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Discussions in Grief: Feeling Robbed
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
My daughter, Kinley, entered this world at 27 1/2 weeks, trimming three months off my pregnancy. She lived 44 days, cutting a lifetime off her life.
I felt robbed—robbed of my pregnancy, robbed of my daughter, and robbed of all the memories we would have made together.
It wasn't enough ...
In the Word: A Future That Won’t Be Ruined
Welcome to Hope Mommies’ In the Word devotionals. It is our desire that this series will aid you in getting in the Bible for yourself and discovering the joy that comes from hearing from God through the pages of His Word.
"to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,"
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We as believers were included in Christ's last will (John 17:22). That means that with Him, we will inherit new bodies that can never die and a new environment that will not be governed by the effects of sin—like sorrow, tragedy, and pain. According to 1 Peter 1:23, our earthly faith came from the seed that will ...
Cliche Comforts: “Time Heals All Wounds”
When loved ones see us in the depths of our pain, they want to give us hope to cling to. They often attempt to do so by offering us words they think may be comforting. One of the most common of these sayings is, “Time heals all wounds.” They expect to be planting seeds of hope for the future in our hearts, but most often those words hurt more than help. From my experience, this saying not only hurts but also rings untrue.
In the early days of grief after my daughter Ginny was stillborn, time seemed to be so hugely empty. It somehow felt loud how empty time was. What were we supposed to be doing? What do we normally do? Time seemed to slow down to ...
Comfort For Hope Siblings: God Is Always With You
One of the hardest things we, as Hope Moms, have to do after loss is try to reconcile how a good God can let bad things happen. Trying to help our Hope Siblings understand such a hard reality is equally, if not more, difficult. But it is vital we parent our children through the hardship of loss with God’s truth.
Last weekend I was at a church service and we sang a song with these lyrics:
And all my life You have been faithful And all my life You have been so, so good With every breath that I am able Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God
I stood there singing those words between two of my girls who are Hope Siblings. As I sang the words, I ...
Ask the Blog Team: What Would You Say to a Mom Who is Feeling Either “Too Sad” or “Not Sad Enough” in Her Grief?
Welcome to our Q+A series, Ask the Blog Team. In this series, the Hope Mommies blog team joins together to answer questions that are commonly asked in grief. If there is a question or topic that you have wrestled with in your grief that you would like the opportunity to see how other Hope Moms have processed or answered, we would love to hear from you. You can submit your questions here.
Your sadness will wax and wane. Thankfully, we do get relief from the burden of sadness. When you have days that you aren't feeling sad "enough", I recommend asking God and yourself...why? Was there something in the Word or in life that helped me not feel ...
Cliche Comforts: “The Lord Doesn’t Give You More Than You Can Handle”
As grieving parents, I am sure all of us have encountered someone who tried to comfort us with a cliche that was probably not very comforting at all. Death makes people nervous. Especially a baby’s death in a culture that does not always recognize the value of children (at any age in the womb or out).
At least in my experience, I have noticed that people do not know what to say to a grieving parent—or they do not always think through what they are saying. It is very easy to offer a cliche comfort or make a comment with no real substance to a grieving parent. I say it is easy because when I come into contact with someone else who is suffering in ...
In the Word: Hope Lives
Welcome to Hope Mommies’ In the Word devotionals. It is our desire that this series will aid you in getting in the Bible for yourself and discovering the joy that comes from hearing from God through the pages of His Word.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”
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Living. What we have is a living hope. It is based on the two solid truths of the living Word of God (1 Pet. 1:23), and the living Stone (1 Pet. 2:4-5), who is Christ. As surely as Christ rose from the ...
A Great Love
Through [Christ] we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:2-5
Our hearts are prone to ignore, discredit, and even forget the greatest love in the word. It is a love of so great a measure that we could never define or fully comprehend it. We forget that God pursues us, cares for ...
