faith / Grief / Grief Support / Thanksgiving / Widowhood

What Does it Mean to be Blessed?

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Are we really blessed? In our culture, we tend to think of blessings as: But Jesus said, blessed are: Those last 5 are not exactly blessings I would choose. But […]

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 […]

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: […]

Grief Support

My Story: When God Calls You to a Ministry of Suffering

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Follow this link: https://youtu.be/4nuMJyAQ3do?si=xW-2IQySpX3JXEGl

Grief / Grief Support / Parenting / Solo Parenting / Widowhood

Walking A Tightrope with Jesus

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Sometimes this life is less like a valley walk and more like pushing a wheelbarrow-full of loved ones on a tightrope over the valley. Although I’ve never actually walked a […]

But God / cancer / faith / Grief / Merchandise / Resources / Widowhood

Terminal? But God…

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Two-year cancer checkup = another clean bill of health 🙌🏻 However… That isn’t why I’m wearing this shirt today. I recently re-released this “God Can” shirt in honor of my […]

cancer / faith / Grief / Widowhood

God Can

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Exactly one year and a day after the death of my husband, I had the first of three surgeries to remove cancer from my body. More specifically, I underwent a […]

cancer / faith / Grief / Trauma

And Then Came Cancer

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Exactly one year and one day from the death of my beloved husband, I had the first of three surgeries to remove cancer from my body. More specifically, a double […]

cancer / Child Loss / faith / Grief / Widowhood

God Can, But What If He Doesn’t?

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What if …I don’t get a happy ending?…This pain doesn’t go away?…He answers my prayers with “No?”…Life never looks like I hoped?…I lose again? I know God can—but what. if. […]

cancer / child loss / faith / Grief

I Can’t Do This, It Hurts Too Much

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“I can’t do this! It hurts too much.” I remember looking up at my husband with pleading eyes and saying these words. And he looked down at me with compassion […]