Grief / Parenting / Solo Parenting / Widowhood

Self-Care for the Widow and Solo Parent

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Y’all, I’m tired! I’m so tired, my tired is tired! I very nearly fell asleep driving today. My body is telling me to REST! But self-care is often the last […]

child loss / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Resources / Solo Parenting / Thoughts Journal / Widowhood / Womanhood

Leighann McCoy Podcast

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Don’t miss this podcast episode with Audra Smith, The Pastor’s Widow. She has so much to share! https://www.prayerclinic.com/podcasts/the-leighann-mccoy-podcast/episodes/2149010337

But God / child loss / faith / Grief / Parenting / Widowhood

Birth, Death and Adoption

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Exactly 8 days before our little girl went to Heaven, on February 28th, our little boy was born. We just didn’t know it yet.  God knew. He knew I’d […]

Anorexia / But God / child loss / faith / Grief / Parenting / Resources / Solo Parenting / Trauma / Widowhood / Womanhood

Anorexia vs Faith

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Not many years before we lost Jeremy, we almost lost our 14-year-old daughter. We helplessly watched as she slowly and painfully tried to take her own life. The diagnosis was […]

faith / Grief / Parenting / Widowhood

Love Bends Down

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She was exhausted. She was out of her comfort zone. She’d had enough. So, he just sat with her. For as long as it took.

Because love bends down.

Like a good earthly father sits by his struggling child—tenderly, lovingly, patiently—so our good heavenly Father stoops down to us in our need. For as long as it takes.

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cancer / Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / Parenting / Trauma / Widowhood

When God Calls You Out

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The boat was not Peter’s safe place; Jesus was.

faith / Grief / Parenting / Widowhood

Do You Look like Your Father?

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Slowly but surely, we begin to resemble those closest to us. I see it in my children the most. (Even the adopted ones.) Not only do they look like their […]

cancer / faith / Grief / Parenting / Trauma / Widowhood

Daddy’s Girl

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Our youngest was a daddy’s girl. Of the five children, she was the one who preferred Jeremy, even over me. So naturally, whenever she needed comfort, she ran to her […]

child loss / Grief / Parenting / Trauma / Widowhood

To The One Doing Hard Things

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Hey, you. The one who cried herself to sleep last nightThe one battling to get out of bed todayThe one who keeps reliving the traumaThe one who is riddled with […]

Child Loss / faith / Grief / Parenting

In God We Trust: When God Calls You to Hard Things

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In God we trust. But what does that mean? I thought I knew, but I’m learning trust at a whole new level these days. For my first 21 years, I […]

Anorexia / faith / Grief / Trauma

The Thorn: When God Doesn’t Heal the Wound

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Guest post by Kat Smith I wish this was easier; I wish God would just provide healing and escape. But maybe I won’t ever find peace on this earth. Maybe […]

child loss / Parenting

Letting Go

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I am determined to not let any of my pain get wasted. Which means, whenever I am in a trial, I do a lot of soul searching and scripture searching. […]