I Wish You Knew: Speak Their Name
Often in our grief, those closest to us do not know how to comfort and encourage us. Sometimes they stay away or don’t say anything at all because they are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. In this series, we hope to better equip those around us to come alongside a grieving mother—to enter their hurt and offer hope and encouragement, or simply grieve with them.
People often don’t know how to comfort a mom who has lost a baby. They aren’t sure what to say or how to say it, so they often don’t say anything. In the early months after my loss, I had ...
When God’s Plan is Different Than Mine
The first time I experienced the heartbreaking loss of a child, I was completely stunned. After having three beautiful and easy pregnancies, I had arrived at my doctor appointment feeling invincible. But as soon as I heard that my little one’s heart was no longer beating inside of me, I was forever stripped of the innocent and naive bliss of pregnancy.
I clung to the Lord with every ounce of my aching heart. I spent hours at a time saturating myself in His Word, and laying my brokenness at His feet. I knew that God was good, and that He would carry me through this ...
In the Word: The God Who Raises the Dead
Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be meditating on 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. As we study the truths found in these verses together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God's Word each week with us!
“Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.
But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead."
2 Corinthians ...
You Know God, Who is Enough
“…If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the ...
Fulfilled in God’s Purposes
After months of doctor appointments, countless ultrasounds, and many tests, we could no longer deny my son’s diagnosis. It seemed his life would be short, and the doctors didn’t offer much hope for his situation to change. I knew my God was bigger than any doctor or chromosome issue. I prayed like I had never prayed before. I begged God to spare my son. He had already taken several of my babies home to heaven, and I wanted Him to grant me this one request. Late one night, when I awoke from a dream, I sensed God telling me in the silent darkness that He had other plans ...
Increased Reliance
Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be meditating on 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. As we study the truths found in these verses together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God's Word each week with us!
“ Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. ” 2 Corinthians ...
Growing in Grief With Your Spouse
It was just a month or so after our first daughter had passed away and my husband went out for some fun with a buddy of his. I was a bit aghast at the thought. How could he go out and have “fun” when we had just lost our daughter? For much of the initial weeks after her death our grief had been quite similar. We had shed many tears together, felt each other’s pain and it seemed were navigating grief in the same ways.
Until we weren’t.
And simply because my husband’s expression of grief was different than mine, I thought my husband had stopped grieving. I ...
You Know the Way
“…And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me…” John 14:4-6
Jesus assures the disciples that they know the way to glory. For, they know Him.
Thomas is concerned here that there is a pathway He doesn’t know about. His fear underlies a concern we can have: we do not know how to deliver ourselves to glory. How do we get there? This has to be one of the most ...
In the Word: Despairing of Life
Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be meditating on 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. As we study the truths found in these verses together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God's Word each week with us!
“For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia.
For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we ...
Wait Upon God For Your Reward
My friends, there is one temptation in suffering that I want to warn you of. It is a warning straight from the pages of the holy Scriptures—straight from the breath of God:
Do not think that when you are suffering, your righteousness now means nothing.
Job’s Righteous Life
Job knew he was a righteous and blameless man before God—not that he was without any sin, but that he always looked to God for restoration and always sought to do what was right before the Lord. His wisdom was sought after at the city meetings. He treated the poor and oppressed with generosity ...
