Ellie Holcomb Instagram – It has been a HEAVY season for us and our people. We have been walking through the valley of the shadow of death in ways I never hoped we would be. It never feels right when the life of a child is taken early. Cancer is a thief, and for all of our days, we’ll be missing our precious cousin Bailey, who took her last breath at just nine years old. Our desperate prayers for healing didn’t get answered the way I would have hoped. I’ve got questions. We’ll all walk around with a Bailey sized hole in our hearts, and the world is darker without her light shining here on the earth. This month is heavy for Nashville as well, as we just crossed over the 4th anniversary of the tornado that devastated so many March 3rd of 2020. There have been other storms that have wreaked havoc since as well. And then, as March 27th approaches, we remember the senseless loss of the lives of our precious kids and teachers at the Covenant School. I want to weep just writing it all out. Being human just absolutely breaks your heart wide open a lot of days. Nothing will bring back those precious people, and nothing will ever be the same for those families and communities that lost so much. Death stings. I know that we sing songs that chant triumphantly, “Oh death! Where is your sting?” But I am here to report that the sting of death is alive and well in my own bones, in my soul, and in the hearts of any human who has lost someone they love. I’m raw and it hurts still. I just want to be clear about that. Continue in comments.