Loss … it kicks you in the gut, takes your breath away, and leaves you in what often feels like the bottom of a dark pit. Grief is hard to explain and difficult to imagine until it smacks you in the face. The shock, the pain, the regret, and the utter sorrow can lead us […]
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“Joy Comes in the Morning” by Guest Writer: Hadassah Treu
Friend, are you longing for a turnaround? We all struggled with discouragement and weariness this year. Life as we knew it has completely changed with a global pandemic, uncertainty, division and chaos. Each of us has received a share of new challenges and problems. Do you often cry out to God as I do, asking […]
“Harvesting Joy in a Season of Loss” by Guest Writer: Alison Kozlow
“The Lord will comfort Israel again and have pity on her ruins. Her desert will blossom like Eden, her barren wilderness like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found there. Songs of thanksgiving will fill the air.” Isaiah 51:3 NLT As I lowered my husband’s ashes into the ground, I felt like my faith, […]
“Mourning Becomes Morning”
The pain of watching someone leave the earth can render you helpless. Helpless because there is now the recognition and realization that at any given moment, the next breath that they take could be their last, and there is nothing you can do to change that. The emotional rollercoaster of wanting to ‘be there,’ and […]
