Tag: grief
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A Family Restored
I love the book of Ruth. If you haven’t read it in a while I encourage you to read it (or listen to it) this week. It’s the story of a family; an unconventional one. Those are my favorite kinds of families because it looks more like mine that way. In this story, Ruth is…
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Mental Heath Care Through Grief
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal” –C.S. Lewis I grew up untouched by sorrow and unacquainted with grief. I literally grew up in a home with a white picket fence and a loving family. I was never hungry or went without necessities, and almost all of my…
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Audacious Change
I have never been good at change; small changes (like going to a differentgrocery store or taking a new route to a familiar place) to the larger scalechanges (like moving to a new country and learning a new language). Ibuck and fight and cry and lament, much to the chagrin of my saint of ahusband.…
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Bereaved Mother’s Day
by MaKenzie V. Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and some women look forward to it with excitement, some with longing, and others with dread. Growing up, Mother’s Day was only ever a celebration in our home untouched by grief or sorrow. When I became a wife and a hopeful mother, I saw the…
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