How Long, LORD? 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 […]
Child Loss / devotional / faith / Grief / hope / Trauma / Widowhood
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Graves and Gardens
When Karissa died, Jeremy and I were newlyweds, living on a single Christian School teacher’s salary. Meaning, we didn’t have two nickels to rub together. Thankfully, my parents were gracious […]
Anorexia / But God / child loss / faith / Grief / Parenting / Resources / Solo Parenting / Trauma / Widowhood / Womanhood
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Anorexia vs Faith
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 […]
Christmas / Devotional / Grief / Widowhood
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Fear Not
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear. C.S. Lewis penned these words in 1961, and although I am not new to grief, I would concur that […]
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Is God Asking Too Much?
When Jesus asked the disciples to feed the 5000, they thought He was asking too much of them. And if it had it all depended on them, they would’ve been […]
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Job’s Story, Our Story
His grace abounds in deepest waters… We’ve come to the end of Job’s story, named after a man, but not about the man. Like every other story, this was a […]
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I Don’t Understand Him, But I Trust Him
Do you know how loved you are?! He will tend his flock like a shepherd;he will gather the lambs in his arms;he will carry them in his bosom,and gently lead […]
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When We Can’t Understand
In times when it feels like we’ve been forgotten—forsaken even—we must trust what we know to be true. He is with me.He is for me.He loves me.He is good. Thoughts […]
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God’s Plan for Suffering
My valley-walk was not wasted, for ‘twas there I met the Shepherd. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for […]
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Just Be Quiet
Walking with others through the valley of suffering is a sacred privilege. May we learn to steward it well. More thoughts from the book of Job(Job 14-16)
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God in our Suffering
One who has never suffered greatly, might be tempted to judge those who aren’t “suffering well.” Which is why I love the book of Job.Raw. Real. Relatable. Righteous.Restored. Thoughts on […]