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CONFESSIONS OF A LIKELY WIDOW

A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith

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Chronic Illness is a Thief

G was chronically ill for over a decade. Really, starting in 2008 we began dealing with quickly worsening, scary health situations. He...

Signs of God's Love

Too often we think that blessings are a sign of God's love for us. Falling in love, marriage, having babies, being healthy, growing old,...

Rough Day

Today was rough. So many emotions. So tired of everything and every day being so hard. It hit me at the cardiologist this morning that I...

DNA

Tomorrow the DNA test kit should arrive. It's a 50% chance that P inherited ARVD/C from G - the genetic condition that caused his first...

What is a Tragedy?

Is G's life a tragedy? His story is one of abuse as a young child by the very people who should've protected him. Of painful years of...

Celebrating G

I've been having this really strong need to celebrate G lately. I think part of it comes from looking at old pictures. I've found...

A Severe Mercy

My counselor reminded me yet again that G's death was a severe mercy. In my grief and longing to see him again, it's easy to forget just...

Am I Blessed?

About a month ago I tried to go to my online Bible study. I thought it would be encouraging to see the other women and hear Truth from...

Shaky Hands

This morning I was reading my devotional off my phone and I noticed that my left hand was shaking. It felt really odd and uncomfortable....

2 Months

Today is the 2 month anniversary of G's death. Yesterday I finally was able to back through some of the emails that were sent between me...

Regret

Regret is hard. Looking back at the day G died, the week G died, the months before G died, I wish I could change some of the things I...

Burning in My Chest

Every night I look at pictures. Starting in 2007 (the ones on this computer), I've been going through - adding them to special memory...

It's Hard to Care

Grief affects everything. I am usually very moved by the people around me - caring about their struggles, sympathetic to their worries,...

One Month

This morning is one month since G died. One month since I woke up to find he was already awake - he was having such trouble sleeping...

Starting out

It's been more than 10 years since I was ushered into a community that I never meant to be a part of - a community of women who live...

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