on loan from God and do not belong to us; Your young child who has died will be reunited with you; and God intends your good” (Nancy Guthrie, “...
Courage To Grieve
