Have you ever looked back on your life to see the evidence of God’s hand in preparing you for the future? This verse in Hebrews 11 is a definite neon…
Read MoreA young mother recently lost her child to illness. She spent many long days and nights in the hospital room by her daughter’s side before life gave way to death. Although life as she…
Read More“Sometimes it’s so hard to talk to God and to trust him when I can’t see him or feel Him.” My daughter said this to me while we lay there cuddled in her bed one night. I always take…
Read MoreHave you ever listened to the words of the song you are singing? Do you ever stop singing because you realize that you cannot truthfully sing something…
Read MoreEarly one morning during a family vacation, I walked along the ocean as the others slept in. The waves crashed on the sand, the…
Read More“If you don’t have good roots, you won’t have good fruit.” I heard my father-in-law say to my husband as they sat eating breakfast in…
Read MoreWendy and Jake’s beautiful eleven-year-old daughter, Ashley, stepped from this earth into heaven. Like a horrific, unexpected tsunami, grief shattered their hearts and…
Read MoreI would not be completely honest if I did not share some of the anger and frustration I have felt along our journey losing our daughter, Promise, through late-term miscarriage. I used…
Read MoreIt has been ONE month since we said hello and goodbye to Promise - our baby girl who was born through a miscarriage at nearly twenty-two weeks. The world has gone on, and strangely, so…
Read MoreMy mom arrived just a few moments after the intense labor and miscarriage of our daughter. She had been on the phone with my husband Jason for the past hour or so, trying to help him know how…
Read MoreAfter receiving the news that the baby growing inside me no longer had a heartbeat, and after confirming next steps with our doctor, Jason and I got a flight home…
Read MoreThe news about our little girl came just as we were finishing up a wonderful summer vacation so we were not at our home in Florida. Though that made our circumstances more…
Read MoreToday was the day! I was nearly 22 weeks pregnant with our second child and my husband, Jason, and I couldn’t wait to find out the gender of our baby. The ultrasound tech took a few quick pictures and then…
Read MoreOver the next two weeks you will hear from two women whose broken hallelujahs will encourage and inspire you though you may not have experienced the shattered hearts they.…
Read MoreAs a child, I sat with my parents and grandmother in our tiny Presbyterian church and gustily sang the old hymns. I especially.…
Read MoreAs a child, I sat with my parents and grandmother in our tiny Presbyterian church and gustily sang the old hymns. I especially.…
Read MoreThe covenantal promises of God formed a grid through which I learned to live life in the crucible of suffering. When I struggled.…
Read MoreThe prophet Habakkuk’s heart broke as he watched Babylon, the enemy of Israel, break the backs of God’s people by enslaving.…
Read MorePaul and Silas could sing a broken hallelujah because they believed in the promises of God, one of which is the promise of restoration. Their greatest.…
Read MorePaul and Silas sang at midnight because they believed in the promises of God. They believed His promises because God cannot lie. They believed.…
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