Monday marks seven years since Bronner Burgess, the 2-year-old son of famed radio host Rick Burgess, tragically drowned in the family’s swimming pool.
Burgess spent a segment of the Alabama-based, nationally-syndicated Rick & Bubba Show today looking back over the past seven years, and considering what’s next for his family and the program.
Burgess said that his wife, Sherri, recently finished writing a book that has been five years in the making and lays out what she has learned through the grieving process. They have not yet decided when and how to release it, but have begun sharing it with potential publishers.
But the message that Burgess most wanted to convey was that Bronner’s story is much bigger than the tragedy itself. It’s the story of God’s faithfulness.
The full segment can be viewed in the video above and one of the most stirring parts can be found below.
This is God’s story, it’s not just Bronner’s story… If you go back to that day and I could put it in a nutshell, there was a time when a little boy stood next to a pool and the angels of the Lord… could have absolutely stopped him from stepping or falling — or whatever he did — into that pool. And the demons were there, too, and they said, ‘We’re going to kill the boy and these people are going to turn on You. They may never go back on the air again. This show will be over. This platform will be killed. They will curse Your name. They will question everything about You.’ And then the angels looked at God and God said, ‘Let it happen. I’ll be glorified.’ So when I look at what we’re supposed to do, I want to be able to look at him and say, ‘You know what? You were right… And You have been glorified by it.’…So we’ll see what goes next and what the Lord has for us. There’s tons of opportunities this year. It’s time to go back to work.
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— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 3, 2014
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