Tag: Childloss
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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…
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Seven Years Later
The last two weeks I’ve talked about a hurricane and subsequent flood that we experienced in September of 2017. It was just five months after our younger daughter died in a car accident. Our 30-year-old, newlywed, moving-up-in-her-career, headstrong, sarcastic, kind-hearted, Jesus-loving daughter whose future we were looking forward to sharing. It felt like God was…
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After the Deluge
Last week I wrote about the hurricane we experienced over Labor Day weekend 2017. After the storm passed and everyone in the neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief that we had come out relatively unscathed, folks started pitching in clearing driveways, hauling branches off fences and roofs, and making room in fridges and freezers for…
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Weathering the Storm
We are in the middle of hurricane season here in the southeast US. My husband and I are pretty used to prepping for storms. He was born and raised in Florida and I’ve lived here 34 years. Still, we never take for granted the unpredictability of a hurricane, despite the interactive weather maps with cones…
A Light for My Path 