Accepting the Gifts
All of life is grace. Yesterday, I was walking to my car after meeting with a student on campus and feeling happy. The sun was shining....
A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith
A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith
All of life is grace. Yesterday, I was walking to my car after meeting with a student on campus and feeling happy. The sun was shining....
Yesterday I was talking to a friend about fear. Fears that I have for the future - for any changes that I might make. I look back and I...
Psalm 139 has been a favorite of mine since college - maybe even high school. In those years as I struggled with my identity, this Psalm...
(written 2/10/22 - posted late) Yesterday was triggering. HW let me know that his kids won't be returning to the same school that they...
The Middle: Audrey Assad Hey Don't write yourself off yet It's only in your head you feel left out Or looked down on Just try your best...
"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...
I realized today that I still have to live one day at a time. That God's will unfolds one day at a time. His leading happens one day at...
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....
I have felt so lost this year. I don't want to glamorize or simplify what life was like when G was alive, because the truth is that life...
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...
My counselor told me about a saying her daughter uses: "Follow the breadcrumbs". The breadcrumbs that are the slow unveiling of your life...
In just over 3 hours, it will be a new year. 2022. G wasn't alive for 2021 and I remember hating that we were entering into a year in...
The family leaves and the loneliness returns. I am searching for something - someone- to take away the loneliness. P isn't the answer. ...
I made it to the other side of yesterday. By God's grace alone I lived through another day that I never would've thought was possible...
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...
It's been almost 1 year since G died. I have so many mixed emotions and so many confused thoughts. On one hand, this has felt like the...
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...
I've been distracting myself lately. Day dreaming about a future that could be. Imagining myself in a new relationship. Rescued in a...