Wanda Rosseland: Helping Those Who Have Lost a Spouse

My name is Wanda Rosseland. I’m from Circle, Montana. Well, [my husband] Milton and I were together. We met in January of 1970 and we were married almost 46 years.

I drove a truck. He cut. He ran the combine. We always woke up early. Milton was always awake by 5:30. I usually tried to pretend until about 6:00, but we always got up early.

God has been with me every day since Milton died. Surprisingly, to me, he’s talked to me through the Bible. I’ll be reading the Bible and there’ll be a verse that just jumps out at you.

And another way has been through people, because God works through people. I don’t think that we understand enough how we are His workers here on this earth and one of our jobs is to show the light of God through us.

It’s astonishing to me to think of how many people lose their husbands or wives and I had always sort of been, you know, sorry for people, but I had no idea of how sorrowful and how much grief there is involved and I had no idea how much it helped to have people sympathize with you and recognize that.

And it has caused me to realize that we need to be more in tune with people who have lost their husbands or wives and be very kind to them and try to help them. I mean, if it’s taking over, you know, a plate of cookies, just calling them up, just sayin’, “Let’s go and have coffee.” These things really make a difference and really help.