I once read about a mother who tragically lost a child, and every Christmas after hid in bed, leaving her husband and other children to holiday without her. I read this after the loss of our firstborn, and I felt so much empathy for this grieving mother. Traumatic loss can trigger staggering emotions on what …
Category: Encouragement
Why Our Longing for Home Never Goes Away
“Are you going home for the holidays?” This is a question I hear from some of the sweet people in our new state. We all long for home. And that sense of home can be elusive, and almost hard to recognize until it’s threatened. My relationship with the concept of home is complicated and full …
Why We Need Both Lament and Joy
Here are two true things: We must learn to be comfortable with both deep lament and deep joy. Recently, I’ve felt wounds healing and grief dimming. There is a day to lament and a day to rejoice, and this week I’m choosing to rejoice. Before I get to joy, a few words on grief. We …
Loving God and Self-Care aren’t Mutually Exclusive
To use one truth to try to dismiss another isn’t biblical, but instead, both of these truths together help us have a healthy perspective about God and ourselves.