268. Grieving the Life You Thought You’d Have - with Wendell Hutchins

I Like Birds Podcast · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 1m

Grieving the life you thought you’d have hits differently when your wife is still beside you.

Some days, she doesn’t remember she even has a husband.

Pastor Wendell Hutchins spent decades preaching, building businesses, and serving people. He and his wife Ann had plans for the years ahead. Then Alzheimer’s changed those plans.

I wanted to know how he talks to God about that. How he handles the grief, the guilt, and the daily responsibility of caring for someone he loves when he can’t fix what’s happening.

We talk about marriage when “for better or worse” becomes your everyday life.

Then…