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...
When Things Go Wrong – He Knows
When things go wrong, are you quick to yell, “I’m under attack”, as if this were something unplanned? As if something is coming upon you suddenly and without the notice of God? I certainly do. But, if God knew all things before the foundation of the earth,...
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