Grief & healing
When The One Who Gave You Away is Gone
Today I have been married 9 years to my best friend.
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Honest stories about faith, grief, prayer, and the beautifully messy seasons of life. Take your time. There’s a little encouragement here for you.
19 stories
Prayer & reflection
A New Chapter of The Prayer Journal
Recently I have regained inspiration to pursue writing to God in a prayer journal, and just journaling in general.
Grief & healing
Why We Need to Normalize Grief and Sadness
How do we normalize something when it’s clear there is “no such thing as normal”?
Grief & healing
What Not to Say and Do to a Grieving Person
Author’s disclaimer: This topic is written strictly from a Biblical Christian point of view.
Grief & healing
How to Bless a Grieving Person
In my last post I shared about what not to do and say to a person who is grieving; this post details ideas of how to bless and not stress the grieving.
Grief & healing
Why It’s Okay to be Fragile
In a world that tells women that they need to be strong, independent and busy, there is hardly any room for fragility. Being delicate and nearing a broken state is something that is to be avoided,…
Faith & trust
A Coffee Drinking Israelite
“Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not…
Faith & trust
Let the Waves Wash Over You
I would love to spend time on a beach again, as it has been years since I have. There are few things more relaxing than hearing the sound of the waves hitting the shoreline, and then…
Faith & trust
Is God Like a Gumball Machine?
The giant glass globe of wonder: the bubble gum machine.
Grief & healing
Rocking in Grief
Grief is truly an odd beast.
Grief & healing
Good God and Good Grief?
Before the age of 35, I had only attended three funerals. The first two` I was between 7 and 10 years old, with the third funeral taking place when I was around 17. Two were for…
Faith & trust
Longing
How is it that life can seem to go by so fast, and yet seem to take forever, all at the same time? It kind of reminds me of some of those sci-fi movies that Jeremy…
Faith & trust
Embracing Sovereignty
God is God, and I am not.
Faith & trust
Surrendering The Good
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”.
Seasons of life
And They Still Baked Bread
“Wash on Monday Iron on Tuesday Mend on Wednesday Market on Thursday Clean on Friday Bake on Saturday Rest on Sunday.”
Seasons of life
Why Christian Women Should be Able to Rest
Being in the throes of “Gods plan, not mine” is an expected reality in the life of a Christian.
Grief & healing
Thoughts on Feelings
“I have a lot of feelings about this.”
Grief & healing
Lonely Leaders, “Old Souls” and Trauma
As a young teenager, I can remember my mom saying the following statement:
Grief & healing
The Pilgrim Grief Ambush
They say that no one type of person grieves in the same way. What they don’t tell you is how to identify grief. I suppose the reason for this is because grieving is an isolating experience…
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