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Tag: grief
Lift Up Your Sorrows
Come lift up your sorrows and offer your pain. Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. There in your wilderness, He’s waiting for you to worship Him with your wounds – for He’s wounded, too. Michael Card Christmas can be difficult when you’re grieving. We know it should be a time of family and… Continue reading Lift Up Your Sorrows
To El Salvador with Compassion: God’s Faithfulness in Death
Merriam-Webster defines compassion this way: sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it Momma Heidi had it in spades. I recently shared with you a corner of my mom's heart that I stumbled upon in one of her journals - her desire to serve God by serving children in need. Though… Continue reading To El Salvador with Compassion: God’s Faithfulness in Death
To the World in a Box: God’s Faithfulness in Death
So there I was, holding Mom’s journal and weeping because she had written this beautiful desire (and more than written on the pages of a journal, it was written on the tenderness of her heart) to minister to children in poverty. And it broke my heart that such a desire was left unsatisfied. Years ago,… Continue reading To the World in a Box: God’s Faithfulness in Death
How to Split a Journal Twelve Ways: God’s Faithfulness in Death
Sometimes my mother’s passing still lurches me into sudden panic, like catching my shoe on the carpet. I flail. Even after I find my footing again, it takes a moment for my heart to remember that everything is alright and I still know how to walk. The process of going through my mom’s things has… Continue reading How to Split a Journal Twelve Ways: God’s Faithfulness in Death