People say: God will never give you more than you can handle.
That’s actually never found in scripture. What is found in scripture are things like:
Category: Jeb
I Am Not Alone
Talking About Made for More by Josh Baldwin
I’m talking about what the lyrics of “Made for More” meant to me as it pertains to our son’s tragic death and our future.
Ready to Forgive
One thing I had to do was definitively forgive the people who rented our house – Tony and Angel. They destroyed it – cost us $150,000 to repair it and we’re not done yet. We still have the basement to fix. Their negligence ripped us out of our life and forced a new life on …
What Parents Wished You Knew About the Grief of Losing a Child
I was added to a “Loss of a child” support group right after Jeb’s funeral. I don’t post a lot there because that’s not how I process this, but it regularly appears in my newsfeed because it’s a local group to where we used to live and I think there’s some algorithm that helps that …
Keeping Your Marriage Strong After Tragic Loss
When Jeb was killed, Gregg and I heard over and over again that the statistic was super high for divorce after child death. Actually, it’s not that high. About 16% of marriages end in divorce after the death of a child, and only about 8% say it was because of the death. So, that’s good …
The Story of What Happened to Jeb
We have intentionally kept the details of what happened to our son Johnathan Eugene Bridgeman – “Jeb” – quiet because there was an active police investigation. We felt it was better to wait until everything was finalized. Gregg found out yesterday that the investigation is closed. I feel like it’s important to share, because there …