04. When Hope is Deferred

The Iman Diaries

This podcast will not help you go back to being the person you were before experiencing loss. Most people associate grief and loss with only the death of a loved one. Yes, that is true. And it is big. But I’m also here to remind you that other losses can cause a disturbance to your sense of self and a significant change in your worldview. When you go through loss, for better or for worse, you change. You’re never the same person.

I propose to you that grief, sorrow, and loss, including love, are also about grieving for yourself not just for the ones you lost. Why? Because grief changes you and it changes your world. Here’s another truth, while it is hard to see it while you are in the thick of grieving, that super typhoon of grief did not destroy everything. As I said, the loss left an aftermath of damage, but it did not destroy everything.

Welcome to The Iman Diaries, your sanctuary for exploration and introspection about life, loss, and love, helping you find clarity and perhaps meaning and purpose despite it.

If you go through life seemingly stuck in the middle, in the liminal between where you have been and where you want to be, on the threshold of an unsettled season and in a place where you can’t go back and you can’t stay here - wherever here is for you - but you also don’t know where to go. This podcast is for you.

If you are experiencing loss or have experienced sorrow in all its depth, shapes, and form - whether it is losing your faith, your hope, your dreams, your relationships, your loved one passed away, or you’re about ready to give up on life, listen in.

If you want to love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength, love others, and learn self-compassion in the middle of all these, then you are in the right place.