This season can be so hard for many people. Instead of the presence of more joy, people may feel in greater magnitude the absence of someone they love, happiness and peace.
Read MoreSometimes on days like today, I allow myself to sit and wonder. Tracing my thoughts to what feels like a little string attaching to my heart and heaven.
Read MoreEternity swept into that hospital hallway, in the midst of my anguish and sorrow. Could this be real? Is this a bad dream?
Read MoreIt’s crazier and messier than it appears. There are five hurting children who need to be loved, trained, nurtured and disciplined.
Read MoreWe have all had those days when everything feels like it’s going wrong. Relationships that were once solid now seem fragile, finances feel extra tight, schedules become overwhelming and it seems like our world is starting to fall in on us.
Read MoreSometimes in life we experience brokenness that impacts us so greatly we feel as if we are finished. The life we once dreamed about is gone and now our life is never going to come close to all we desired.
Read MoreIt’s been two years today since my world changed forever and I heard the words “we are so sorry, Patrick died.”
Read MoreThe road between sorrow and joy is well worn in our home. The vehicle of our hearts go back and forth on that well traveled plain full of bumps, valleys, beauty and streams in the desert.
Read MoreEveryone of us are faced with pain in our lives. It comes in all forms and affects us in different ways. It may be sickness, death, financial difficulties, rebellious kids or any various circumstances.
Read MoreWritten by Howard Brummel
Read MoreGrief has a way of transforming us. For me at times I felt like the fun-loving, bubbly, happy-go-lucky girl I used to be was just buried deep under grief, she was still there just underneath some pain.
Read MoreGod wrote the great story of your life before you ever took your first breath into this world. He knew you would be born into a family with a loving parents who were crazy about each other and you.
Read MoreIt is easy to declare “God is good” when you are on the mountaintop of life, however, when you are in life’s deepest valley, is it as easy to “taste and see that He is good?”
Read MoreGrief, it feels like a life-altering sickness that throbs with pain so deep you think you may die. It’s something that will always bear a deep scar, will never be forgotten or ignored.
Read MoreLast year I wrote about a very special tradition my husband and I established on Valentines day when we were dating.
Read MoreHope- it’s what we live for and breath in. Hope- it’s what gets us up in the morning, when our bodies just want to give up and never see the light of day again.
Read MoreYou knew the brokenness, pain, sorrow, hurt and sickness we would face. So you humbled yourself, the King of Heaven to come as a helpless baby to save us.
Read MoreToday you would have been 32, yet it is your second birthday in heaven. You are the most incredible man I have ever known and as I told you often, I would follow you anywhere, because you lead so well.
Read MoreMarriage is a treasure. A earthly gift that is so good, it could have only been designed by God.
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