Before I begin, I want to emphasize: *1. I am writing in the spirit of Proverbs 11:14 where it says “Where there is no counsel, the people fall; In the multitude of counselors there is safety” I am hoping to spark a discussion on a subject that has been kind of taboo. It may not…
Category: God’s truth
Choosing Rest
Exodus 33:14 NIV The Lord replied, My presence will go with you and I will give you rest Who among us really gets enough rest? I’ve been engulfed in the hustle and bustle of raising children for nearly 14 years. Rest has not been high on my list of priorities. In the midst…
Beautiful Words
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Proverbs 16:24 The knots in my stomach got a little tighter. I felt my heart breaking into teeny tiny pieces as I sat with my husband listening to the angry voice rage on and on at the other end of…
Beautiful Scars
What if I told you I had a marvelous tip for dealing with scars? If I’d have known at the beginning of this summer how many scars I’d soon acquire, it would have been discouraging. 2 years of illness and a previous major surgery and subsequent hospitalization with sepsis and staph had left me anxious,…
Between Two Camps
When I first started writing in public places, I set my heart on writing from real places about real things, real emotions, real life, hoping to focus on the blessings and finding joy in life. Lately, I’ve been accused of airing dirty laundry, of speaking before thinking and being to critical, just to name a…
New Things
Isaiah 43:19 – Behold I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. New things. For me, new means change. Sometimes “new” is welcome. Like the new blooms after a long winter. Other times…
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…