The Heart Recipient’s Death
She discovered the gift carried unexpected consequences
While We're Waiting® - Hope After Child Loss
Sep 2, 2026 · 55 min · 14 segments
In last week’s episode, we met Marty and Missie Durapau and heard about the loss of Missie’s 14-year-old son, Mason, after a golf cart accident on Easter Sunday in 2024. We also heard about the week…
Missie DurapauGuestJill SullivanHost
Marty DurapauGuest
Of course, you know, you see in the movies, people meet their heart recipient or their child or their loved one's heart recipient, and you get to hear the heartbeat.

And so while I'm very thankful and very grateful that I know these other recipients, and I It's just such a special gift to know them.

I found out in these last two weeks, when I mentioned about the last two weeks have been really hard on us, I found out that Mason's heart recipient passed away.

he actually passed away 28 days after he received Mason's heart, so two years ago.

So that's, you talked about wrestle or you might be talking about wrestling with God.

I feel like the Lord wasted Mason's heart, you know, honestly, and just being brutally honest.

I was like, why would you give it to somebody that old? He's not, I know that he's 67.

But in my flesh in that moment, I was just like, why? You know, I just thought he'd get, you know, a child or whatever.

I'm like, Lord, in your sovereignty, you could have stopped me from ever finding that out.

I could have just went the rest of my life thinking that he just didn't want to talk to me and I would have been okay.

Of course, you know, you see in the movies, people meet their heart recipient or their child or their loved one's heart recipient, and you get to hear the heartbeat.

And so while I'm very thankful and very grateful that I know these other recipients, and I It's just such a special gift to know them.

I found out in these last two weeks, when I mentioned about the last two weeks have been really hard on us, I found out that Mason's heart recipient passed away.

he actually passed away 28 days after he received Mason's heart, so two years ago.

So that's, you talked about wrestle or you might be talking about wrestling with God.

I feel like the Lord wasted Mason's heart, you know, honestly, and just being brutally honest.

I was like, why would you give it to somebody that old? He's not, I know that he's 67.

But in my flesh in that moment, I was just like, why? You know, I just thought he'd get, you know, a child or whatever.

I'm like, Lord, in your sovereignty, you could have stopped me from ever finding that out.

I could have just went the rest of my life thinking that he just didn't want to talk to me and I would have been okay.
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The Heart Recipient’s Death
She discovered the gift carried unexpected consequences
A Mother’s Anger At God
Grief can make even faith feel unbearable
Singing Mason Into Eternity
A final goodbye became an act of worship
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