How can my heart be glad though? How can my whole being rejoice? How can I find joy now that my husband is gone? Sometimes it all feels…
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I have a tendency toward depression. I have experienced three significant times in my life when I needed to take medication to help…
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This is my favorite verse in the Psalms. “The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” The lines…
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In suffering, there is a choosing. You choose whether the Lord will be your portion and cup or if you will run after another god, another idol. There…
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Another part of being preserved came from the community of believers around us. The day Mike and I learned he had internal melanoma with a terminal …
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In January 2013, our world was rocked with a diagnosis of internal melanoma with no external site. My husband was given 6-12 months…
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In this space between, I have learned that joy and sorrow can exist side by side. You really can know and experience both at the same…
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Grief does not exempt me from sinning. I would love to have a “pass” that my sins would be overlooked because I am experiencing this…
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In this space between, some struggles come with grieving. I suspect that everyone has different struggles, but I am going to be vulnerable…
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In these five years of grieving, experiencing God’s steadfast love and recognizing evidence of the Holy Spirit working has shown me God’s…
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After Mike’s’ diagnosis of terminal cancer, we knew we were on a journey of God’s design. One of the deep truths that guided…
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It has been five years since my pastor-husband went to be with Jesus. It has been a season of reflection for me as I reached…
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How can my heart be glad though? How can my whole being rejoice? How can I find joy now that my husband is gone? Sometimes it all feels like too much. Too much suffering. Too much sadness. But then I come back to this deep truth…
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I have a tendency toward depression. I have experienced three significant times in my life when I needed to take medication to help me as I worked through times of grief. So knowing that Mike’s illness was progressing I went to see the doctor before his death and resumed the medication…
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This is my favorite verse in the Psalm. “The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” The lines in this Psalm would have been about land portions. The land would be the inheritance that God is giving King David…
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In suffering, there is a choosing. You choose whether the Lord will be your portion and cup or if you will run after another god, another idol. There are multitudes of idols we can run after when we are scared, hurting and suffering…
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Another part of being preserved came from the community of believers around us. The day Mike and I learned he had internal melanoma with a terminal diagnosis, we drove back to our home church and our place of ministry trying to process this dire information.
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In January 2013, our world was rocked with a diagnosis of internal melanoma with no external site. My husband was given 6-12 months to live by the local oncologist. We were given a referral to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa “just on the outside chance they could help”.
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