An Ordinary Morning in Texas It was June 2021. We had moved from Seattle to Tennessee in the middle of the pandemic. After months of screens and isolation, I was finally going somewhere. I was going to see people. In person! The National Religious Broadcasters...
How does fall arrive in your heart? I love fall, but out here in Tennessee, the stores have been decorated for fall and selling fall decor since August, when school went back in session, and that is a little too early for me. I have not started with the “Happy Fall,...
The Last First Day I won’t forget that September morning in 2021. A text came in from my youngest son. I opened it to see him standing in front of his college apartment, holding a sign: Last First Day of School. My last child.His last first day. And there it was—that...
Will My Loved One Be Forgotten? The Question So Many Carry This is one of the deepest fears carried by those who have lost a loved one—especially a child.Not always spoken out loud… but always present. Will they be forgotten? It’s the quiet ache behind legacy...
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…...
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...
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