15/10/2026
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 – 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱
There are some stories that just stop you when you hear them. The death of three little children at the hands of their own mother is one of those. You cannot explain it away. You cannot soften it. Three young lives—Cora, Dawson, and Callan—were taken, and a father’s world was shattered in a single afternoon. That is a wound that does not heal quickly, and any of us who love the Lord have to begin by simply grieving with those who grieve.
At the same time, as the details have come out, many of us have been forced to look at something larger. Lindsay Clancy was described by her own father and by her mother-in-law as a good and loving mother. Those who knew her best spoke of her that way right up until the day everything fell apart. She had been seeking help. She had reported the dark thoughts. And then, according to the defense and the doctors who examined her afterward, she was overtaken by postpartum psychosis—a rare but devastating break in the mind that can bring delusions, voices, and a complete loss of the ability to tell right from wrong.
We have seen this kind of thing before. Families who have walked through postpartum psychosis tell the same story: the woman who did certain things was not the woman they knew. When the cloud finally lifted, she was left looking back in deep shame at what had happened through her hands. That is not an excuse. It is simply the way severe illness of the mind can work in a fallen world. Scripture never pretends that bodies and minds always stay whole. We read of kings driven mad, of prophets sitting under a broom tree wanting to die, of people whose minds were tormented. The fall touched everything—including the brain.
𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘: https://bornagainchristians.org/2026/10/15/when-the-mind-breaks-holding-truth-and-grace-in-a-broken-world/
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