confessionsofalikelywidow
Jan 24, 20222 min read
Lacking No Good Thing
"No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly." - Psalm 84:11 I came across this verse this morning in my Psalms...
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A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith

A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith
"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 can't go back. The life I had with G is gone. Gone. Nearly everything has changed. I'm still at the same house, but it's different...
"Analyzed afresh and repudiated my base desire to do something for God in the sight of man, rather than to be something, regardless of...
I can't stop thinking about HW. He came over yesterday to help me with a home repair, and ended up being here for 3.5 hours - with 2...
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...
I got a hair cut this week. A professional hair cut. At a salon. That cost over $100. And then I even bought the two products that...
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....
Over the past couple months - maybe longer - I've become a bit obsessed with Jim and Elisabeth Elliot. I've known of them and their...
Two minutes before a call with my boss (who thankfully is also my friend), I listened to a voice memo from my sister. It completely...
Since writing about Psalm 57 earlier this morning, I've been thinking about how it applies to G. One of the hard things when a "young"...
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...
A year ago today - actually 35 minutes from now- we buried G. I looked through pictures of that day yesterday because I honestly don't...
For years, the story of Lazarus in the Bible has stood out to me. A friend of Jesus' becomes ill - deathly ill. Jesus is a mere 20 miles...
Here I am, two days into a conference I've been to 12 times with G. And I miss.. J. There've been moments of missing G for sure. I feel...
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...