'Jesus is Alive, Olive is Alive in Him, So We Press Back and Live Fully Alive Too': Bethel Worship Leader Opens Up About Daughter's Tragic Death

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jan 8, 2020
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"I choose tender thankfulness. As for the future, as I feel the noble aching lack of her not with us for a lifetime, the better truth is I can look just beyond and know so vividly that this life is only a breath, and for all eternity, we'll be close again. Jesus bought that for us. So I choose triumphant thankfulness. And the more I do it the more I feel it." -Kalley Heiligenthal

[Faithwire.com] When prayers for resurrection first began pouring out of Redding, California, last month, many wondered how it would end if 2-year-old Olive, who had been declared dead, didn't come back to life. (Screengrab image: Instagram-itsnataliagrace)

The prayers and pleas that began in earnest in mid-December went unfulfilled in the way Bethel worship leader Kalley Heiligenthal and her husband had hoped. At the end of the month, the couple held a funeral for their young daughter.

Stepping into 2020, Heiligenthal opened up about how she is feeling as the new year begins without Olive by her side... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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