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 ...
Bright Hope: A Place to Start
Hope Mommies is excited to announce that our founder, Erin Cushman’s, new book, Bright Hope: 28 Daily Devotions for Grief in Light of the Gospel is now available for purchase! Find it at Amazon here. Bright Hope was written to give hope and encouragement to those in mourning. Centered around biblical truth, drawing on historical expressions of faith through hymns and poetry, and infused with personal experiences, Bright Hope is for anyone journeying through the lonely shadows caused by grief and toward the light of the gospel of Jesus. Today, we are sharing another ...
Gift of Hope
Today we are launching a new area of ministry at Hope Mommies: Gift of Hope. Medical bills for a baby you did not bring home, or who came home and did not stay, can be a shockingly unexpected reminder of what should have been. While we can’t change the painful reality of your circumstances, we hope to come alongside you and help ease this financial burden as you begin to face life without your dearly loved baby. Through the Gift of Hope we are offering financial assistance to help cover medical bills of babies who have died.
Read the story behind Gift of ...
Lauren’s Story
My husband and I were married on a crisp, sunny autumn day in October of 2006. As I saw my beloved standing at the altar, I knew I was walking towards my forever future. After we declared our love and commitment to each other in front of our dearest family and friends, we grinned our way up the aisle to Dean Martin singing, “Good morning life! Good morning sun! How are your skies above? Gee, it's great to be alive and in love!” As we danced up the aisle to these words, my twenty-year-old heart soared with possibilities of a beautiful future filled with sunny days and ...
Bright Hope: Endorsements (And Free Art Print!)
Hope Mommies is excited to announce that our founder, Erin Cushman’s, new book, Bright Hope: 28 Daily Devotions for Grief in Light of the Gospel is now available for purchase! Find it at Amazon here. Bright Hope was written to give hope and encouragement to those in mourning. Centered around biblical truth, drawing on historical expressions of faith through hymns and poetry, and infused with personal experiences, Bright Hope is for anyone journeying through the lonely shadows caused by grief and toward the light of the gospel of Jesus.
Endorsements
“I ...
Streams in the Desert {Part 1}
The Desert
It was a suffocating emptiness from which I couldn’t escape. The barrenness of my womb; the silence in her nursery; the bleak look in my husband’s eyes. It was everywhere. Though I was rarely left by myself in those first few days and weeks, I felt unmoored and distant from all who were around me. Life had lost it’s brilliance when her life ended.
The guttural cries of the biblical poets echoed my own:
“My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me?” -Matthew 27:46
“I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has ...
