I feel like you’ve been silent even though I know you’re here.I know you’ve never left me, but I cannot feel you near.I don’t know why I’m doubting when I’ve […]
cancer / Grief / Sermon
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Who Is My Neighbor?
Who is my neighbor? This season of profound grief has made me take a new look at some old Scriptures. One of those passages is a story Jesus told in […]
Anorexia / Grief / Parenting
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I Choose Faith
Three years ago, I was sitting in a hospital room, in the middle of a miscarriage, facing the very real possibility that we were about to lose our fourteen-year-old to […]
Grief
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Do the Next Thing
I have long loved Elisabeth Elliott, but recently she has become somewhat of a hero of mine. Widowed on the mission field, she continued on with the calling God had […]
devotional / Grief
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An Early Retirement
“Why would God take someone like Jeremy, who was doing so much for Him instead of someone like me, who isn’t doing anything?” I was asked this question in the […]
Building Bridges
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Fully Known, Fully Loved
When someone knows everything about you — your flaws, your idiosyncrasies, your weaknesses — yet loves you completely with zero reservations; that is an invaluable gift. But like many gifts, […]
Building Bridges
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Valentine’s Day Without Him
Today was Valentine’s Day. I knew it was going to be a hard “first,” so I’ve been keeping myself busy so I didn’t have to think too much about a […]
Building Bridges
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Gotcha Day
Today is Gotcha Day for my family! Twenty-two years ago, Jeremy and I made a life-changing decision to give a forever family to two boys, born to someone else. And […]
Grief
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Bountiful Provision
As you can imagine, it breaks my heart that my girls have had their childhood innocence stolen by loss. Sometimes I think I grieve their loss even more than I […]
Grief
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Is God Still Good?
I first wrote these words several years ago, in the wake of an agonizing miscarriage. I’ve added to the script several times since then. Each time, after a new dimension […]
Grief
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Phantom Pain
My cousin lost three fingers from his right hand when he was a teenager. Many years later, he still suffered with phantom pain. Phantom pain is pain that feels like […]