Lies in Grief: God Failed Me
Welcome back to our Lies in Grief series. During this series, we’ve covered lies about our bodies, our sin, our blame, our faith and our worthiness to grieve when it comes to baby loss. This final week in our series, we will tackle lies about God’s character that arise in our grief, and learn how to hold fast to His goodness when our hearts are broken.
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In previous weeks, I shared about how we can falsely conclude our sin or our prayer life are to blame for our babies’ deaths. If you are resolved that it’s not your fault your baby died, it would be ...
The Intermingling of Love and Grief
One of my favorite parts of hosting the Hope Mommies Podcast is getting to talk with women whose lives have been shaped by both deep sorrow and deep hope. This month, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jenny Burghardt to talk about her journey through stillbirth, motherhood after loss, and the gentle ways the Lord met her in the hardest places.
Jenny is the author of More Love to Pour Out, a beautiful children's book that helps families remember and talk about a baby who has died. But before there was a book, there was a mama who deeply loved her daughter, Ruthie, ...
Remembering the Heaven’s 27 One Year Later
On July 4, 2025, a historic and devastating flood swept through the Texas Hill Country. The flood claimed many lives, including 27 girls and young women who were attending and serving at a local camp, Camp Mystic. While Hope Mommies is dedicated to serving mothers who have experienced the loss of a baby, our hearts have been deeply broken by this tragedy, and we have grieved alongside the mothers of these daughters. We know the pain of losing a child, and the unimaginable loss these families have endured has left us heartbroken and praying for them.
This tragedy also ...
Lies in Grief: I Shouldn’t Be Grieving This Much
Welcome back to our Lies in Grief series. During this series, we’ve covered lies about our bodies, our sin, our blame, and our faith when it comes to baby loss. This week we will expose lies about the depth and timeline of our grief, and hear what God has to say to us wherever we are in our grief journey.
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Our Western culture is famous for sweeping uncomfortable feelings “under the rug”. It doesn’t give much permission or space for the effects of grief that slow us down, change us, or ask us to hold onto a life that was so little or short that it ...
Lies in Grief: I Should Have Prayed With More Faith
Welcome back to our Lies in Grief series. So far, we’ve covered lies about our bodies, our sin, and our blame when it comes to baby loss. This week we will expose lies about prayer and the strength of our faith in baby loss, and explore the comforting biblical truth of God’s greatness.
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Lie: I should have prayed more, I should have had more faith, and my baby would be alive.
Hope Mom, I have no doubt you have at some point begged “God, please save my baby.” Whether that request was uttered once under your breath when you knew the chances weren’t ...
Lies in Grief: I Could Have Prevented My Baby’s Death
Welcome to Part 3 of our Lies in Grief series. So far, we’ve covered lies about our bodies and our sin when it comes to baby loss. This week we will expose lies about our power and control in baby loss, and explore the comforting biblical truth of God’s sovereignty.
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Lie: I Could Have Prevented My Baby’s Death
Hope Moms,
Are you second-guessing every decision you made since the moment you learned you were with child? Are you wondering if there was something you did—or something you didn’t do—that was the cause of your baby’s death?
As we ...
Lies in Grief: God Took My Baby to Punish Me
Welcome to Part 2 of our Lies in Grief series. If you missed Part 1, you can read it HERE.
Losing a baby makes us especially vulnerable to believing lies about ourselves and God. Having to unexpectedly say goodbye to our babies breaks our hearts, creating cracks that need filling. Unless we fill those cracks with God’s healing truth, the enemy is going to fill them with his lies. Join me in exposing these lies we are believing in grief, and let us experience the balm of His truth together.
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Lie: God took my baby to punish me
This week, I’m ...
Lies in Grief: “My Body is Bad”
Friend, since becoming a Hope Mom, have the negative voices in your mind—and the ones around you—intensified? Losing a baby makes us especially vulnerable to believing lies about ourselves and God. Having to unexpectedly say goodbye to our babies breaks our hearts, creating cracks that need filling. Unless we fill those cracks with God’s healing truth, the enemy is going to fill them with his lies. This month I am going to be covering what God’s Word says to some of the common lies found in our community of Hope Moms.
We were never meant to live life alone, and ...
Mental Health Moment: Why Is It So Hard to Believe My Baby is Gone?
One of the hardest parts in the aftermath of losing a baby are constant reminders of them. Empty nurseries. Phantom kicks. A saved pregnancy test on the counter. Baby showers to cancel. Encroaching due dates. Exciting news that was never given a chance to be shared. Bodies that remind us they were once creating life, but now are not.
These reminders proclaim that there once was something to celebrate, but now they are not here, and they won’t be coming back.
(Mama, if you need to pause with that last statement and cry your eyes out, go right ahead. Death is worth ...
What hasn’t changed
Hi friend,
Thanks for being here and walking through this conversation on identity with me over the last few weeks. We’ve talked about not recognizing ourselves anymore and about who we are now. And after everything we’ve walked through together, there’s still one question that rises in light of it all.
If I’ve changed… and if I don’t fully recognize myself anymore… then what is still true?
Because when so much feels uncertain, our hearts begin searching for something steady to stand on.
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What Hasn’t Changed
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