Devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support / Post-Traumatic Growth / Surrender / Widowhood

Drop Your Nets and Follow Me

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Change is hard—especially when it’s not my idea. Especially when it leads to the unknown. Especially when it means letting go. “Immediately they left their nets and followed him.” With […]

Devotional / faith / Grief / Grief Support

You Can Do Hard Things

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Sometimes, God requires us to do hard things. Really. hard. things. I don’t know about you, but I have to admit that when He called me to some of these […]

faith / Grief Support / Parenting / Widowhood

Step Out of the Boat: Overcoming Fear in Grief

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About nine months after Jeremy left for his eternal Home, a friend took us out to do some sunset tubing on the lake. My 12-yr-old had been looking forward to […]

child loss / faith / Grief / Widowhood

Walk Worthy, Because He is Worthy

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Facing 2022 was just hard. My first year without him in it. A milestone that felt more like a millstone — tied about my neck and dragging me under, as […]

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 […]

cancer / devotional / faith / Grief / Widowhood

Softer…Or Stronger

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I wish I were stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche said, “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” In many ways, that’s true. Studies have actually shown that many people who […]