94 results for tag: Lianna

Feed Your Soul: Where Can I Find Rest? {The Godhead & The Father}

In grief, nothing seems to be what it used to be; even something as simple as sitting feels different. One day, I walked down the staircase in my home to sit in the corner of the basement where I could be physically lowest and most removed from the world that had seemed to go on without me. As I sat, my body had the odd sensation of continually traveling lower. Sitting was more like sinking. I felt that I was being lowered, though I was not moving. As this was happening, I could also feel my heart pounding even though I was attempting to rest. Every strong pulse sent me a perceived level lower into the ground, the subbasement, the ...

Feed Your Soul: God Are You Silent? {Bible}

Have you tasted anything sweet in your soul after loss? Has there been anything since your baby went to heaven that has bolstered you beyond words? Maybe you have had a taste of heaven like never before because you now have a child there. Or maybe you have found a taste of fellowship like never before through connecting with other mothers who have stories of faith through loss. I hope that you have had the opportunity to taste something sweet. What I hope we can see today is that Scripture is sweetness to our souls. Consider Psalm 119:103: “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” SWEET DESPITE OTHER ...

Lianna’s Story

My doctors told me that they would allow me to go two weeks past my due date while I waited for my daughter to come naturally. On the last possible day prior to my scheduled induction, I went into labor at home—yes, finally! We called the doctor and went to the hospital. The contractions were still mild, but my husband rolled me into the hospital in a wheel chair. We were familiar with the hospital. Since I was past 40 weeks, I had already done three non-stress tests and an extra ultrasound there—in fact, one test was just the previous night. The nurses gave us my favorite room, the large corner one. I changed into the gown I had purchased to wear ...

Book Review: C.S. Lewis’ “A Grief Observed”

All griefs are different.   When I first started to read Lewis’ A Grief Observed, I was perhaps two weeks, at most, into grieving my stillborn daughter, Noelle. Stillborn -- I hate that it is a necessary word to describe something that happens in this world.  And there are more words and phrases that I hate along with it that have become a necessary addition to my everyday repertoire since working more closely with Hope Mommies, miscarriage and infant loss among them.   I do not write that bitterly.  I write it truthfully (and humbly for that matter, considering the sin of my own human race brought death into this world). ...