Tag: Childloss
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When People Move On
I belong to two online Christian faith-based bereaved parents’ groups. One has more than 2000 members and one has nearly 8000. Those numbers are staggering to me. And, of course, there are many more grieving parents who aren’t comfortable sharing their vulnerability with strangers. My heart breaks for all of us. I wish no one…
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How I’m Doing So Far
Two weeks ago I posted some of my journaling from just three months after my daughter died. Today I’m posting some words I wrote a week or into the second year of living without her. I want you to know that many grieving parents say the second year is harder in some ways than the…
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Let Us Rejoice (Really?)
On the first anniversary of my daughter’s death, I woke up to the verse of the day on my phone being Psalm 118:24. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 I was stunned for a moment and then I prayed between sobs, “really God?…
A Light for My Path 