Category: Weeping
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Favorite Things
(photo: Hannah Hope Photography) The year two wave of grief hit and it caught me a bit off guard. I found myself crying more than I had intended. The intense heartache returned with a vengeance. Grief is never an enjoyable experience but it does change. The heartache did not last as long this time but […]
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The Gift At Our Doorstep
I woke up this morning full of memories. Christmas Eve. It is a time that so many happy and joyous moments flood my mind. But this morning my mind played a trick on me. I fully expected to wake up to a phone call with the sound of my Mom’s voice over the phone, full […]
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Addressing the Poo Poo and the Importance of When “Jesus Wept”
One of the things that I have realized after going through a loss of someone so close is the natural tendency to want to get out of those dark days of sadness. And to make it worse, our “Christian” culture has sometimes made it unsafe to be grieving. Or in one way of saying it, […]