Megan’s Story
January 23, 2019 started with a mix of pure excitement and a little bit of fear. My husband and I had taken the day off work and he brought me strawberries and cream for breakfast in bed. Afterwards, we got up to go to the anatomy ultrasound for our first baby. We sat together in the exam room, so excited to see our little one moving and to find out if we were having a girl or a boy.
“It’s a girl!” the tech announced, and we knew she was our Adelynn Claire. We moved to the waiting room and studied the scans, imagining the excitement our family would feel ...
Yet I Will Praise You: The Weeping Prophet
History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley.
The moment my husband and I found out we were expecting our fourth child, my mind instantly began to imagine what life as a family of six would look like. Baby names began to run circles in my ...
Grieving with Children: Remembering Together
For those who have experienced the loss of a child following the birth of other children, it can be so hard to navigate your own grief while also shepherding the thoughts, feelings, and reactions of your other children. This week on the blog, Hope Mom, Calli Williams, is sharing her experience on helping her children grieve with hope.
Walking alongside my children as they have been given the roles of grieving siblings has been one of the hardest parts of my own personal grief journey. But it has also been the most rewarding. They have taught me and my ...
In the Word: Finding True Rest
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.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.-Matthew 11:29
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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 ...
Filled Unto the Fullness of God
“That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19
One phrase in the passage immediately brings question and skepticism for me: “that you may be filled ...
Grieving with Children: Looking to Jesus
For those who have experienced the loss of a child following the birth of other children, it can be so hard to navigate your own grief while also shepherding the thoughts, feelings, and reactions of your other children. Calli Williams is sharing her experience on helping her children grieve with hope.
As Hope Mommies, God gives us the beautiful ability to lean into Him while He turns our ashes into beauty. Our response to the trials we face in losing a child is a walking testimony to turn others towards Him—especially those closest to us.
While journeying ...
Evie’s Story
August 28, 2019.
The day my life changed. Again.
This was the day I was the first to know a new person existed. The day I knew I was a mommy again. It only took a moment for me to register the results on the pregnancy test and have so many thoughts flash through my head. “I’m having a baby! Who will this child be? Boy or girl? Blond hair or brown? Blue eyes or brown eyes? Your sisters will be so excited to know you’re on your way! Your daddy will be so proud!” I was bubbling after telling Peter and blurted out, “Let’s tell the family!” I’d felt ...
You Will Lack No Good Thing
God’s Word is filled with rich promises for His children. How do these “precious and very great promises” inform and direct your grief? How does keeping your eyes fixed on these truths anchor your hope in the Lord? In this series, we write about how God, through the promises in His Word, comforts and strengthens us in our sorrow.
In the days following my miscarriage and the subsequent loss of my precious son Max, there was nothing I longed for more fervently than my child. I sat in an empty nursery staring at an empty crib with empty arms wrapped ...
Grieving with Children: Understanding Their Emotions
For those who have experienced the loss of a child following the birth of other children, it can be so hard to navigate your own grief while also shepherding the thoughts, feelings, and reactions of your other children. Calli Williams is sharing her experience on helping her children grieve with hope.
The day my husband and I received the devastating news that our daughter had passed at 20 weeks gestation, and after being carried out of the doctor’s office and into my car, something hit me. We had to go home, and we had to tell our children. Our children had ...
In the Word: His Word Gives Sweet Wisdom
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.
“I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.”-Psalm 119:99-100
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Neither position nor age is the determinant or giver of wisdom. If you have met someone after loss who has blessed your soul with his or her wisdom—w...
