Meet Brittany / A Widow’s Story

What a gift today to introduce you to Brittany Price. I discovered Brittany after she commented on an Instagram feed I was following. The more I learned about her, the more inspired I was. I knew immediately I wanted to introduce her to y’all. {You can follow her on Instagram here, and read her blog here.)

Brittany is a young mom of three boys – same stage of life I am in. One day, her precious, healthy husband suddenly passed away. His heart went out of rhythm, and he died.

Out of the clear blue, she became a widow, with three children, including a three-month-old baby.

It is absolutely heartbreaking to read her story. To picture the little boys crying and waiting for a daddy who will never come home. Because my little ones love their Daddy so so much, I cannot imagine the depth of sorrow in having to tell them they will never see him again.

Brittany does not gloss over the pain and heartbreak of being a widow and single mother to three young boys. It is painful to see it, to read it, to be snapped out of my day-to-day and imagine for a second the kind of heartbreak that this family is dealing with. I am often brought to tears. I’m not a crier. To be honest, typically I don’t follow people like this. It’s just too painful for me, too much a trigger for my own fears and anxieties.

But Brittany – she is an inspiration.

She is positive, she is grateful, she is thankful, she is continually pointing us to God.

She is an absolute gift, and you need to meet her.

Let me show you, in her own words:

“So thankful that He lived for the glory of God and with intentionality so that his legacy will live beyond death. Can’t wait to sit down in eternity and talk about the Lord and the eternal weight of glory with my man and Jesus. My heart misses him with everything I have, but I am so thankful that we can both worship our sweet Savior, just in different locations.”

“Thankful that I had 4 years of the most incredible marriage, I would have gladly chosen that over 50 years of a marriage just getting by. What a gift it was to be loved in a way only the Lord could do…”

“So thankful to be able to call this man mine – the Lord is gracious and good in all his ways! And he blessed me abundantly when He loaned me this man. What a treasure and a gift marriage is!”

“I can just imagine you saying, ‘Baby, God answered our prayer and brought many people to salvation and glory to His name just like we prayed every night for our family to do.’ ”

I find her faith absolutely stunning.

Here are the things I am grateful to have learned as I’ve followed Brittany:

• What a blessing you are to others by focusing on the good and the positive. I am absolutely humbled, as I reflect, at how I go through some of my days grumpy about THE STUPIDEST THING. I want to be a light. I want to focus on the good. There is always the good.

If this widow of three kids can keep looking for it, can keep finding it, my goodness, cannot we all?

• Treasure your husband. I have to admit that my perspective on my husband has changed quite a bit since “meeting” Brittany. I definitely took him for granted. It’s so easy (for me at least) to assume he will be there forever, and reduce our relationship to an exchange of chores and to-dos and just get frustrated about silly things. Brittany has helped me to not take for granted every. single. day. that my husband greets me and my children with a smile.

None of us are granted even tomorrow. What a gift this mom is giving to her children – teaching them to look to their heavenly Father, seeking joy in the face of pain, and being GRATEFUL for what is.

Brittany, you are absolutely an inspiration, and one of my heroes.

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