"For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in." I feel forsaken sometimes. Alone. Forgotten maybe - but...

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...

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 P's first day of school - ever. He's been homeschooled up until now, but homeschooling isn't an option for widows (at least...

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...

Today is Wednesday and G's Memorial Service is on Saturday. 3 days. Yesterday, P and I went to our church for a final planning meeting...

G's Memorial Service is in 5 days. Last week I cried a lot just thinking about it. My grief felt so raw. The reality that he is really...

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...

Today is the 6 month anniversary of G's death. My gosh - how is that possible. I spent the last 4 weeks living at a frantic pace as I...

G understood so many things better than I do, and one of those things was walking with Jesus. Illness has a way of clarifying things -...

I had a chance to go on a walk and think for the first time in weeks. And of course I started thinking about G. Gosh have I been missing...

Today is the 5 month anniversary of G's death. I'm sitting at the table facing "his chair", the one he sat in that last morning as we...

I'm feeling stronger today. It might be from getting through April - birthday month in our house. First Easter without G, P's first...

Tomorrow is G's birthday. He would be 36. It's his first birthday in Heaven. It's his first birthday that I won't be celebrating since...

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,...

Hey Sweetie, Gosh do I miss you. I'm sitting here at the table in your chair. The chair you sat in on the morning of the day you would...

We went skiing today at the slope in my hometown. I haven't been since I was in middle school and it was P's first time. This was...

One of the crappy parts of grieving is broken promises. Today I got the hard news that UN and AA won't be moving to our town. In...

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...