Episode 94: 21 Gifts: Finding God in the Grief You Never Asked For with Author Raewyn Elsegood

At This Table - Taste and See His Goodness · Oct 8, 2026 · 49m

What do you do when life hands you an “unwanted package”—a loss you never chose, a heartbreak you can’t undo, and a future that suddenly looks nothing like you imagined?

In this tender and deeply hope-filled conversation, Shelly Brown and Heather Rider sit down with Australian author and chaplain Raewyn Elsegood, whose daughter Amy was diagnosed at just eighteen with severe aplastic anemia and passed away seven months later at nineteen. But Raewyn’s story—and her book, 21 Gifts: A Sacred Dance Through Grief and Healing—is about far more than loss. It is about the remarkable life Amy lived…