I flipped the calendar a couple of days early… August is a month I would rather just keep flipping past. The page in July is already the heaviest one I turn all year. And I didn't want to see August, the month we lost Annie. Never has time moved so slowly. And yet,...
One day, I was lying in Annie’s room— the kind of ache filling my chest that makes you almost wish it would explode, just so you could have some relief. And I said out loud, “Jesus… I MISS HER SO MUCH!” And I heard Him whisper, “I miss her too.” I lay there…...
A Monday Evening Reflection It’s Monday evening, and I’m just getting home after spending about twenty-four hours caring for my two-and-a-half-year-old grand-niece. There is something about being with a toddler that resets your sense of the world. Everything feels...
Sometimes the deepest lessons about being HELD don’t come from a sermon — they come while sitting across from someone brave enough to begin again. For the past four and a half months, I’ve been volunteering one to two days a week with Project Free 2 Fly* — a program...
Sabbath has become an invitation and a practice I return to again and again. Not because I’ve mastered rest—But because grief has shown me just how much I need it. Grief doesn’t arrive gently.It comes like the weather. Like waves.Sometimes without warning, sometimes...
Milestones and holidays are always especially hard for those who have lost a loved one—especially a child. But if I’m honest, the hardest milestone for me to cross was the first New Year. This reflection was sparked by a recent conversation with a newly bereaved...
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