Birthdays
Today I turn 38. Greg will always be 35. These numbers feel so strange. He was always 12 days older than me. How can I now be 3 years...
A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith
A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith
Today I turn 38. Greg will always be 35. These numbers feel so strange. He was always 12 days older than me. How can I now be 3 years...
Today would be 15 years of marriage. 15 years since we said I do. I've had this song in my head by Andrew Peterson since I woke up this...
She always treated him like a grandson. He always loved her like a grandmother. Maybe it's easier when you aren't related by blood and...
Shortly after G died, I began hearing the metaphor that grief comes in waves. It recedes and comes, recedes and comes, over and over...
"No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly." - Psalm 84:11 I came across this verse this morning in my Psalms...
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." - Psalm 81:10 What am I...
My crazy heart has been all over the place this week. Absolutely shredded emotionally from grieving G's death and all that led up to it....
Looking at G's life, you wouldn't think that he had been delivered from trouble. Trouble seemed to be a present companion. Abused as a...
Otherwise known at 364 days after G died. His favorite way to refer to someone who loved Jesus dying and going to be with him was...
Thanksgiving. My first one without G since he came with me to Massachusetts in 2006. He had just had his first cardiac arrest,...
Life is about Jesus So let me hope in Him The lover of my soul Who saved me from my sin Christmas is about Jesus So let me rejoice in Him...
This morning, as I spent time reading the Psalms and listening to my favorite podcast - some new perspective came to mind that I felt I...
One of the hardest parts of grief lately is realizing that I have to let go of G. I have to let go of our relationship and the life we...
I left a meeting this morning and looked at my phone. I missed call and voicemail from my mom urging me to call her, and a text message...
6 year olds shouldn't lose their dads. Not dads so sweet and loving as G. College students shouldn't have cardiac arrests and be life...
Today is 8 months since G died. It's been 8 months since he sat across from me at the table where I am sitting now and drank a glass of...
One of the things that comes with outliving your spouse, especially at a young age like me, is the necessity to keep going. If I was 88...
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,...
Every night before bed we would say this to each other: Goodnight I love you Best friends Marry you again Keesh In the last few weeks...
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...