Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 As I scroll back through my blog, a common thread emerges. It’s that compelling “I have to write then I’ll feel better” theme. Often I have passed up the urges and still survived. LOL. However…
Category: encouragement
What if…
The past 2 1/2 years have been filled with lots of different questions and a million different emotions. I had thought that by this point in the journey that my emotional process may be different and that in some miraculous way the urges to flee from the suffocating stages of grief may have diminished. They…
That kind of friend…
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better then walking alone in the light” – Helen Kellar I’ve been in one of those darker brooding times where I contemplate life and all that entails. As I sit looking I see a mix of joy and sadness. But sometimes, it seems, the sadness and big…
2 years….Grieving Abby – Lessons I am learning in the process
Ahhh. Here I am once more. I have been contemplating this post for some time and what I would share during this grief week, our time of remembering.Because of my private fb grief blog, some of my thoughts have already been stated. There are those however that were just waiting to be spelled out here…
Faithfulness
Great is the Faithfulness O God my Father… My 3rd child is 7 today. Alexia Magdalene. Named after my mother. I can not browse through the photos of her birth and the time surrounding with out a teensy bit of sad seeping through the cracks and crevices. 2008-2009…That was a hard time. The hardest…
For Better of For Worse – Reflections on Marriage
Disclaimer: I in no way an expert on marriage. We as a couple, like many of you have walked thru some tough stuff (financial calamity, separation, death of a child, illness in family) and have found God faithful. I must write simply to get my racing thoughts out before my head explodes….Our history has brought…
Present for the Presents
I love a good play on words. Well I really just love words period. I love how much better I feel when I can simply release, get the words that are pounding on the door of my soul out into the atmosphere. Not that they are always profound or meant to change the world. But…
Amanda the Panda Family Grief Camp Weekend
Our family was recently privileged to be a part of a wonderful weekend put on by Amanda the Panda Family Grief Center. This wonderful organization was founded to help families deal with the loss of a child but has branched out over the years to include other loss as well. Our counselor, Miss Kendra (Imagine…
“Living” with Grief
“Only Grieving can release us from grief” – Joan Chittister “Going on” with “normal” life since Abby has gone is one of the most challenging things I have ever faced. What is normal? And just what exactly is the “new normal” everyone keeps referring to and how will it look for us and our newly…
My Favorite Things
In many ways we are entering one of my favorite seasons of the year. Now let me clarify. I like a few days with the pretty white fluffy stuff but then I am tooooo cold and long to fly south like the birds. Overall I do enjoy the changing of seasons. With Abby’s death this…