An Offering of Tears; An Offering of Praise
I love to experience the cusp of a changing season. It’s such a relief to smell winter’s thaw as the ground softens and birds return to sing their sweet morning melodies. Few things are as thrilling as that first autumn chill in the air and the sight of the first leaves that harken to the coming of the holiday season’s cheer. The rhythm of change from winter to spring and summer to fall reminds me of Ecclesiastes 3: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."
As a woman who loves Jesus and yearns to see His kingdom ...
Kaitlyn’s Story
My husband, JT, and I started trying to get pregnant in March of 2020. COVID-19 quarantine had just begun and we were both working from home. I was filled with excitement at this time, dreaming of the future while equally being completely unaware of what the following months would hold. I just thought it was all so simple—a positive test leads to a healthy baby. I had never before considered the possibility of losing a baby, although I knew how common that outcome was.
Fast forward to the first week of May. I unexpectedly began to bleed eight days before my ...
Streams in the Desert {Part 3}
Quietly Attend
I love this word, “Behold.” It’s used often in the Bible. It serves as a signpost. In our language and culture, it would be like a neon sign or writing in all caps; if it were an emoji, it would be something like this: ✋❗. “Behold” is meant to make us pause. To stop and pay attention to what is about to be communicated. It had to do with quieting people in the presence of someone or some event of importance.
“Behold, your God will come…”
Truly, that is the most important event in all of history. God Himself was ...
Ask the Blog Team: How Did You Decide When to Start Trying to Conceive Again?
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.
I made it a point to never refer to another child as the rainbow after my grief. I focused on Jesus and working through the waves of my grief more than on having another child; ...
The God Who Sees Hagar
Over the next several weeks we are going to look at how God acts as El Roi, The God Who Sees, through four different biblical mommas who experienced grief and sorrow. We will look at the lives of Hagar, Hannah, Naomi and Mary and see for ourselves how God was faithful to meet them in their pain and sorrow. As we study the testimonies of these four Biblical women, our prayer is that you would know in the depths of your heart that you are seen and heard, that you would feel loved and known.
The first time I fully understood the significance of Hagar’s story, I ...
Streams in the Desert {Part 2}
Behold
The sky was slowly waking up, a pale white light rising over the horizon. The clouds shifted from darkness and became awash with color. I gripped my mug of tea a bit tighter, breathing in the mercy that was coming.
For weeks after Gwendolyn went Home, this became my routine. I would wake early (had I even slept?), steep a bag of vanilla rooibos in my travel mug, and walk through the stillness of our camp home toward the river. A new building was under construction, and I would sit on the balcony amidst the tools and sawdust, watching creation wake up ...
Jane’s Story
The sounds of my IV drip flowing, the vital signs monitor randomly beeping off and on...and worship music. It was not what I would expect to hear while lying in an emergency room bed, but my husband was playing the worship music on his phone next to me, clutching my hand so tightly in an attempt to keep me calm. I closed my eyes and desperately wanted to go back to last month. How much had changed in such a short time frame. Last month I was not in excruciating pain. Last month I wasn't constantly worrying over whether my body would go through this process naturally. ...
Hope Groups: Seeking the Lord Together in a Community That Understands Loss
Hope Groups are a made up of a group of women who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss (up to two years of age) at any point in their life. It’s a collection of women who meet and share their stories with one another, pray together, ask questions, share hurts, share happinesses, and cling to His Word to find that there is still hope after the death of their precious sons and daughters.If you are looking for a way to connect with other Hope Moms and be strengthened together through God's Word as you walk through your sorrow side by side, you can ...
Ask the Blog Team: In What Ways Have You Celebrated Your Hope Babies on Important Dates?
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.
We like to eat at “Anna’s Pizza” in town on her birthday and invite others if it is a weekend. My husband and I remember her due date together and have gone to Disney a ...
El Roi: The God Who Sees
Over the next several weeks we are going to look at how God acts as El Roi, The God Who Sees, through four different biblical mommas who experienced grief and sorrow. We will look at the lives of Hagar, Hannah, Naomi and Mary and see for ourselves how God was faithful to meet them in their pain and sorrow. As we study the testimonies of these four Biblical women, our prayer is that you would know in the depths of your heart that you are seen and heard, that you would feel loved and known.
Dear Momma,
I’ve never met you, and yet I feel like we’re kindred ...
