Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Resurrection / seasons / Trauma / Widowhood

Death Gives Way to Life

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It was a sunny October afternoon when death came to visit. Once my favorite season—filled with family birthdays at apple orchards, hot pumpkin spice lattes on crisp, frosty mornings and […]

cancer / Grief Support / Poetry

The Big C

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Cancer took me by surpriseChrist knew all of my days before there was one of them Cancer deforms my bodyChrist formed my inward parts and knitted me together in my […]

Grief Support

Widow Ministry Matters!

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Did you know you can partner with The Pastor’s Widow Ministry to bring comfort and Christ-centered hope to valley-walkers around the world? Currently, Audra pours her heart into this ministry […]

Devotional / faith / Grief Support / Waiting / Widowhood / Womanhood

Scattered Seeds

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I sometimes struggle with the feeling that my current ministry is just throwing seed to the wind and never seeing any of the fruit it might bear. That can be […]

devotional / Grief / Post-Traumatic Growth / Prolonged Grief Disorder / Widowhood

Four Years Faithful

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This blog is four years old today—born out of one of the darkest valleys of my life. If these birth-pangs were measurable, they’d certainly be a 10 on the Richter […]

Devotional / Grief / Grief Support / Widowhood

Mercy Met Me There

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Four years ago, today, I stood in a hospital corridor, begging God for the life of this man. There are no words sufficient to describe what my whole being was […]

cancer / Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Widowhood / Womanhood

Irreparably Broken

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Do you feel irreparably broken? A few minutes of watching the news or scrolling social media reminds me that I don’t hold a monopoly on brokenness. There is pain, devastation […]

devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Surrender / Waiting / Widowhood

When Will You Surrender?

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Two years ago, I’m sitting on the third row, just before worship on a Sunday morning—pretty discouraged and praying for clarity—when God hits me between the eyes with this question: […]