Tag: Childloss
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Here They Come Again
Here they come again. I should be better prepared by now. This will be my 65th time I’ve celebrated them. You know, the holidays. Although I don’t really remember the first few, but there is photographic evidence that I was there for them. As a child, I was always filled with joyful anticipation of the…
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Appreciation
Last week I wrote about our rural neighborhood and our interactions with our neighbors. If you’re a frequent reader, you may have wondered what that post had to do with child loss. I’ll tell you something I’ve learned in the seven-and-a-half years since my daughter died. It’s the little things in life I’ve come to…
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Why I’m Still Here
This Thursday, the 31st will be Rachel’s birthday. It would be her 38th if she were still here on Earth; her 7th birthday spent in Heaven. I don’t know if birthdays are celebrated in Heaven. There is no passage of time in eternity. And every day is a celebration in the presence of God. But…
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Imperfect
Nobody’s perfect, right? We are all human. We know we are flawed, but it’s still so easy to compare ourselves to others and come up lacking. I mentioned in last week’s blog that I was going to be attending a retreat with some other bereaved mothers. It was even more of a blessing than I…
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What’s Your Story?
Psalm 107:2 says: “Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story.” We all have a story to tell. If you’re anywhere near my age, you’ve had some adventures, some tragedies, some comedies, some romances, some horrors, and some thrillers. Some of your stories might be reserved for certain audiences only. Also, if you’re like…
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Wait
I love to wait, don’t you? Just kidding. I’m not a very patient person. The speed at which things can typically happen now exacerbates my impatience when they are slow. Think about it: When I was a child, I was rarely allowed to call anyone long distance, especially my cousin who lived in another country.…
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Shoes
I’ve always had a thing for shoes. I get it from my mother. She always wore fashionable shoes. She had very narrow feet, so it was hard for her to find shoes that fit. There was a shoe store in a town about an hour away that she knew carried hard-to-find sizes. She checked the…
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Not Denial
I recently finished a 12-day devotional series called Hope in the Dark. It was centered around the book of Habakkuk and his response to and eventual acceptance of God’s message to him that he was going to send the Babylonians to destroy the nation of Israel. If this news wasn’t frightening enough, God expected Habakkuk…
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Hard Things
A dear friend gave me a book titled, simply, His Parables. It’s a devotional book with a lesson for each day of the year. I read it as part of my morning Bible study time. The book is divided into sections, each of which focuses on one of Jesus’s parables including supporting or related verses from…
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Vocabulary
I’m a self-confessed word nerd. As an English major, an avid reader, and a writer, words are important to me. I take pride in having a big vocabulary. I like to understand the roots and etymology of words. My husband is also an English major and a writer. His reading interests are probably wider than…
A Light for My Path 