Category: Getting Personal

Book Review : Loved Baby by Sarah Philpott PhD

Loved Baby ~ 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish your Child After Pregnancy Loss   Loved Baby is a dynamic new devotional giving parents who have experienced infant loss a source of hope. In this book, there is …

Five Simple Words : On Grief

When my dad passed away, I was prepared for some things. His death was a gift in the end because he suffered so. I knew the moment Jesus took his hand. It was exhilarating. As a Christian, there …

Fathers Day 2017- Another First

Father’s day is such a bittersweet day this year. It’s going to be another “first” without my sweet daddy. I know in heaven he is receiving the greatest gifts. No more pain. Jesus. Grandpa and grandma. My unborn …

The Dirty Grief Inside Me

Good Grief, Charlie Brown. Boy, Lucy was not kidding. Grief is the weirdest most constricting feeling I have ever experienced. I already had no idea what the future held for me, and once grief entered the picture, everything …

The Dirt That Lies Beneath: A series on Truth in Life, No Matter What

  The Real Dirt. I am so tired. Exhausted, really. I have a glass of iced tea right here, and I am ready to tell the truth. Sometimes, Our lives are so well polished, we don’t even have …

Just Let Me Take a Breath

Just let me take a breath, if only for a minute. Let me come to terms with all the things this world has thrown at me. Let me sit in silence and revel in the quiet. Let me …

He Could Have Said “Forget It” Instead of “It Is Done”

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. (Proverbs 27:1 NKJV) On Sunday evening I sit down with my calendar and make a list of what I have to accomplish …

The Restlessness Inside Me

ECC 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.   I sit in the church …

An Open Letter to Cancer

You have come in like a vengeance and stolen our lives. I see you, snaking you way through  our friends and family, like the serpent in the garden, tricking Eve just when she was most vulnerable and alone. …

Overcoming the Struggle to Juggle

To the women who have those days. You know what I’m talking about. The days you wake up and think “really?”. The days you know are going to be hard. You roll out of bed anyway- not having …