This season can be so hard for many people. Instead of the presence of more joy, people may feel in greater magnitude the absence of someone they love, happiness and peace. Loneliness is highlighted by the large amount of family time and vacation and hearts can feel so broken and left out.
When You Can’t Change Your Circumstances
We have all had those days when everything feels like it’s going wrong. Relationships that were once solid now seem fragile, finances feel extra tight, schedules become overwhelming and it seems like our world is starting to fall in on us. We start to focus more on how difficult our life has become and the weariness we are feeling with …
The Road Between Joy and Sorrow
The road between sorrow and joy is well worn in our home. The vehicle of our hearts go back and forth on that well traveled plain full of bumps, valleys, beauty and streams in the desert. Enjoying what’s here but remembering what had to be missing to bring us here. There is a hole that is always missing, a place …
The Call of the Fatherless
God wrote the great story of your life before you ever took your first breath into this world. He knew you would be born into a family with a loving parents who were crazy about each other and you. He knew that your daddy would only be part of your life for a short time but would be part of …
Worship Through Loss
It is easy to declare “God is good” when you are on the mountaintop of life, however, when you are in life’s deepest valley, is it as easy to “taste and see that He is good?” Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Psalm 34:8 Every single one of us …
God is Greater than Grief
Grief, it feels like a life-altering sickness that throbs with pain so deep you think you may die. It’s something that will always bear a deep scar, will never be forgotten or ignored. But God is greater than grief. He promises to bind up our deep wounds and heal broken hearts. He never said he would remove it all together …
Holding Onto Hope
Hope- it’s what we live for and breath in. Hope- it’s what gets us up in the morning, when our bodies just want to give up and never see the light of day again. Hope- it’s what takes my thoughts from the grass beside my husband’s grave that imagines my grave and on it “she died from a broken heart” …
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