We Christians like to make up a bunch of sayings to make people feel better in their grief and pain. It seems like an art that we have well mastered to sound like Truth, when it isn't Truth at all. It's not even in…
Folks on Facebook hop into this thing during the month of November and give thanks throughout the month leading up to Thanksgiving. It's fun. I've hopped on the bandwagon for a few years. I tried this year, with good intentions, but life got…
It's been a year and a month. Since the accident. In the last year and a month, we have, in no particular order: bought 27 acres, traveled to the Northeast and along the eastern seaboard and Christmas last year on the Gulf Coast, we…
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 I had a friend, whom I love dearly, and…
***I was sitting down to write down some thoughts I had been thinking about and saw this is my drafts from four years ago. I still feel the same way about the letter. Grief looks different for all of us. Death, expectations unmet, divorce,…
This is a tender subject. It's a really tough one. It's tough because I've been in the pit of being as prideful as I could in my pain, and it's a temptation to go back there. I could go back there. Quickly. I want…
These past months have tested this hashtag to the max. It really is just a hashtag, but it is also holds much truth and difficult to swallow. The day of the accident, I thought, "Jesus is enough." He is. I KNOW He is and these…