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What Consumes You?
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post called “When Grief Consumes Us.” I am often drawn to Lamentations 3, verses 22-23: Because of the Lord’s great comfort, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentations…
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At Bay
I am not a superstitious person. I don’t believe in signs or symbols or talismans. Sure, I’ll wish someone good luck if they are entering a contest or competing in a game. But, it’s just encouragement. I don’t think my saying it has an effect on the outcome. I believe it’s good practice to be…
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The Hole
This Thursday, April 11th will be seven years since my daughter went to Heaven. For those who are new to my blog posts, Rachel died in a traffic accident on a beautiful spring morning on her way to work. We don’t know for sure, but based on comments from another driver, she may have been confused…
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Already
By the time this post publishes, it will be the Monday after Easter. Many of my devotionals and Bible readings during this Lenten season have been about the events leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection. Three of the gospels, Matthew, John, and Luke tell the Easter story. But, Matthew describes something that neither of…
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Both
One of the devotionals I read each morning is Our Daily Bread. (Just an aside: I remember my grandparents getting the little monthly booklets in the mail. It has been around since 1938. I read it via the app on my phone. My grandparents would be happy that I subscribe and amazed at the technology.)…
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Ten Thousand
I’ve written several times about the two online bereaved parent groups I belong to. They are wonderful places to share questions, concerns, blessings, experiences, and any and every emotion you may have as a parent who has lost a child. The people in the group range in age. Everyone’s child loss experience is different, but…
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Sticking Point
I like to think that I have some original thoughts in my head. Especially when it comes to my writing. But, truthfully most of my post ideas come from something I’ve read or something someone else has said or done. I do try to always give attribution. And, while I wish that what I have…
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Shift
One of my devotional readings this month is based on a book by Oswald Chambers called Peace – Life in the Spirit. A statement that really spoke to me says: When God begins His work in us He does not make a mighty difference in our external lives, but He shifts the center of our confidence.…
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Comfort Zone
My now-adult niece and nephew attended a Christian school their whole K-12 years. Each year, the rising seniors would go on a mission trip during the summer to a Central American country. A school tradition was that several days into the mission, each student was given a letter that had been written to them by…
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Love
In Matthew chapter 22, a group of Pharisees tried to trip Jesus up in his knowledge of Jewish law as spoken by God to Moses and documented in the Torah. They asked Jesus what was the single greatest commandment in the law. Jesus immediately responded that the first and greatest commandment is to “love the…