Duane “Dog The Bounty Hunter” Chapman opened up this week about his grief journey in the wake of the death of his wife Beth, who died of cancer in June of 2019.

Dog stars in the upcoming Christian film Hunter’s Creed, which is a story about keeping the faith even in the face of great personal loss.

“After losing his wife, a man reunites with his church buddies to film the hunting show they’ve always wanted to make together. Before long, he senses a dark presence in the woods eventually bringing him face to face with death — and his faith,” reads the synopsis of the film.

Dog plays himself in the movie, as he knows a thing or two about the devastating loss of losing a spouse. In an interview with Christian Post, Dog was asked if his grief over losing Beth ever made him doubt God.

“I never doubted, OK, I don’t doubt God at all!” he said. “To be surprised or to say, ‘Why is this happening to me? Why didn’t this happen?’ Yeah, that’s a normal feeling. And then you go to Scripture, and you listen to the voice in your mind that’s in your head that says, ‘This has happened for a reason.’ The Bible says you’re not to know why this stuff happened. Don’t worry, this happened for a reason. So that’s what I fall back on. Rather than ‘oh, there’s no God, He don’t heal no one,’ stuff like that, because that’s not true.”

Dog went on to talk about the importance of words.

“You have to absolutely watch what you say,” he explained. “The Bible says several times in the Bible, the hardest member of the body (men think it’s something else) to control is the tongue. For men, it ain’t that. So if you can control that tongue, you can’t say, ‘Weeds be gone and they’re gone.’ But if you have symptoms of a cold, and you say, ‘I do not feel good at all, I have really bad cold symptoms right now I’m fighting off;’ Instead of, ‘I have the worst cold I have ever had.’ That means a lot.”

“Even in the world without faith, the Bible says there are things that are a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof,” Dog continued. “A form of godliness, so even motivational speakers, most of them Christian, they teach, ‘Say things, right!’ Don’t say, ‘Oh, I could go broke overnight.’ Say, ‘I’m sure that I’ll be blessed with more money.’ So the tongue not only in the world, in the spiritual world, is the most important thing but also in the non-spiritual world, it’s also there. Everyone recognizes that.”

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This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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