{"id":3473,"date":"2023-11-17T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:45:16","slug":"ed-and-lisa-young-are-still-able-to-praise-god-after-their-daughters-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2023\/11\/ed-and-lisa-young-are-still-able-to-praise-god-after-their-daughters-tragic-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Ed and Lisa Young Are Still Able to Praise God After Their Daughter\u2019s Tragic Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed Young and his wife, Lisa, are opening up about their grief and God\u2019s provision after their eldest daughter, LeeBeth Young, died in 2021. LeeBeth, who died at 34, had taken a wrong turn in her life, falling into alcoholism and abusing Adderall. After the couple <\/span>announced her passing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in 2021, they shared that LeeBeth had struggled with depression and had been involved in what they called a \u201ctumultuous\u201d relationship. When the relationship ended about five-and-a-half years before her death, LeeBeth admitted to her parents that she believed she might be an alcoholic. The revelation was a shock to her parents, as LeeBeth had never partied in school. The admission led to LeeBeth attending Christian counseling and AA meetings. She suffered seizures due to her alcohol use and had to be hospitalized. She was warned that binge drinking would kill her and was on the right path, according to her parents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The night of her death, Lisa was visiting with her mother when she spoke to LeeBeth on the phone. Realizing something was not right with their daughter, she told her husband to check on her. LeeBeth had apparently gone on another drinking binge and had taken Adderall. Ed took her to see her therapist and then took her to his and Lisa\u2019s home to spend the night. LeeBeth had reported feeling anxious but hadn\u2019t wanted to go to the hospital. Ed tucked her in, saying, \u201cLeeBeth, I love you.\u201d While he was working on a sermon about Isaac and Abraham, he heard a sound from the room LeeBeth was in. He found her in an emergent state after another apparent seizure. Despite Ed\u2019s son and daughter-in-law, who are paramedics, performing CPR and LeeBeth being hospitalized, she did not recover and passed away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, two years after their daughter\u2019s death, the Youngs are sharing how their family has dealt with LeeBeth\u2019s death in a book entitled, <\/span>A Path through Pain: How Faith Deepens and Joy Grows through What You Would Never Choose<\/span><\/em><\/a>. Lisa shared that it was important to be open. \u201cThis is a messy death; it\u2019s an out-of-order death. It just seems so surreal that your child would die before you do. As pastors, we have a daughter who struggled with addiction. That\u2019s a messy thing for anybody, but let alone someone who’s teaching and preaching on the goodness of God, parenting, all of those different things,\u201d she\u00a0<\/span>said<\/span><\/a>. \u201cBut the day she passed away, we came to the conclusion, which was not a difficult conclusion to make, that God doesn\u2019t waste pain. We didn\u2019t want to sugarcoat it.\u201d They shared that after it happened, they realized that despite the pain and the suddenness of the event, their hearts had been prepared to deal with pain through their faith. Ed said, \u201cPeople will say, \u2018You’re never prepared for something like this.\u2019 Lisa said, \u2018Yes,’ at first, and then she thought, \u2018No, you can prepare for this.\u2019 We are prepared because every time we have those times with God, we read His Word we talk to Him in prayer, no matter what it is. We’re just building that bank account.\u201d Their book gives four principles to help others go through the healing process. They shared that while they still grieve for their daughter, they do not grieve like those without Christ. LeeBeth had been dedicated as an infant and, although she struggled later in life, had given her life to Christ and had expressed a desire to be better on the night of her death. \u201cWe really trust [God] with eternity,\u201d said Lisa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed Young and his wife, Lisa, are opening up about their grief and God\u2019s provision after their eldest daughter, LeeBeth Young, died in 2021. LeeBeth, who died at 34, had taken a wrong turn in her life, falling into alcoholism and abusing Adderall. 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