Amanda’s Virtual Retreat Experience
When I first heard about the Hope Mommies Retreat, I wasn’t in the best place due to losing my twins. I basically brushed off the idea of attending. I did not sign up right away. I didn’t know anyone attending. This was way out of my comfort zone, so my feelings about it were hesitant and uncertain. Was this going to be a group of women trying to be overly positive when I didn’t feel positive at all?
Close to the end of registration, it was as if God was tugging at my heart saying, “Look, you’re at the bottom right now. You only can go up from here, ...
Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Job
Why do bad things happen to good people? This is a question I think everyone has struggled with at some point. Suffering just doesn't make sense. You try so hard to live a good life, and you are rewarded with heartache. We deserve more. We deserve better. Don't we? Let's take a look at a man who could relate to injustice.
Job is described as "blameless and upright; [he] feared God and shunned evil" (Job 1:1). He was "the greatest man among all the people of the East" (1:3). Here we have a good guy, a great guy—the greatest guy. Job lived a prosper...
In the Word: The Source of Our 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.
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:28
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There is only one God, the One whose nature, attributes, and character are revealed in the Bible.
There is only one God who is capable of rushing His people into His presence at death. There is only one God who created ...
Our Infinite God
God has invited us to be captivated by the greatness of His character and what we believe about God has the greatest potential to shape our suffering. Although we will never be able to thoroughly grasp the fullness of His glory on this side of eternity, He has given us glimpses of His glory in the revelation of His Word. In this series, we will dive into ten attributes of God and discover what hope they offer us in our sorrow and how knowing and believing these truths about who God is can provide great comfort in the midst of grief.
As a sinful person, I am ...
Freedom from Guilt and Shame
I remember so vividly the look on the doctors face the day he told me and my husband that our unborn daughter would not live. He just kept shaking his head while looking at the ultrasound, repeating softly, “I’m so sorry. She just will not survive.”
The first seeds of guilt began to take root in my heart as we drove home from that appointment. It was subtle in the beginning, more of a whispering question. “Was it something I did?”
Over the coming months though, it began to creep deeper and deeper into my heart as I continued to carry my daughter, ...
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 ...
