I am thankful for grief. Truly.Here’s why: 🥀 Grief is love. Not, “I once loved,” but rather, “I love still.” I am privileged to have had a love that was […]
Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Trauma / Widowhood
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Healing from the Inside Out
Years ago, following our baby girl’s open heart surgery, doctors were unable to close her sternum, so they sewed a patch over her incision, and sent her to the PICU. […]
Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Resurrection / seasons / Trauma / Widowhood
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Death Gives Way to Life
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
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The Big C
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
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Widow Ministry Matters!
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
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Scattered Seeds
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
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Four Years Faithful
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
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Mercy Met Me There
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
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Irreparably Broken
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
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When Will You Surrender?
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: […]
cancer / Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Trauma / Widowhood
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When Grief Rocks Your Faith
Profound grief has a way of bringing us face to face with what we actually believe about God. Often, we are surprised by our own doubt. We wrestle with the […]
child loss / Grief / Grief Support / Trauma / Widowhood
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Go Ahead and Scream
The year our daughter died, I had to stop watching the news. I remember every time there was a big news story about a tragedy, I could hardly keep the […]