child loss / Christmas / Devotional / faith / Grief Support / Holidays / New Year / poetry / Widowhood

You Should’ve Been Here

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This is a poem I wrote to Jeremy over the past two weeks. I wanted to share it here, in hopes that it makes you feel:1) seen2) not alone in […]

Christmas / Devotional / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Holidays / Love / Widowhood

So Loved

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I know about love. I have loved, and been beautifully loved by, a good man. But, as much as he loved me, I’m absolutely certain Jeremy wouldn’t come back to […]

Advent / Christmas / devotional / Holidays

High and Holy Calling: Identifying the Lamb of God

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Like the rest of their people, they’d been waiting their whole lives for a deliverer to come—to rescue them from oppression, poverty and injustice. On this night, like every night, […]

child loss / Christmas / Grief Support / Widowhood

How Christmas Feels to the Grieving

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I suppose most would rather not think about death and loss at this time of year, but for the valley-walker, there is no escaping reality. Mistletoe mocks. Once-tinseled trees lay […]

Christmas / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Holidays / hope / Waiting

Hope Has Come: Advent

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I can think of nothing that threatens my hope more than the silence of God—endless waiting with not so much as a whisper from the One on whom my expectation […]