When You Don’t Have Any “Hang In There” Left People say it all the time: "Hang in there." I know they mean well. But there have been days when I don't have any “hang” left in me. God tells me something different! He tells me over and over that He is holding...
The dress hung where she could see it every day. For months. My sister Jolene was getting married, and Annie, who was four years old, was going to be her flower girl. She had a very important job. Get the path ready for Aunt Jolene. We talked about what a very special...
One week before what would have been Annie’s 32nd birthday, I found something unexpected tucked away in her old Gmail account. It was a piece she wrote in February of 2016 while flying back to college in Walla Walla, Washington, after being home on break. What began...
Remembering What Matters I’ve been thinking about how we remember August 24—The day we lost Annie. How much it means when someone remembers.And how much it hurts when they don’t. The Three Days God Knew And now… here we are, coming up on Easter weekend—the three days...
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...
The new year has a way of making people assume things. Fresh start.Clean slate.Better days ahead. But when a new year begins after loss—or after your body, energy, or sense of safety has changed—it doesn’t feel like a beginning at all. It feels more like being asked...
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