From Crushed and Broken to Healed and Whole
I studied her small, wrinkled hands. Their roughness testified to the fact that these eighty-five year old hands had worked hard through the years. I rubbed them gently, hoping she could feel the love flowing from my hands to hers. Glancing out the sliding glass...
The Gift of Grief: 10 steps to help us through the process
I had plans to attend a quarterly ladies’ event at church that evening. “It would be good for me to get out and be around people,” I reasoned. As I stared in my closet vacantly trying to decide what to wear, grief overtook me and the tears began to flow. There was no...
Learning and Growing from Grief
Twenty-three years – it seems like it was yesterday. Like I am dreaming. Sometimes the pain of losing her is as fresh as the day she died in my arms. The doctors were telling me I needed to go back to the hospital where I was a patient. They said I needed my rest. I...
Invitation To Dance
My husband Michael doesn’t have a retiring bone in his body. Nonetheless, after thirty-seven years of faithful service to the same agency, last year he tendered his resignation and retired on December 31st. And boy, am I excited! No more solopreneur stuff for me. No,...
Marriage and the Definition of Real Romance
One ordinary day, I trudged down the stairs from making beds and gathering laundry. I walked past day-old dirty dishes stacked on the kitchen counter while exhaling a not-so-quiet sigh. The sigh that weary mommas everywhere know too well. That's when I overheard my...
Marriage, Weathering the Storm and Stones of Fire
“And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 My husband gave me opal earrings for Christmas. They’re beautiful, but he chose them for a more significant reason. If you hold an opal to the light, flaming colors...
And Her Heart Flutters
She wears the fall of life as if it came with no burdens at all, but if you look closely, you can see places where she has weathered many hard winters. Yesterday, her daughter and granddaughter boarded a plane that would take them so far away. If she drove night and...
How to Face Winter with Hope
I pulled out the note and read it again. “Sandy, I love you so much. I pray for you. Please come to me. Please give me hope.” Oh, Sophonie, don’t you know that Jesus is your only hope? I’d considered not going back. We’d had a busy year, and I was feeling my years,...
I Gave Myself Permission To Be Bad
I knew something had to change. I wanted nothing more than to live for God and bring Him glory. I prayed for His truth to dwell in my heart and let me live with the joy of the Lord. I put great effort into my spiritual health while ignoring emotional health, not...
The Consilium Podcast, Episode 7, Deidra Riggs
Deidra is the Author of, Every Little Thing, and the founder of Jumping Tandem is our guest on The Consilium Podcast today.
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