This content was created by Betsy Guerra. This content was uploaded by Betsy Guerra. This is a YouTube video titled "Strength in Faith" created on July 31, 2019, featuring Betsy Guerra sharing a personal story about overcoming a family tragedy through faith and resilience, and how she chose to honor her daughter through positivity and service.
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Before I tell you my mantra, I have to tell you where I came from. Four years ago, I experienced the most difficult times of my life when we were at a family gathering in the pool and my daughter, who was 3 at the time, almost 3, had an accident. And I spent the entire time, ever since I got her from the water till the moment we're in the hospital, praying and praying and praying. And I had unwavering faith and I was so sure that everything was going to be okay because my faith was just incredible. She was going to be fine. Everything was perfect for her to be fine. I had a doctor in my house who gave her CPR. The hospital was minutes away. The 911, the ambulance came immediately. It was just perfect and she was going to be fine. Anything. And I believe it wholeheartedly. So with my daughter, I remember at some point when it first happened, I didn't think I could be happy again. And my husband and I were sitting in our walk in closet with our priest, who was our spiritual director at the time. And we asked him, are we going to be happy again? Because we were the happiest family on earth. We really were. And we were like, you've seen this before. Can we be happy again? And he said, well, some people are happy again and other people are unable to move on, and they're not. And we were like, what's the difference? How can we be the people that are able to continue their lives and be fulfilled and happy? And he said, the people that don't move on are the people that think that love is measured by tears. So the more you love, the more you have to suffer for your child who you lost. And I remember thinking, I adore my daughter, but I am not going to honor her through tears. I'm going to honor her through smiles, through giving, through service. I'm very visual. So I imagined her like a little angel looking down on me and being so sad because I was crying so hard. And I just couldn't stand the thought of her being sad and. And grieving because mommy couldn't move on and Mommy couldn't understand. She was okay and she was happy. So when I took that into consideration and I realized that I can do anything, I decided to do things, to do things to honor my daughter, to do things, to be happy again and to act on it. And because I believed it wholeheartedly that I can do anything, I can be, I want anything. Then I started doing things. And doing things means well. First, I have my pity party because I believe that we have to honor the way we feel, and we have to welcome the emotions. And that's the psychology in me. I would allow myself to be sad, to cry, to be in bed and have a hard time getting out of it, to have my days of just grieving. And then after I had my pity party, which had an expiration time, I wouldn't let myself go on for too long. After I had my pity party, which had an expiration time, I wouldn't let myself go on for too long. Then I was like, okay, I'm ready. It's incredible. So although I went through a lot of pain, incredible blessing for my family, it's kept us together. Together. It strengthened it. And there's something really special about us. Very special. And like I always say, we are VIP in heaven, so we get whatever we want.
